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Wall Street itself is set to reopen this week. Downtown Manhattan real estate is too valuable, too close to the epicenter of capitalism to be abandoned. And the business of making money can be put off for only so long. So the lawyers and brokers and secretaries will go back to offices and trading floors and restaurants that are eerily close to the twisted-steel mausoleum. And they will look away whenever they can. They will come home this week with soot on their shoes, the earth and ash and dust of buildings that no longer exist...
Just as hard to soothe, though for different reasons, were the people one step away from the disaster--the tens of thousands of relatives of people missing or killed. At Manhattan's 69th Regiment Armory, family members waited in lines for hours to scan lists of victims treated at emergency rooms or identified as dead, looking for a familiar name. When they found nothing--as most did--they filled out a seven-page form describing the missing person with details that included hair color, length of fingernails and even earrings and shoes. Some brought strands of hair plucked from loved...
...McMillan was racing downtown, Michelle March, 29, an emergency medical technician, was heading into Manhattan in her ambulance. She was among the first EMTs to arrive in front of the south tower. Then hell descended, and March ran. "I noticed that the debris was picking people up and slamming them into buildings. So I grabbed a pole and held on for dear life," even as the oddments of a skyscraper struck her. "I told God, 'I'm not dying today,' so I held on no matter how many bricks were hitting me. I felt ash go down my throat...
...Manhattan, where "good" is just the name of a restaurant in Greenwich Village and "evil" is what we call the prices at the new Chanel store in SoHo, the concept of miracles seemed a little hokey until last week. A pointy-head at one of the city's universities might have said the idea of the miraculous is an old metaphor that needs demystifying...
...Jules. It's Brian. I'm on a plane that's been hijacked. It doesn't look good. I just want to tell you how much I love you." As United Flight 175 hurtled toward Manhattan, Brian Sweeney, 38, managed to tick off all the important points for his wife Julie in a message on their Cape Cod, Mass., answering machine. "I hope that I call you again. But if not, I want you to have fun. I want you to live your life. I know I'll see you someday." Eight minutes later, after Sweeney made the extemporaneous speech...