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...collapsing into a heap of flames was etched too firmly in my mind. I could not think of anything except the victims who might be underneath the rubble and their families. My girlfriend lives in New York. Many of my friends work in the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan. As I frantically dialed 212 phone numbers, the rest of the world was a distant afterthought...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, | Title: The Victims, Then and Now | 9/18/2001 | See Source »

...late Monday night, as I walked past candle-studded Union Square, I noticed suddenly that the wind had changed, and once again the air across Manhattan smelled of vigils and destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on Wall Street for Day One | 9/18/2001 | See Source »

...about 8:50 a.m., I got into a taxi on the corner of St. Mark’s Place and Third Ave. in the East Village. The taxi headed east on St. Mark’s and turned south onto Second Ave. toward Houston Street and lower Manhattan...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...taxi driver turned on the radio. The reporter on 1010 WINS-AM radio said she saw a jet airliner flying low over Manhattan and crash into the World Trade Center. So I, like everyone else, thought a horrible accident had occurred...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Bush choppered into lower Manhattan Friday to stand at the center of the terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank - thecops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A President Finds His Voice | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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