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...half-mast. We felt this truth when our Congressional leaders suddenly forgot their party rivalries and, standing together at the Capitol, sang “God Bless America” in unison. And feel it we must, for it is this truth that the terrorists who blew apart the Manhattan skyline and gouged a scar in the Pentagon seek to destroy. They did not attack mere buildings. They did not attack individual people. They attacked, deliberately, the greatest force for freedom, democracy and prosperity that the world has ever seen...
...Across the country, houses of all kinds of worship filled with grieving Americans singing America the Beautiful, wiping away streams of tears. "Humanity came apart in lower Manhattan today, and each of us is wounded. We mourn the loss of our innocence," declared Rabbi Gary Gerson at Oak Park Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation outside Chicago. "Terror has struck us, but it will not destroy us. Now we are all Israelis," he added...
...little earlier than usual last tuesday. my day, perhaps like yours, was shaping up to be pretty busy, so I wanted to get a head start. A little before 8 a.m., I kissed my wife and son goodbye and headed to Time's offices in midtown Manhattan. By 8:30, I was at my desk, answering e-mails. Shortly before 9 a.m., Steve Koepp, the deputy managing editor, called on his cell phone from downtown. Walking his son to school, he could see that a plane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center...
...have it, Time's James Carney was one of only 13 reporters traveling on Air Force One with President George Bush when he took off from Florida and secretly flew to a secure military base in Louisiana. Other Time reporters raced to the World Trade Center and hospitals around Manhattan, while our journalists around the world-from Washington to Kabul, from Los Angeles to Jerusalem-filed reports overnight Tuesday. All this reporting landed on the desk of senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who over the course of dozens of covers has proved that no one is better at capturing a moment...
...While my colleagues in New York City scrambled to meet our deadlines, many of us also tried to reach relatives and friends who work in downtown Manhattan. I looked at hundreds of photographs for this issue, and as a native New Yorker whose dad was a New York City policeman for 25 years, I kept coming back to the faces of my fellow New Yorkers who escaped death and the cops and fire fighters who helped them do it, knowing that in the days to come we will see so many pictures of those who did not make...