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...With every rebuff, I would edge away and look around, and the scene - and my journalistic role in it - shook me up. Traders in their colored blazers, men and women who shout for a living, silently grasping at each other with tears in their eyes. Men in suits with flag ties and slumped shoulders, sucking forlornly on a cigarette or a cup of coffee. Scattered halves of cell-phone conversation - "Jimmy?s a nut case now? No, I don?t feel like eating today...
...worker cried a little and shook her head in stunned disbelief. I lowered my head, turned north and continued walking. I cannot remember ever feeling so small...
...terror triggered other reactions besides heroism. Robert Falcon worked in the parking garage at the towers: "When the blast shook it went dark and we all went down, and I had a flashlight and everyone was screaming at me. People were ripping my shirt to try and get to my flashlight, and they were crushing me. The whole crowd was on top of me wanting the flashlight...
...scary compared to the first bombing. Then the building shook like maybe a yard, but this was multiple explosions. I just took off at that point. There were no announcements; there were still a lot of people down in the lobby looking up at the building. When we got to the ground floor people were just running like rabbits. We were on Chase Plaza in Williams Street when the second one went...
...terror triggered other reactions besides heroism. Robert Falcon worked in the parking garage at the towers: "When the blast shook it went dark and we all went down, and I had a flashlight and everyone was screaming at me. People were ripping my shirt to try and get to my flashlight, and they were crushing me. The whole crowd was on top of me wanting the flashlight...