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Under the 30-foot American flag draped across six of the NYSE’s Corinthian columns, a line of people waiting for the markets to open presented a unique Wall Street sight: the suited brokers clutche steaming coffees in one hand and cell phones in the other, plotting stock strategy through surgical masks to fend off the soot and smoke that still fogged...
...others, it was probably still too soon. For some, this weekend might still be too soon. The sight of fans wearing blue with the crimson and white at Soldier’s Field on Saturday won’t allay all concerns about timing and mood. And what can one do but respect that...
...memory of the destruction we witnessed Tuesday will consist, in part, of the astonishing newsreel that captured the collision with the southern tower. The millions of Americans who watched those few seconds of videotape played over and over again, in slow motion, will long remember the sight of that dark shadow speeding toward the tower, disappearing as it collided, then emerging as a giant fireball from the opposite side. We will long remember watching the collapse of the World Trade Center and the sight of the giant dust cloud that arose above lower Manhattan—towering buildings reduced...
...towers of the World Trade Center were burning. I wondered how it was possible that both buildings could be burning at about the same height, at the same time. My mind was struggling to understand the sight...
Just then, a piece of floating paper pressed flatly against our office window. The edges were charred dark brown. It was a piece of company letterhead that said “Marsh USA.” Everyone let out a gasp at the sight of it; Marsh was on the 95th floor of the north tower...