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Fernando R. DeLeon ’01 was at a red light on the West Side Highway only a few hundred yards from the north tower when he saw the first plane approaching just seconds before it struck. He said that cars were bumping into each other as drivers took their eyes from the road, and only moments later a police officer had cordoned off the area, trapping cars in the process...
Robbason was struck by the reems of copier paper blowing around and countless rolls of toilet paper falling like streamers. He saw what he thought were pieces of a building dropping to the ground but then realized they were people. One person trying to climb from one room into another was clinging onto the building before he lost his grip and fell...
...There is a creeping fatigue that comes when one begins to contemplate the copycats with suitcase bombs and ideas of remote fealty to the cause that struck at us Tuesday. Will that spread across America, and will it last...
...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...
...Thus began for all of us a day that will live as much in infamy as Dec. 7, 1941. Terrorism has struck America before, but never this brazenly and never with such heartbreaking destruction. As my colleagues and I watched the horrific events, we decided to devote a special issue to memorializing this day and to get it into our readers' hands as quickly as possible. We have ripped up issues for news before, of course; in fact, on that first day of infamy, when Pearl Harbor was bombed, we ditched the cover we had planned (on a new Walt...