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Jenkins had worked since May of last year in the John Hancock Tower as a corporate offices service manager for Charles River Associates (CRA), a consulting firm. Before joining CRA, he held management positions at ADD Inc. Heidlage & Reece, P.C., Commonvest Associates Trust, Landmark Foundation and Palmer & Dodge, LLP. Last Tuesday, Jenkins was on his way to L.A. to meet with the West Coast branch of CRA, a voyage he made two or three times this year as he helped the company expand its domestic and international offices...
Landmarks, and vanquished landmarks in particular, have a unique power over the public’s conscience and imagination. Hollywood clearly knows this; in the past, it has packed theaters with people eager to see the destruction of the White House and Empire State Building (Independence Day), the Eiffel Tower (Deep Impact), and the Statue of Liberty (Planet of the Apes). At a time when our fascination with such images must be harnessed in order to memorialize a real-life disaster of epic proportions, Hollywood is instead eliminating those images from view. Doing so is a mistake, one that misinterprets...
When I woke up last Tuesday morning just in time to watch the second World Trade Center tower burst into flames, I was horrified, scared and most of all sad. But I wasn’t angry. I wasn’t angry when the Pentagon was hit, and I wasn’t angry when the two towers fell. I’m still not angry, even as they pull bodies from the rubble and the death toll continues to rise. Sorrow and grief are the only emotions I feel...
...then one of the geologists in my office yelled, “The south tower is falling!” With a rush of panic and adrenaline, I yelled to my friend on the phone, “I gotta go! The building’s falling!” and again to my mom, “I gotta go! The building’s falling...
...handful of people standing and looking in the direction of the one remaining tower. We briefly paused and stared with them but then decided to keep walking. Only seconds after we resumed our march of terror, we heard a loud “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Our first thought was that a large truck was passing overhead on the FDR. Only seconds later, though, we turned around to find only dark gray smoke where the north tower had once stood...