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While many widows were clinging to support groups and touring ground zero, Ginny bunkered down and hardly left the immediate environs of Avon. She had, and still has, no desire to see the site. ("What would I want with construction dirt?" she is fond of asking. "It's not my husband.") In part, she was sluggish with grief. But there was something else tethering her to home. Ginny has a terrible sense of direction--on top of everything else, George had been the family compass--and she was petrified of losing her way. Then one day Hilary's principal called...
...story about their fathers. At first, they all looked at their shoes. Then, just as she did at school whenever the teacher looked desperate, Hilary confidently spoke up, volunteering, "My dad was known for his Argyle socks, and we donated some of those socks to the rescuers at ground zero." She felt an immediate rush; soon the other kids were eagerly relating memories of their fathers...
...long way from answers: we scarcely have a vocabulary for these people. They are truly "survivors," but that word has been largely appropriated for the relatives of dead victims. We could call Genelle and the others "escapees," but they didn't really escape--they just dodged fate. After ground-zero workers unearthed Pasquale's soot-encrusted briefcase a few months ago, the New York police department mailed a letter to his wife Louise saying searchers had found an item that belonged either to her or to the deceased. When Pasquale presented himself at One Police Plaza to pick...
...then she hears a huge noise--Pasquale describes it as a dozen safes being tossed down the stairs. Lieut. Mickey Kross, who survived with a group of his fellow fire fighters in the lower part of stairway B that didn't collapse, recalls in Report from Ground Zero (Viking) that "there is now a sense of tremendous energy, like being on a locomotive track with a train coming at you." Something big comes through one wall at Genelle and Rosa and pushes them back. They fall, but Rosa recovers her footing. Genelle stays on the floor and starts to crawl...
After Sana saw ground zero with her own eyes, her romantic view of bin Laden began to harden. "At first I couldn't believe that he was behind these gruesome attacks," she says. But the video released in December, which shows him gloating over the destruction, turned Sana against him. "He thought he was a savior of Muslims, but he was warped and wrong," she says...