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“Clearly, of all the thousands of people directly affected by the World Trade Center attack, we were among the most extraordinarily fortunate.”
“I guess I loved my little downtown neighborhood more than I ever realized.”
“Then another explosion shook the scene, and suddenly an inconceivable word was in the air: terrorists.”
“And, of course, the apartment where I’ve lived for the past ten years, only three blocks from the cloud-piercing towers of the World Trade Center.”
“Anyone actually on the scene, I thought despairingly, would have to conclude that such possibilities were grotesquely remote.”
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“A number of rescue dogs had already been lost in the treacherously shifting debris, he said.”
“I am now sitting at a computer overlooking a garden in upstate New York, imposing on yet another generous friend, far from my rubble-strewn street in downtown Manhattan, which is still blocked and inaccessible and may remain that way for some time to come.”
“There we joined a half-block-long line of people waiting for their street name to be called, and we were finally led through debris-blasted streets to our building, where a National Guard sergeant guided us with his flashlight up a dark back staircase for a fifteen-minute visit.”
“The rest will never again be the same.”
“Down at the end of the street, just a few blocks away, framed between the southernmost buildings still left standing, rose a monstrous, seething pile of twisted metal and stone and God alone knew what else, smoking and steaming and hissing and spitting in the dreadful, pitch-black night.”
“At the bar, I encountered one of the many dog handlers working the site; he was holding his trained Rottweiler, equipped with emergency-supply saddlebags, on a thick, black leash.”
“I turned to my girlfriend, on a nearby corner, and we ran, too.”
“If so, is it an enemy along the lines of the Nazis and the imperial Japanese of the last century — a psychopathic social malignancy that needs to be erased utterly, and at any cost, from the earth?”
“As for human beings, he’d managed to unearth thirty-three body parts, including two torsos and one arm, amputated from the forearm down.”
“Like every other American, I’ve been trying to make sense of what’s happened to us so suddenly and brutally and … inexplicably.”
“This man felt certain there were still living victims trapped within the rubble.”
“A blown-out gas main?”
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“I braced myself against the wall of a building and stared up toward the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the neighborhood’s most familiar and dominant sight.”
“Some of this is gone forever now.”