Imagining attacks of Sept. 11 weeks later
Last Saturday, two more firemen were found in the rubble where the Twin Towers once stood. You could see the searchers fumbling with the bodies, putting them on stretchers, covering each of them with an oversized American flag.
And everywhere around Ground Zero, my father told me, were pictures and profiles of people who had worked in the two buildings. A name, a picture, a description, a brief, choked plea. A floor number. The obituaries ran on and on in the New York Times, a dozen a day.
Despite this, it has been easy, almost, to forget that it happened. That moment we...
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