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...Tuesday, after hearing the first crash in the neighboring tower, they met in front of the 78th-floor express elevators. But an announcement assured them they were safe, so they parted and went back upstairs. After the second explosion, this time in their building, the room collapsed on Oyola. He groped his way to a staircase, made it all the way outside, and started looking for his wife. Then he heard what sounded like a train barreling toward him. It was, in fact, the sound of 110 floors collapsing on top of one another. "I just started running. And after...
...called his dad Rudy to ask if he had heard from Kurt's brother Kent, who worked in the American Express building across from the Trade Center. Rudy said Kent was fine, so Kurt returned to his duties--at the Pentagon. Within minutes, of course, a second plane would crash into the south tower; a third would hit the Pentagon. Now Rudy and his wife Jacquelyn couldn't reach either son. Rudy, a basketball coach, gamed out grim odds. "There was a good chance I could lose at least...
Consoling his brother-in-law in Connecticut and his family back in Ireland, Clifford received a phone call from Maffeo's sister. Clifford told her about his own losses in the crash. The sister gave Clifford the family's thanks for putting himself at risk to be her sister's savior. Clifford replied that she had it wrong--he never would have made it out of the building before it collapsed if he had not picked up her sister. "The truth is, she saved my life, she gave me strength," says Clifford. He also believes his sister Ruth's hovering...
Within an hour of the second plane crash, a dozen patients--all with life-threatening burns--had been speeded by ambulance to this, the nation's leading burn unit, which by perverse happenstance is located about 100 blocks from Ground Zero. Because burns need immediate, specialized care, the most serious cases bypassed the emergency room and were sent directly to the special unit. By the next day, 25 victims had been admitted...
...wrong that America has done to Muslims." It is easy for Khan to understand the mentality of the airline hijackers who unleashed their apocalyptic destruction on New York and Washington. He can comprehend how 19 educated men, despite having seen the world in all its wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers because, in his heart, Khan is one of them. Yet Khan doesn't fit the profile of a typical Muslim terrorist. He's not a vengeful Palestinian youth whose brother was gunned down by Israelis for chucking a stone at a tank. Nor does he fit our stereotype...