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...about to snap at him to move out of the way so that the doors could close, and just then the second plane hit. The elevator shook unbelievably. I thought we were going to into a free fall, but we didn't. Everybody ran out. There was so much dust. We merged back into the stairwell. When we finally got out on Church St., people told us "just run," and then with equal emphasis, "and don't look up." But I think it's human nature to stop and look. We saw how the beams were mangled...
...drive by Ground Zero. I find it difficult to think of downtown Manhattan any other way than I see it in my head. There will always be that huge airplane tire lying in the street. There will always be the pieces of airplane lying amid tons of dust and rubble. We just clean up and move along with our lives, a bit wiser, with a bit more respect for each other...
...started putting our equipment on. We were still getting our gear together to take to the command center right by Building Five when the south tower collapsed. We sought refuge in doorways and under vehicles to get out of the debris field. Then after the dust began to settle, we helped numerous people who were injured into buildings. We proceeded to the north tower to see if we could help people in that tower, and we were just about there when it collapsed. We retreated to Broadway to avoid the debris again. There, we set up a command post...
...Since 9/11, I've been forced to retire. Pretty much right away I had difficulty breathing because of all the dust and debris at the site. I went to our department doctor and as soon as they took a CAT scan they realized there was something wrong. I have serious lung problems. I retired in 2002, but then came back to the department as a consultant. On Sept. 11 we'd been unable to communicate with the radios we had in the Trade Center because of all the steel and concrete. I invented a radio, the Command Post Radio, that...
...regrets. Since the decision to commit soldiers to battle is the most fateful he makes, it is here that a President--his instincts, his judgment, his pride and his purposes--is most exposed. If he succeeds, the errors are footnotes; if he fails, the best intentions are just dust. "I guess not many Presidents have been understood in their own time," Lyndon Johnson said, reflecting on all the good he'd tried to do for people, who despised him nonetheless. George W. Bush swats away the judgments that anniversaries invite. "There's no such thing as short-term history...