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BOSTON—As shock and horror at the nation’s worst terrorist attack turned to anger and resolve yesterday, the FBI launched the most massive investigation in its history—an investigation that quickly centered on Boston and the city’s ties to suspected ringleader Osama bin Laden...
...have enlisted in the armed services and joined the United Service Organizations. I could have taken a stand for my nation. Today as a young adult, I can donate blood in the hopes of saving victims, but I cannot strike directly at the cause of Tuesday’s horror. I can’t stop the murderers...
...Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror, and fear. The first plane is just to get our attention. Then, once we are transfixed, the second plane comes and repeats the theme until the blinding coda of smoke and debris crumbles on top of the rescue workers who have gone in to try to save anyone who survived the opening movements. And we watch, speechless, as the sirens, like some awful choir, hour after hour let you know that it is not over yet, wait...
...shirts to make bandages and tourniquets for the wounded; others used bits of clothing as masks to help them breathe. Whole stretches of street were slick with blood, and up and down the avenues you could hear the screams of people plunging from the burning tower. People watched in horror as a man tried to shimmy down the outside of the tower. He made it about three floors before flipping backward to the ground...
...understood that they could be a target. The degree of security in government offices and at airports is of a degree unimaginable only 20 years ago, when you could wander around federal government buildings almost at will. But no amount of understanding could suffice to prepare Americans for the horror they have had to cope with today...