Word: towering
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...confusing proclamations of war; so many calls for action in which action is understood as bellicose; so many flag-waving cheers for armed retaliation; I am concerned that the very real pain of those killed, wounded, and mourning is in danger of being swept away. The toppling of the towers of the World Trade Center and the breaching of the Pentagon are events whose grandiosity, played and replayed in images across the world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered, of course...
American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower at 8:45 a.m. On any other day, I would have been walking through the WTC at that time, maybe even lingering in the mall to get breakfast or coffee. Last Tuesday, however, I was late—I had stayed at home a few extra minutes to make a phone call that morning...
...analyst in American Express’s Strategic Planning Group on the 38th floor of 3 World Financial Center. Our building is connected to the WTC North Tower by a covered footbridge. I go to work everyday by taking a subway to the Cortland Street stop, located underneath the WTC, then walking through the mall and through the lobby of the North Tower into my building...
...came up to the street, a block from the WTC Towers. I saw smoke coming from the top of the North Tower, as well as large amounts of paper falling out of the windows. I started to walk closer to the WTC and to ask others what had happened. Some said a bomb, others a fire, yet still others told me a plane had accidentally crashed into the tower...
...second plane crashed into the South Tower at 9:05 a.m. I was directly across the street from that building when I heard a loud explosion, looked up and saw a large ball of fire, and felt a wave of heat hit me. Everyone started screaming and crying as they ran away from the Towers. I was trying to run as quickly as I could without tripping in my heels, trying to stay ahead of the sharp pieces of glass or concrete I was convinced were flying right at my back...