New York’s flying finest cope with post-Sept. 11 realities
More than a year later, southern Manhattan still seems scarred, incomplete; the variegated skyline stretching the length of the island seems an archite
More than a year later, southern Manhattan still seems scarred, incomplete; the variegated skyline stretching the length of the island seems an architectural sentence without an emphatic piece of closing punctuation. It’s the visual equivalent of “phantom limb syndrome,” that condition amputees suffer in which they’re not only aware of their amputated appendages but also suffer aches and pains as
if those limbs were still attached.
What should have been an ordinary day, a late-summer Tuesday morning over a year ago, became a nightmare when a pair of hijacked jetliners smashed into Manhattan’s World Trade Center, destroying the towers and killing thousands, among them 70 police officers and 343 firefighters.
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