Where I Was When... & Where I Was When... (The Follow-up) by Carol Mangis "...I'm not a doctor, a firefighter, or a politician, so what I have to do, all I can do, is write."

A Child of Allah by Mark Mordue "Right now the entire world is wounded. Because New York is much more than a major American city....  New York is the capital of the world. It represents the high point of Western civilization, its very heartbeat, and I would go even further to say the heartbeat of all international civilization."

God and Wall Street: Observations and reflections crossing America, late September, 2001 by Judd Kleinman "... it is the responsibility of those of us who ended up on the periphery of this tragedy to try not only to understand what has happened, but try to offset some of its horror by returning to our lives with an increased sense of purpose and priority."

Warren St., October 25 by Laura Saiter "So this is terrorism--and I have lived a sheltered life...  I see pictures of those horrifying smoke clouds and everything is shrouded in secrecy and mystery, vague, speculative, contradictory. I want facts—but they are few and far between."

The Aftermath, Part Two, Living Post-Disaster by Laura Saiter  "Once in Indiana, I showed my cousins pictures of my mother’s neighborhood and apartment, including the one of the clothes hanging in the hallway, wrapped in plastic. I watched their eyes pop wide open as I told them about my mother living four blocks away, and her and her husband running from the collapsing building."

Notes on the Unspeakable & What We Can Do
by Garrett Mok

Pictures ... Emergency & Relief Efforts

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