In his book A Time for Heroes, Lance Wubbles paid tribute to the patriotic heroes the world watched on September 11, 2001:
It was a day of thinkable horror and destruction, but it became a day for American heroes. Heroes were everywhere you looked. Giants rose out of relative obscurity to cast long shadows across the smoke and dust and rubble. Ordinary American citizens, suddenly caught in the crossfire of terrorism, put their lives on the line to preserve the lives of others.
They emerged as the truly mighty and valiant ones of Flight 93. Among the smoldering wreckage of the Pentagon, they stood with undimmed spirits as firefighters unfurled a gigantic flag from the roof of the burned-out structure. At Ground Zero, hundreds and thousands of people on dozens of fronts searched the mountain of unstable rubble in an epic battle to win back as many lives as could possibly be rescued.
Most of them remain nameless to us, but their undaunted faces are engraved forever upon our hearts. They are the firefighters, the tireless firefighters, who were forever captured by the photo of the three ashen-caked firemen raising the American Flag on a pole that stuck up out of the debris of the World Trade Center. Framed against the monstrous heap of steel and concrete in the background, it was an easy reminder of the heroic Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima during another of this nation's great conflicts.
They are the police, paramedics, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, National Guard, Red Cross workers, and others we have so often taken for granted. And they are the janitors and security guards and office managers and the coworkers who said no to death and helped thousands escape who might have easily perished.
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Revamped Design For Foster + Partners’ Two World Trade Center Awaits Reveal, In Financial District
The World Trade Center master plan with the original design for the Two World Trade Centers, designed by Norman Foster,
BY: MICHAEL YOUNG 8:00 AM ON DECEMBER 27, 2020
Number five on YIMBY’s end-of-year countdown is Two World Trade Center, aka 200 Greenwich Street, a 1,350-foot-tall office skyscraper and the last major component of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex. Earlier this year, they announced that Norman Foster of Foster + Partners would return as the architect for the project, which is being developed by Larry Silverstein, head of Silverstein Properties. However, the highly anticipated revamped design of Foster’s original 2006 proposal has yet to be revealed.
WE WERE THEN AND WE ARE NOW AMERICANS
No, Americans will ever forget what happened on September 11, 2001. Each of us will remember how the serenity of that morning was destroyed by a savage atrocity, an act so hostile we could scarcely imagine any human being capable of. The realization sank into every American heart. America had been vulnerable and under attack. On this day evil had literally taken flight. As 19 men and one woman showed the world, their worst, we Americans displayed what makes our country great courage and heroism, show compassion and generosity, unity and ability to resolve.
We first united in our sorrow and heart ack and then anger, then in recognition that we were under attack. Not for wrong for what we had done, but because of who we are, a people united in the kinship of ideals, committed to the notion that people are sovereign, and that people everywhere, no matter their race or country or religion, possess certain universal and inalienable rights. We are not different races. We are not poor or rich, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. There are two countries. As Americans, we acted swiftly. We liberated Afghanistan from the murderous rules of the Taliban, our attacker’s proud host. We chased Al Qaeda around the globe. We revamped our homeland security, reorganized our intelligence community, and advocated reform in calcified societies. Because the pages of our history books had been renewed. The terrorists, (Osama Bin Laden), who attacked America were clear on their intentions. His ilk has perverted a peaceful religion, devoted it not to the salvation of souls but to the destruction of bodies. They wish to destroy us, to bring the world under their control, an Icarian rule according to some misguided religious fantasy. America’s way of life stands in their way and everyone else’s way of life.
Once we realized we had been under attack, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Planes landed, borders closed, and no one had been allowed in Manhattan for any reason. America was in shock, the Towers falling, people jumping out of windows. Very heartbreaking.
No matter where you were on September 11, 2001, everyone had gotten a bird's-eye view of the terror attacks had done. Being there or watching tv. I, myself was in shock, at what I was watching. I cried, and my heart went out to the children, and those who lost loved ones. To set and watch people jumping out of windows to try to save themselves. I felt sick. Thinking about it as I write this article upsets me. They had shut New York down to everyone, and even to Canada. That scared me. My grandfather had gone to Canada the night before. I was worried about getting him out. My Grandfather had gotten well enough to go on his last trip before he passed away a month later. I could go on about how my day was, but this is not about me.
The story I am about to write is about a new America, and a better New York. I went surfing the internet and found this article from the New York Daily. I emailed the paper to let them know I was going to use some of their writing with mine.
Since the 10th anniversary of the attacks, which marked the opening of the 9/11 memorial, lower Manhattan has roared back the completion of several long-delayed projects, including the 1 World Trade Center observatory, the finished 9/11 museum, two transit hubs, and a massive shopping mall.
Now people are not just paying their respects but living life, that’s what the World Trade Center was for. The latest addition is the Westfield World Trade Center, a high-end 350,000-square-foot mall centered at
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