1. NOW We moved up from street level, through chicken wire passageways that smelled of sweat and concrete, passing working men squinting at blueprints, cutting pipe, moving concrete blocks on flatbed hand trucks. Light bulbs danced on cords, casting uneven light. We heard grinding sounds, hammering, occasional shouts above the din. Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority, led our small patrol. All of us wore hardhats. We were in a hardhat world. Then we moved outside to a terrace that was open to the gray New York morning sky. We could hear falling water, steady and strong, the sound of an unseen falls in a forest. Ahead of us was a parapet, about 4 feet high, its top made of shining dark bronze, most of it on this day covered with taped cardboard. As we approached, the sound of falling water grew more powerful, and in the torn gaps of the covering, we could see names. The names of our dead. My wife and I looked over the bronze-topped parapet. I gasped. My wife squeezed my hand. Ward glanced at me, nodded. Below us, and in front of us, was the Memorial. No photograph, no video clip had… Read full this story
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