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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
MItchell Zuckoff
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The farewell calls from the planes… the mounting terror of air traffic control… the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish… From an author who’s spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, human force’ Daily Mail This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerising, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder. Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life – and in some cases, bringing back to life – the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.
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CONTENTS
Cover (#u4ff9325f-d4ed-5bdf-b64f-4a01274e74d4)
Title Page (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#u895814b8-c1ee-55ad-abc8-0084bfa3c567)
Dedication (#u537a46e8-5e11-5c49-a054-8310b7963a5f)
Epigraph (#u92f9c20d-67e4-5516-8252-b7f1320ab535)
Maps (#u8eb40741-d3c5-5106-9d69-fa3e9f3a9d07)
Introduction “The Darkness of Ignorance” (#ue23354c1-7f77-5efa-b8ca-3ddf71ce5a77)
Prologue “A Clear Declaration of War” (#udf3535ee-890f-5b44-8445-5817c3e7857d)
PART I FALL FROM THE SKY (#u761278ca-5ba8-598a-96aa-a89269bc664f)
Chapter 1 “Quiet’s a Good Thing” (#u5524a25a-f5ce-59f0-8f57-47d79163a68f)
Chapter 2 “He’s NORDO” (#u7c50639f-7010-56f3-9a8c-ecf3ef38012e)
Chapter 3 “A Beautiful Day to Fly” (#u14d73ee7-3785-52fc-bd05-a1dd2950236e)
Chapter 4 “I Think We’re Being Hijacked” (#u4cc4afeb-d45d-5897-a722-52559a285bd5)
Chapter 5 “Don’t Worry, Dad” (#u3298179d-eed5-500f-ba6a-f579485eae3b)
Chapter 6 “The Start of World War III” (#ud61a0122-c42b-5319-8886-1a0da3611cd4)
Chapter 7 “Beware Any Cockpit Intrusion” (#ub9340ec1-8f99-55c3-83ca-3c0abff33777)
Chapter 8 “America Is Under Attack” (#u65116cef-3f72-557b-9a89-ee7a0bc3eba6)
Chapter 9 “Make Him Brave” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 10 “Let’s Roll” (#litres_trial_promo)
PART II FALL TO THE GROUND (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 11 “We Need You” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 12 “How Lucky Am I?” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 13 “God Save Me!” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 14 “We’ll Be Brothers for Life” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 “They’re Trying to Kill Us, Boys” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 “They Done Blowed Up the Pentagon” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 “I Think Those Buildings Are Going Down” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 “To Run, Where the Brave Dare Not Go” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 “Remember This Name” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 “This Is Your Plane Crash” (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!” (#litres_trial_promo)
PART III RISE FROM THE ASHES (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 “Your Sister and Niece Will Never Be Lonely” (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendix 1 The Fallen (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendix 2 Timeline of Key Events on September 11, 2001 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)
Notes (#litres_trial_promo)
Select Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)
List of Searchable Terms (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Mitchell Zuckoff (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
DEDICATION (#ulink_95d046cf-c90e-5ee4-85ce-4ebb589e6b0b)
For my children—
and everyone else’s
EPIGRAPH (#ulink_4305c827-b7bf-5183-8ffe-fba9e963467a)
The ravages of many a forest fire of a bygone age may be read today in the scars left in the tree itself. The exact year that the fire occurred and some idea of its intensity are recorded in the wood, oftentimes grown over with living tissue and hid from the casual observer.
—FOREST PATHOLOGIST J. S. BOYCE, 1921
MAPS (#ulink_d88f2d45-8b87-5067-9677-3c55a48ecb0d)
INTRODUCTION (#ulink_9fb0f9bd-f8d6-5906-9339-abd0edae1dc4)
“The Darkness of Ignorance” (#ulink_9fb0f9bd-f8d6-5906-9339-abd0edae1dc4)
ON OCTOBER 28, 1886, PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND SAILED TO A teardrop-shaped island in New York Harbor to formally accept France’s gift of the Statue of Liberty. Under leaden skies and a veil of mist, the president ended his speech with a tribute to the copper-clad lady’s torch and her symbolic power: “A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and men’s oppression until Liberty shall enlighten the world.”
Dignitaries pounded ceremonial last rivets as warship cannons boomed. Across the water in Lower Manhattan, revelers erupted in celebration. Cobblestone streets pulsed with braying horses, throbbing drums, and blooming flower carts. Brass bands marched like front-bound soldiers, and children scrambled up lampposts to avoid being trampled.
Out-of-towners drawn to the spectacle tilted their heads to gawk at the impossibly tall buildings that loomed over them. Amused by these sky-eyed rubes, an office boy in a high tower felt seized by a raffish idea. He opened a window and tossed out long ribbons of the narrow paper tape that normally recorded the drunkard’s walk of stock prices. His pals followed suit.
“In a moment, the air was white with curling streamers,” a reporter for the New York Times observed. “Hundreds caught in the meshes of electric wires and made a snowy canopy, and others floated downward and were caught by the crowd.”
The fun was contagious. Serious men of finance became boys again, pressing against office windows to unspool paper onto the crowd. “There was seemingly no end to it,” the Times reporter wrote. “Every window appeared to be a paper mill spouting out squirming lines of tape. Such was Wall Street’s novel celebration.”
With that, the ticker-tape parade was born.
During the next one hundred fifteen years, countless tons of celebratory confetti sailed from high-rise windows onto a stretch of Lower Broadway that became known as the Canyon of Heroes. Paper blizzards honored more than two hundred explorers and presidents, war heroes and athletes, astronauts and religious figures, luminaries from Einstein to Earhart, Churchill to Kennedy, Mandela to the Mets.
Then came September 11, 2001.
Torn open, aflame, weakening from within, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center spewed paper like blood from an arterial wound. Legal documents and employee reviews. Pay stubs, birthday cards, takeout menus. Timesheets and blueprints, photographs and calendars, crayon drawings and love notes. Some in full, some in tatters, some in flames. A single scrap from the South Tower, tossed like a bottled message from a sinking ship, captured the day’s horror. In a scrawled hand, next to a bloody fingerprint, the note read:
84th floor
west office
12 People trapped
After the paper came the people. After the people came the buildings. After the buildings came the wars. The ashes cooled, but not the anguish. For years, New Yorkers couldn’t stomach a ticker-tape parade, especially so near the hallowed hole renamed Ground Zero. Yet with time, the unthinkable often becomes acceptable.
In February 2008, the underdog New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Tens of thousands of football fans gathered to celebrate, just blocks from where steel beams rose for a dazzling “Freedom Tower” at One World Trade Center, an audacious middle finger to America’s enemies, taller and bolder than the boxy twins whose sanctified footprints the new building overlooked. As the victorious Giants rolled past, their joyful supporters danced in the streets as thirty-six tons of shredded paper fluttered down upon them.
Measured in ticker tape, the return to “normal” took less than seven years.
WITH TIME, NEWS becomes history. And history, it’s been said, is what happened to other people. For anyone who lived through September 11, time might dull the anger and grief that followed the death and destruction caused when terrorists turned four commercial passenger jets into guided missiles. But the memories won’t die. The pain of the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history cut too deep, leaving knots of psychic scars that make each day an experience of before and after, of adapting to a world changed physically by every security checkpoint and psychologically by every mention of the “homeland,” a word seldom used in the United States prior to the events now known as 9/11. (The month-and-day abbreviation became the universal shorthand for the attacks largely because the digits corresponded to the nation’s 9-1-1 emergency call system; there’s no evidence the terrorists chose the date for that reason.)
Already an entire generation has no direct memory of 9/11, despite its daily effects on their lives. The historian Ian W. Toll described this progression in relation to another shocking enemy assault that also led to war: the raid on Pearl Harbor, sixty years earlier. “The passage of time strips away the searing immediacy of the surprise attack and envelops it in layers of exposition and retrospective judgment,” Toll wrote. “Hindsight furnishes us with perspective on the crisis, but it also undercuts our ability to empathize with the immediate concerns of those who suffered through it.” He quoted John H. McGoran, a sailor on the doomed battleship USS California: “If you didn’t go through it, there are no words that can adequately describe it; if you were there, then no words are necessary.”
