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| Above: A man stands in the rubbleand calls out asking if anyone needs help. Photographer Doug Kanter, Agence France-Presse. At left: Source unknown. Below: The World Trade Center Towers and the Statute of Liberty. |
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| September 11, 2001 |
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| Above: Second air plane heads for the Two World Trade Center. Carmen Taylor, Associated Press |
| These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine |
| patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with |
| conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: -- 'Tis dearness |
| us, that the harder the |
| Above: The corridors of New York City, September 11, 2001 Photographer unknown. Below: Abandoned stairs, photo by The New York Times. |
| Above: The streets in lower Manhattan were covered with ash and fragments from office worker's desks. Photogrpher: Marilynn K. Yee, The New York Times. |
| only that gives every thing its value. Heaven |
| knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. ~ Thomas Paine The American Crisis, 1776 |
| Above: Candle light vigil at the Christian Science Church in Boston on September 14, 2001. Photographer: Christina Caturano, The Associated Press. |
| At left: Phanton Towers conceived by Paul Myoda and Julian LaVerdiere. Original photograph by Fred R. Conrad, The New York Times. Digital manipulation by The New York Times. |
| The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR |
| A message of hope in a time of grief and mourning.... |