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In the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Daily News staff writer Corky Siemaszko wrote several snapshots of the city’s mood at the time. Siemaszko offered similar snapshots on the first few anniversaries of the attacks. Here we present a selection from the series.
Snapshots of New York’s Mood after 9/11
Corky Siemaszko
DAY OF TERROR
Originally published: 9/12/2001
Those not entombed by the bomb-blasted buildings ran and ran — just as they did eight years earlier, when another terror attack shook this mighty symbol of America’s power.
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The morning coffee was still cooling when our grandest illusion was shattered. Within minutes, one of New York’s mightiest symbols was a smoldering mess and the nation’s image of invincibility was made a lie.
As the World Trade Center crumpled and the streets filled with screams and scenes of unimaginable horror, choking smoke blotted out the sun and plunged lower Manhattan into darkness.
For the rest of the country, there was another shock to digest — a second kamikaze attack. This time on the Pentagon.
More horror. More chaos. More amazement that the mighty United States could be so vulnerable to terror.
But on the streets of lower Manhattan there was no time for finger-pointing. No time for talk of revenge. People were dying. Cops and firefighters were dying with them.
Commentators called the attack a second Pearl Harbor, until now our most tragic hour. Politicians denounced the likely culprits in Afghanistan. And before dusk, there were urate reports that an angry America was raining revenge on Kabul.
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When the sun rose yesterday, someone joked that the city was missing its two front teeth. But there was nothing to laugh about in the aftermath of our generation’s Pearl Harbor.
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One day we will think back on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and remember in crystal detail what we were doing when the first plane crashed into the north tower at 8:45 .
And we will