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At the entry to the site of the WTC near Water Street a check point was being set up. No one could pass without a respirator, glasses or hard hat. These city workers were decorating the entry point with a flag. September 2001.

The site at the WTC smoldering at sunset. September 2001

This subway entrance was covered over in the aftermath. September 2001, World Trade Center Site.

It was not possible to breathe the air, even weeks later. The burning, acric smell of death and destruction was overwhelming. World Trade Center site September 2001.

The surrounding buildings to the WTC were draped in red during the clean-up, as if they were bleeding.

All the fences surrounding the WTC site were covered in messages and flowers for weeks. September 2001

New York skyline, Novemmber 1, 2001.

I used to work across the street from WTC between 1984-1985. I was working a temp job processing paper the same way every day. Even though my job was menial, my office was one that a high level executive would have had. I took hundreds of serious…