It took about nine months to dismantle and excavate the ruins of the twin towers. The people who cut that steel and drove those trucks are still walking around with the burden of memories. What they saw, smelled, and touched. It is the cleanup, the aftermath, the long, day by day, out of the spotlight, dangerous drudgery of facing death that haunts me. When the cameras had floated on to other stories, they were still cutting, digging.

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