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maleficent · 02-23-2005, 07:40 PM

102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
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This book is a lot harder to read that I thought it would be -- it's well written, it's well researched, but there are parts that are so infuriating, you just want to scream... Why? It's also go moments of such compassion and poignancy. At no point do the authors make the claim that the FDNY and NYPD didn't do all they could, but the book introduces you to the ordinary people who worked together and who banded together to help where they could. I would like to believe we all have enough goodness and humanity to assist an injured person down 50+ flights of stairs or that we would "stay with a friend" who was wheelchair bound till help arrived as well as a few other moments scattered throughout the book...

02-23-2005, 07:40 PM	#629 (permalink)
maleficent Junkie Moderator Emeritus Location: Chicago	102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn ------------- This book is a lot harder to read that I thought it would be -- it's well written, it's well researched, but there are parts that are so infuriating, you just want to scream... Why? It's also go moments of such compassion and poignancy. At no point do the authors make the claim that the FDNY and NYPD didn't do all they could, but the book introduces you to the ordinary people who worked together and who banded together to help where they could. I would like to believe we all have enough goodness and humanity to assist an injured person down 50+ flights of stairs or that we would "stay with a friend" who was wheelchair bound till help arrived as well as a few other moments scattered throughout the book... __________________ Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.