Volume 81, Number 15 | September 8 - 14, 2011
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Looking back at 9/11 • A special Villager supplement
Out of the Ashes
Photos by Lawrence White
Disaster on an epic scale: ‘It looked like a movie’
Above, people fleeing in shock and panic as the World Trade Center’s South Tower came crashing down on 9/11. Below, a bit earlier, smoke spewing from the fatally stricken Twin Towers after they were hit by hijacked, fuel-laden passenger jets. A common comment heard that day was “It looked like a disaster movie.”
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