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"Never forget!" Recommended reading on 9/11
Here’s a collection of what I consider the best writing on 9/11 available online today. Feel free to add your own nominees in the comments section.

Eyewitness accounts and immediate reactions

Daniel Henninger, "I saw it all. Then I saw nothing." Wall Street Journal September 12, 2001

John Labriola, First-person account & Accompanying photo essay

Gedeon & Jules Naudet, 9/11 (documentary film)

John Derbyshire, "Steel and Fire and Stone" National Review Online -- written within two hours of the first attack.

James Lileks, "The Daily Bleat" 9/12/01

Peggy Noonan, "What I saw at the Devastation" Wall street Journal.


World Trade Center

Jim Dwyer, Eric Lipton, Kevin Flynn, James Glanz and Ford Fessenden. "Fighting to Live as the Towers Died" New York Times -- an incredible,
detailed reconstruction of the 102 minutes between the first attack and the final collapse.

"Mysterious ’Red Bandanna’ Man Is 9/11 Hero" WNBC-TV

Mudville Gazette (weblog), "911 Remembered: Rick Rescorla was a Soldier"

Vincent Druding, "Ground Zero: a Journal" First Things

Steve Fishman, "The Miracle Survivors" New York Magazine

Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising"


Flight 93

Dennis B. Roddy, et al., "Flight 93: forty lives, one destiny" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Dave Berry, "On Hallowed Ground." Syndicated column

Neil Young, "Let’s Roll"


General Commentary

George W. Bush , Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People September 20, 2001

Editorial, "Common Valor" Wall Street Journal

Rod Dreher, "The Hole in the Skyline" National Review Online

James Lileks, "The Daily Bleat" 9/13/01, 9/14/01, the week of 9/17-21/01, & 9/11/02; "9/11’s horror is as fresh as ever" (syndicated column)

Peggy Noonan, "Courage Under Fire," "What We have Learned," "Time to Put the Emotions Aside," & "A Heart, a Cross, a Flag" Wall Street Journal
Posted by: Mike 2003-09-10
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