The Man Who Refused to Sit on the Sidelines
Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.
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Revisit this Pulitzer Prize–winning 2021 story about grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning after 9/11.
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His insistence during an overseas trip on championing democracy in foreign policy is now a relic.
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The September 11 attacks inspired a sense of national unity that has since been shattered.
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The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11, while 79 of his employees died. He’s still searching for permission to move on. (From 2021)
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I thought of home as a waiting room, the place I had to be until I could go somewhere else. Then I left, and missed it terribly. (From 2021)
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“A great many, who have spent their lives in cities, and have never chanced to come into the country at this season, have never seen this, the flower, or rather the ripe fruit, of the year.” (From 1862)
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