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"I'm the
smallest conch in a huge machine. My two hands are not going to make a big
difference, but I had to go back there, back to Ground Zero.
My mind still
can't comprehend digging in that rubble. I mean, I still can't comprehend,
where did everything go? Lets pick a door. How many doors were there in the
WTC? Thousands upon thousands but, I never saw a door! How about file
cabinets or computers. I never found any of that. Where did it all go? Did
it burn, get crushed or vaporize?"
"The greatest
lesson about terrorism that could have ever been given to each and every
individual American citizen, would have been to take each of them and march
them from Church Street to West Street right into the middle of the pile to
let them see first hand for themselves what 911 was all about. It's a whole
other world to go inside and see the "nothingness" firsthand. After seeing
this with their own eyes they would never ever look at anything quite the
same way ever again"
Vincent Firentino's
testimony taken by Author Barbara E. Lang, NYC Intro about their
story from the Author: Chief Coyne and his assistant Vincent Firentino from
Battalion 41, were ordered to stage with a 3rd alarm at the Brooklyn Battery
Tunnel. While they were stationed there the first tower fell. They were the
first to cross the Brooklyn Bridge after the second tower had collapsed and the
first rescuers to come up on Church Street with the numbers. They fought many
blazes, entered places that might have collapsed. Read their story in our
upcoming book.
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