Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York

Authors: Von Essen, Thomas
Publisher: William Morrow
BISAC/Subject: BIO000000, POL040000, SOC008000
ISBN: 9780062041487, Related ISBNs: 0062041487, 9780060556648, 9780062041487
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

The Site

May 30, 2002

"How will we ever get through this?" is the question I asked on the night of September 11.

"How?"

Maybe the answer is here, all around me. Not just in the cleanup, not just in the purpose demonstrated by all who came and labored in these months.

The answer is in the enduring spirits of all assembled here. That, for me, is the miracle in all of this: having looked horror in the face, we bear the pain without losing heart.

-- Thomas Von Essen

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