September 11, 2001, was the lucid interval in American history where catastrophe revealed latent courage within so many. Amid the horror, greatness surfaced everywhere, from ordinary people doing extraordinary things because duty demanded it. 

The day is staggering because of how many people ran straight into certain death to rescue as many as they could. Thousands of first responders, firefighters and police officers, saved thousands of lives knowing that they might lose theirs. Brooklyn........

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