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for those who don't have NYT accounts

Since I'm not sure of the word count allowed on an entry - and because it's a very long piece - this is only part one.

( Fighting to Live as the Towers Died. )

Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Two.

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Three

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Four

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Five

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Six

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - Part Seven

This is the last of the article. It's no easier to read than the rest, but it is worth it. Providing, of course, that it isn't just words to you.

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I started reading it much earlier - I haven't yet been able to read it straight through. And kenhighcountry has already said almost everything I could say, better than I could have said it. But I'm going to borrow the one line from him, and also add the only thing I can add. What I see in the account isn't just heroism, horror, shock, a Cause. All of those are there if you look for them, and so much more - but above and beyond them, I see humanity. The best and the worst of it - of us. And right now, it's a stunning thing to me, that I was born a part of this race that can do such things, be such things. Ken said: We are the living, and it is our responsibility to live. To me, right this second, it seems that it's also our responsibility to live up to this label of humanity that we take for granted so often.