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don't askFor New Yorkers it felt like a flashback to Sept. 11.
At 3:36 P.M. on Aug. 18, 2007, came a report that a skyscraper was burning about 150 feet from where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers once stood.
Thick black smoke was pouring out of the shell of what used to be the Deutsche Bank building...
The tombstone at Ground Zero
New York landmark's storied past
Apparently the neighborhood surrounding the Deutsche Bank building near Ground Zero has a rich history..
Heres a splice from a book called 'American Ground' that I gleaned from Amazon, looks excellent.
"Most of the rooms (of the Deutsche Bank dining area) had been unoccupied at the time of the attack, and were set for lunch-with fresh place mats, plates, and utensils, and sets of stemmed glasses, some of which had been capsized and broken by the pressure waves and lay now as they had fallen, like everything else here, under a feathery gauze of the Twin Towers' remains."
You should check it out. In it you can also read about :
David Griffin, a demolition expert who drove up from North Carolina, bluffed his way onto the restricted site, and quickly wound up in a position of authority
Although the book was published in 2003 on the 2nd anniversary of the attacks, something tells me that this book is not destined for the scrap or book bargain basment:
"The one book to read, if you're only reading one."
--Detroit Free Press
"Slim but powerful . . . truth, unclouded by sentiment."
--The New York Times Book Review
"One of the most compelling, dramatic, and uplifting pieces of writing you are likely ever to read."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Extraordinary . . . An amazing piece of journalism, full of colorful characters and astonishing scenes."
--Peter Carlson, The Washington Post
"Says more about our essential character than a thousand maudlin tributes."
--Boris Kachka, New York- -
Post-publication date a lot has happened to the old Bankers Trust Building (in 1999 the German company Deutsche Bank had absorbed the Bankers Trust Corporation) as indicated in the posted stories above.
It was almost 5 years later after the attacks, that they had found bones there.
This was a very important discovery since of the 2,749 people who perished at the World Trade Center site on 9/11, no trace of 1,151 had (or have been) been identified.
Now theres talk of putting residential towers there for people to live in.
Yak yak yak yak
Yak yak yak yak!
Take care. Yours truly - Mach
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