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It is heartbraking to think of the brave firemen, EMTs and Policemen who died in the collapse of those towers. Fleeing office workers from the South Tower said that they passed a non-stop procession of Emergency personnel heading up the stairs toward the injured and dying as the citizens were scrambling down the stairwell to save their own lives. Hundreds of firemen, cops and Med Techs. Heading up to the inferno. The building collapsed soonafter. All are presumed lost.

I understand that the number of firemen lost in the collapse is really unknown because SO MANY off duty firemen from the 5 boroughs and Newark headed down to the Financial District to lend assistance. They can only really make a count of the guys that were on scheduled duty. That's real heroism. Valorous men and women giving up their lives - not because they were on the clock - but because they were needed to save citizens. Damn! You - we all -should be proud of the people in your city.

On a partisan note ... can anyone imagine the chaos that would have ensued under a Dinkins Administration? There would have been looting. For all his quirks, Rudy is going to be missed. Mark Green is gonna restart the same old, same old Dem spoils machine. NYC will be a pit again within 5 years.

Its sad to think of the heroic stories that we'll never hear. I just saw a video of a man falling like a tiny rag doll from a high floor. It got me choked up for maybe the hundreth time today. I've also been thinking about the office I used to work in there, and the people I knew a few years ago. But I know NYC will clean up, bury its dead and go on.

I'm sorry, normally I'd agree with your take on NYC's immediate future. Rudy was a real man today. I saw video of him going towards the scene and he was yelling something like "follow me" to the media and others milling about.

But I can't get past what a nightmare yeasterday was. And it was so beautiful out. A perfect day. Practically the only cloud in the sky was the one belching forth from the wreckage.

There is shock here, but real anger has arrived.