TALK EXCLUSIVE
with CHELSEA CLINTON
Posted on 11/16/2001 10:57:55 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
TALK EXCLUSIVE
with CHELSEA CLINTON
Chelsea Clinton Speaks Out for the First Time in a Personal Account of the September 11 Tragedy and Its Aftermath
The December 2001/January 2002 issue of Talk magazine—on newsstands in New York November 9, and nationally November 16—features an exclusive testimonial by Chelsea Clinton about her experiences watching the World Trade Center collapse from 12 blocks away and her life in the aftermath. In her own words, Clinton powerfully details the horrors of that day, the maelstrom of panic, the loss of life, and the triumph of spirit.
"Chelsea’s story is an incredibly powerful and personal one," says Tina Brown, editor-in- chief of Talk magazine. "Her story is eloquently told. Her perspective is both insightful and provocative. Chelsea’s story proves her to be a gifted writer, mature beyond her years."
"Before September 11 I wouldn’t have believed I had many innocences left." So begins Clinton’s intensely emotional account. Clinton was alone at a friend’s Union Square apartment in Manhattan that morning, when her friend phoned to tell her what had happened; then Chelsea tried to call her mother, but the line went dead. Panicked, Clinton suddenly found herself running downtown—"the direction everyone was coming from"—in search of a pay phone, desperate to speak to her mother, in Washington, and her father, far away in Australia.
 As she reeled from the tragedy in her midst, Clinton also rallied at the sense of community around her: "I have never felt such a strong sense of belonging…as I did that day. Thousands upon thousands of New Yorkers were moving as one. That’s when I realized that I had become a New Yorker. I expect now that I’ll always be one." Clinton also recounts her eagerness to have her father return to Manhattan and show him around: "I wanted my father there—not only to understand what had happened to the city but also to understand what was happening to me. I knew he would want to connect with everyone who was confused and suffering, including his daughter." Clinton describes the joy she felt when she was finally reunited with her mother the day after the attacks, and when she saw her father the morning after that. "It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my skin." It was with her father that Clinton first visited ground zero, where she found herself overwheled by the scope of the damage. "The hardest part was walking through the makeshift morgue to thank the clergy members who were there blessing victims’ remains. To this day I can’t imagine where they found the strength and will." Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton describes the alienation and difficulty of being away from America at this time. "Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling." But Clinton’s time abroad is also giving her greater insight into her American identity. "For more than 21 years I lived with the assumption that I was safe, with a sense of security so profound I didn’t even know I had it. Today I find myself shocked into a new awareness of how much I loved the country I grew up in." |
This is a slap in the face of all the people who were at the WTC and really do have something to say. Tina Brown is a cretin.
yeah right...does anyone with half a brain think the secret service would have encouraged this, much less allowed it? Sheesh. What crap.
| Since arriving in England to take a post-graduate course at Oxford Miss Clinton has complained about anti-American feeling she encountered after the attacks and said she felt the need to stick with her fellow countrymen at the university. But she said she had been overwhelmed by the support she had received since writing a magazine article expressing her concerns. She said: “I have received so much support. I do have non-American friends at the university now and I am very happy with my course. The workload is fine and Dad is very happy too.” The concert featured the Oscar-winning stars Kevin Spacey and Dame Judi Dench, along with Lord Lloyd-Webber, Lord Attenborough, Art Garfunkel and Joan Collins. Tickets cost up to £525 and the show raised £450,000. The money will be shared between families of the victims and Afghans suffering from war and drought. |
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001531979,00.html
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