"Towering Together" A New York Times Entry

A completely new resource for me is a six-year-old web effort at awarding honors for taking pictures on September 11, 2001, and its aftermath---The Best of Photojournalism 2002. The Internet Archive has never heard of these pages before, so I don't know when they went up online. Almost the whole batch is unfamiliar to me (and where they are familiar, they are all part of the same entry,) which leads me to think they are of recent public vintage.

This eight-item entry from the New York Times come with a title and a pre-caption. I must say, their captions convey a lot of information. Sometimes the copy-and-paste function malfunctioned---or like Twitter, they were only allowed X-number of characters, as in some cases, the captions just trail off...

Story summary, individual caption follows: The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York City is the towering strength and resilience of New Yorkers.

Caption: People evacuate the burning twin towers, running across Church Street in lower Manhattan, Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 after two airplanes hit the buildings during a terrorist attack. Moments later, the first of the two towers collapsed.

Towering Together-- Caption: Thousands of people hold hands to pray and grieve together at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx during a prayer service to remember the victims of the World Trade Center attack Sunday afternoon, September 23, 2001. In the lower lefthand corner Frances Ortega hugs her daughter Quasha, 9. Ortega was supposed to be at the World Trade Center on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 for a job interview. Story summary:The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York City is the towering strength and resilience of New Yorkers.

Hundreds of flyers pleading for information about people missing are posted on a bus stop on First Avenue near Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan Monday, September 17, 2001, six days after a terrorist attack destroyed the World Trade Center. Story summary:The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York City is the towering strength and resilience of New Yorkers.

Tears run down Karen Brathwaite's face as she joins an overflow crowd of mourners outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan listening to a mass led by Cardinal Egan Monday afternoon, September 17, 2001. The mass was in honor of firefighters and policeman who perished during the terrorist attack which destroyed the World Trade Center. Story summary:The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York City is the towering strength and resilience of New Yorkers.

With the Statue of Liberty in the background, exhausted firefighters, emergency personel and volunteers take a break from their rescue efforts and head home to Staten Island via the Staten Island ferry after working for countless hours at the site of the former World Trade Center Thursday afternoon, September 13, 2001, two days after it was destroyed in the terrorist attack. Sleeping at left is volunteer EMT Maurice Duarte whose wife worked on the 92nd floor and is missing five co-workers, New York City boilermakers with the Local 5 union Bob Steakin who has been going back and forth to work at the site for three days, Steven Yandoli, Peter Giaccio and Russ Rogers. Story summary:The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York Ci

Hundreds of firefighters, policemen and rescue personel search through the tons of twisted metal and debris, remains of the World Trade Center towers, hoping to find survivors Wednesday morning, September 13, 2001, 24 hours after hijackers flew airplanes into the buildings, killing thousands, in a terrorist attack. Story summary: The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a halt temporarily it came roaring back in a show of unity and strength that shows that the real symbol of New York City is the towering strength and resilience of New Yorkers.

Covered in ash, New York City policeman Richie Adamiak, 27, leans against a food case trying to catch his breath and clear his head while taking shelter in the Stage Door Deli in lower Manhattan, across the street from the World Trade Center plaza, Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 after the first of the twin towers collapsed. The viewer sees the scene from the back of the deli, looking toward the front window where the street outside is as dark as night from the smoke and ash of the building's collapse which has not yet cleared. A firefighter, right, and a NYPD police inspector, center, also try to regain their composure. Adamiak suffered from smoke inhalation but returned to work in the Bronx's 42nd Precinct on September 18, 2001. Moments later, the second tower came down. Story summary:The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 brought down New York's two tallest buildings, killed thousands and changed the world forever. Although life in New York screeched to a h

Caption: Emergency personnel tend to a bloodied woman (her parents contacted me and requested that I never use her name to preserve her privacy) on Church Street in lower Manhattan, Tuesday morning September 11, 2001 after she was injured when two airplanes hit the World Trade Center during a terrorist attack. The woman had been in an upper lobby of the building when the airplane struck. She was evacuated and taken to a hospital just moments before the first of the two towers collapsed. Her parents reported that physically, she is doing well.