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Review: September 11: an Oral History

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In the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks was released volume "September 11: an Oral History" by the journalist New York Times Dean E. Murphy. As the title suggests, the book contains the testimonies of those who experienced the attacks firsthand. We come across since

now in the words vivid and full of emotions of the protagonists. We enter the living experience of those endless stairs confronted by the smell of acrid smoke and a stream of water polluted with a colleague who is blind assisted by his guide dog. We know the pain of those who had to abandon a friend quadriplegic overweight and waiting for aid that they could not save him and perished with him. We read of those who, to save others, he found himself moving heavy objects, amazed by his physical strength, which does not even have believed. We know an employee of the Pentagon, concerned about the fate of his brother who worked at the World Trade Center and found itself in a very similar experience after the crash of American Airlines Flight 77.

While rich flow extraordinary stories of pain, fear and hope, the reader expects to get to read a story "normal", the story of someone who is out of the Towers or having witnessed the crash of American Flight 77 into the Pentagon and has particular differences compared to the hundreds of other people. But it soon became clear that stories of "normal" just are not there, and every story about the 11 / 9 has something special, something that makes it unique in its human and emotional aspects.

It should be noted that none of the testimonies gathered by Murphy says the conspiracy theories. No survivors of the World Trade Center talks about explosion mysterious and none of the witnesses of the Pentagon no doubt that an airliner has crashed into the building's facade.

Murphy's book gives us a very powerful and exciting glimpse of what happened on 11 / 9, and it is thanks to books like this commendable that the words of witnesses may be eternal and pass on to future generations, because the memory of massacres in New York and Washington never lose.