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The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission
Touchstone
September 2006
On Sale: August 28, 2006
256 pages ISBN: 0743291867 EAN: 9780743291866 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade
Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at
Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of
operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his
own struggle to make peace with all that he saw
there. On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority
Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond
to the attack on the World Trade Center. When the towers
collapsed, thirty-seven of its officers were killed -- the
largest loss of law enforcement officers in U.S.
history. That afternoon, Lieutenant William Keegan
began the work of recovery. The FDNY and NYPD had the
territory, but Keegan had the map. PA cops could stand on
top of six stories of debris and point to where a stairwell
had been; they used PATH tunnels to enter "the pile" from
underneath. Closure includes many never-before-told
stories, including how Keegan and his officers recovered
1,000 tons of gold and silver from a secret vault to keep
the Commodities Exchange from crashing; discovered what
appeared to be a black box from one of the planes that hit
the towers; and helped raise the inspirational steel beam
cross that has become the site's icon. For nine
brutal months, the men at Ground Zero wrestled with 1.8
million tons of shattered concrete, twisted steel, body
parts, political pressure, and their own grief.
Closure tells the unforgettable story of their
sacrifice and valor, and how Keegan led the smallest of all
the uniformed services at the site to become the most valuable.
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