Rolling Stone: "The Word on the Street Is Run" (Jimmy Breslin's first-hand account of 9/11)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9/11: The Word on the Street Is Run

Legendary newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin was on Liberty Street, just two blocks from the WTC, when Tower One collapsed.

By Jimmy Breslin
August 19, 2011 2:11 PM ET

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/9-11-the-word-on-the-street-is-run-20110819



A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center.
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The following article appeared in the October 25, 2001 issue of Rolling Stone. It is reprinted here to mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

"I was digging, and then they told me to come here," the firefighter said. He was dressed in a white short-sleeve shirt and a green plaid kilt, and if you think this sounds unusual then you should have been in Queens County, which is part of New York City, in the middle of September. The men in kilts are Fire Department bagpipers. This one was sent to a Catholic church in a neighborhood called Middle Village.

He was waiting around until it was time to pipe Mike Weinberg out of the church. It was a good assignment. It gave the guy a couple of hours away from digging through wreckage.

"Yesterday I found a tie that was knotted," he said.

"You know how you get a tie that's knotted and there's nothing else with it, don't you?" he said.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. ty for posting that. I missed it at the time it came out.