The Port Authority Transcripts

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On Thurday, the Port Authority at last released hundreds of pages of transcripts of
telephone conversations and radio transmissions recorded on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
It takes only a few pages of reading to rekindle the intensity of those hours just
after the first plane struck the north tower of the WTC. In a real sense,
these transcripts and the recordings on which they are based are forensic documents. They
help piece together a clearer picture of how Port Authority employees responded to the
almost impossible crisis of that moring. The mistakes that were made --were more than
counterbalanced by genuinely heroic efforts to free others trapped in burning offices or disabled elevators.

snap it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/opinion/30SAT1.html?ex=1062820800&en=b44541117fd21811&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

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1. Ed, I did no heroic deed, I was a laborer — John

SGT. JOHN MARIANO

"I responded to the W.T.C. Command Post on Sept. 11 along with Police Officer Jeff Haner at approximately 11:45 with supplies — gloves, masks, flashlight. Upon delivering items to the command post, we proceeded to the disaster site and assisted other agencies with debris removal.

(A handwritten postscript is added, addressed to Lt. Edward Gulch: "Ed, I did no heroic deed, I was a laborer — John")

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/30/nyregion/30WTC.html?pagewanted=2&hp

Hero enough, John Mariano. We're all laborers...

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2. You are a hero, John.

There are those who did nothing.

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3. A look of a an insipid fool

not an inspired or better yet a shocked person.

.........and junior is president and never held a job in his life. A sliver spoon had been injected in his ass at birth.

[VolcanoJen]

4. Not LBN.... moving to Editorials and Other Articles

This article appears on the New York Times' Op/Ed page, and is better suited for the Editorials forum.

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