By Jerry Mazza
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And to the north, silver green, glassy, shining, the new Tower 7, lucky Larry’s baby, looked down, ominously alone if not mostly empty, reminding us it never was hit by a plane, but somehow “was pulled,” and somehow was the first and only Tower to be rebuilt. After all, Larry owned it, not just leased it like the other buildings, and managed to make upwards of $500 million on its rebuilding. It is now the headquarters of Silverstein Properties.
Larry’s exact words were . . ."I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire and I said, 'We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse.” Ah, “someone said to pull it.”
Someone asked, “Is that Tower 7?” I said, “Yes. And that’s Vesey Street. South of it used to be Tower 6, the Customs House building; behind it the North Tower, behind that the South Tower." I spoke in the faint lulls in the chants and Alex’s voice. Two young guys asked me more questions. I was happy to answer. Others chimed in. We had a chat room before you knew it. Everyone had info, nothing had gone unnoticed.
Democracy was still alive if seriously wounded in America. And this was what I was yearning to hear and see, the public voice raised to max volume. The tiers of police were hearing it, too, as were firemen. One near us wore a faint smile that said in silence, “Jesus, they know about the cutter charges, the explosions, top and bottom.” Yes, we knew about it...