The New York City SAKS FIFTH AVENUE store windows were blacked out andpoignantly read "WITH SADNESS."
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The "World Trade Cross" still sits at Ground Zero where it was found and mountedon a concrete pedestal in October 2001.
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The author's photos in her scrapbook from Ground Zero.
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The view looking south on 5th Avenue on 9/11/01 right after the towers fell.
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Streams of emergency vehicles whizzed by towards downtown.
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The author's 9/11 scrapbook
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The author saved all her letters she received from friends and family after9/11.
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Ground Zero a few weeks after the attacks.
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The Tribute in Light is an art installation in remembrance of the September 11attacks. It initially ran as a temporary installation from March 11 to April14, 2002 and has continued to run annually on September 11th.
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An encouraging email from a friend that was working for the President at theWhite House in Washington D.C. The author saved every email she received fromfriends and family about 9/11.
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Countless shrines filled the city.
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Images of the missing haunted the city.
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Time Inc, the company Meredith Riddle worked for at the time of the attacks,raised money to buy a new fire truck for Engine 23. Engine 23 was the Firehouseof her friend and coworker at Teen People Magazine whose husband was afirefighter and first responder who perished on 9/11.
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Pieces of the towers that remained barely standing.
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The American flag stood tall above Ground Zero.
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Smoke filled the streets.
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Flowers placed in memory of the fallen.
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The enormous scale of the rubble and debris was unbelievable.
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Just a few weeks after 9/11 is the view of the Washington Monument behind thegnarled Pentagon.
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The author took this photo from the balcony of her sister's boyfriend's (nowhusband) apartment on Sept. 3, 2001, just eight days before the New York Cityskyline forever changed.
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Many months after 9/11, on a flight from Houston Hobby back to New York LaGuardia, the author took an aerial view of Ground Zero.
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The view in front of the iconic Flatiron Building with the mushroom of smoke inthe background. Note the gold clock in the photo. It was exactly 11:15 a.m., 47minutes after the towers fell.
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With no time to turn off her computer as her building evacuated, the author'sinstant messages written during the attacks were still on the screen when shereturned to work days later; their panicked words were frozen in time.