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"You are the real heroes," Sen. Charles Schumer, 12 September, 2001, personal communication. I don't believe in heroism - in putting a few folks up on a pedestal as somehow braver or stronger than others. I think we should all push our potentials and do what we can both to dream and live a world of compassion. I've heard many stories of people taking brave or loving actions in response to the events of September 11, including my sister caring for two children whose mother did not come out of the World Trade Center buildings; a firefighter whose eyes I flushed who had saved someone from the 51st floor, yet whose partner did not come back out of the building; the Arab-American students who counterprotested the Republican rally for war on my campus...

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  • "You are the real heroes," Sen. Charles Schumer, 12 September, 2001, personal communication. I don't believe in heroism - in putting a few folks up on a pedestal as somehow braver or stronger than others. I think we should all push our potentials and do what we can both to dream and live a world of compassion. I've heard many stories of people taking brave or loving actions in response to the events of September 11, including my sister caring for two children whose mother did not come out of the World Trade Center buildings; a firefighter whose eyes I flushed who had saved someone from the 51st floor, yet whose partner did not come back out of the building; the Arab-American students who counterprotested the Republican rally for war on my campus...
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  • "You are the real heroes," Sen. Charles Schumer, 12 September, 2001, personal communication. I don't believe in heroism - in putting a few folks up on a pedestal as somehow braver or stronger than others. I think we should all push our potentials and do what we can both to dream and live a world of compassion. I've heard many stories of people taking brave or loving actions in response to the events of September 11, including my sister caring for two children whose mother did not come out of the World Trade Center buildings; a firefighter whose eyes I flushed who had saved someone from the 51st floor, yet whose partner did not come back out of the building; the Arab-American students who counterprotested the Republican rally for war on my campus... A week after September 11, a crust of light grey, muddied ash still rimmed the edges of my boots. I remember watching the television images of the World Trade Center buildings falling to the ground. I sat amidst a crowd of people with my friends Ingrid Bauer and Josh Pushkin on the floor of the Cornell University bookstore. On t.v., ash and dust poured from the sky. I commented to Ingrid that it looked like a blizzard, the white dust settling on the cars and the street. The next day I walked through that ash. My friend Brian Dominick and I, both of us recently certified EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians), had driven all night into the city to see what we could do to help. We ended up at St. Vincent's Hospital, one of the major trauma centers in New York City, working in a decontamination area (Decon). Mostly we, like all of the other medical personel, waited. And waited. Waited in the hopes that the ambulances would bring living people needing treatment out of the rubble to our curbside. In Decon, we treated firefighters and police officers who had been injured at "the Site," what's now being called "Ground Zero," the area where the World Trade Centers once stood.
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