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TOWER LIGHT
continued
from page one
moments ago. Breathe the dust
and ash. It’s everywhere.
The destruction at Ground
Zero is a reality engraved not
only in Bell’s mind-but every
other American’s mind.
However, last Monday.
March 11, Ground Zero looked
quite different to the crowds of
people standing on the streets
of New York.
They were there to watch
two towering beams of light
shoot through the sky, ghostly
reminders of the towers that
once stood there.
Men and women looked up,
their eyes filling with tears
once again. Several planes
swept the sky, on this night a
much-appreciated security.
The beams, cominlssioned
by the city of New York on the
sixth-month anniversary of
Sept. 11, will light the sky
through the month of April as a
memorial to the victims-and
as an emblem of unity.
“One good thing, if any. is
the unity. People don’t take
things for granted now,” said
Officer Aguay of the NYPD
who was at Ground Zero on
this anniversary.
Aguay and other NYPD
police officers became the
heroes of Sept. 11.
And the streets are still full
of these heroes.
On that Monday New York’s
finest were still giving the
relief efforts all diey had.
Officer Osurio was
stationed on one of the nearby
bridges to help the people on
Sept. 11.
“It looked like a New York
City Marathon,” he said, “but
we are out here to do our jobs.
There was really no time to
stop and think. When
everyone was running out. the
emergency workers were
running the other way."
Osurio, along with countless
others, did not give a sec
ond thought to his job.
However, he—like every
other hero involved in the
aftermath-could not
withstand stoicism for long.
“I went home that night and
just held my daughters.”
Even now, Osurio is still
shocked every time he sees
Ground Zero, an area
resembling more of a construc
tion sight with only a gaping
hole where the famous towers
once stood.
“New Yorkers have had to
face this every day; we are get
ting used to it--moving on.”
said Officer Wagner. “People
from out of town come out
here at 3 a.m. to look and cry.
They are still dealing with it.”
However, unlike Osurio,-
Wagner said that “you get used
to it after a while.”
When asked how they feel
about being a New York City
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all agreed that they were just
doing their jobs.
Each police officer now
wears a black band around
their badge as a sign of mourn
ing for the lost members of the
NYPD,
Emily Yount, a junior at
N.C. State, went to New York
the weekend after Sept. 11 and
was back on this anniversary.
“Life goes on. Then there
was just silence,” she said.
“Now the talk and noise of
New York is back.”
Bell who now goes to the
doctor every sixty days for
chest x-rays, said that “the city
has recovered well, people just
want to talk about it.”
Life continues, as America
looks for meaning, but the
heart wrenching challenge peo
ple like Bell, Aguay, Osurio,
Wagner, Yount and thousands
of other Americans face is to
remember-and continue to
rebuild buildings and lives in
memory of those who
perished.
On a memorial wall full of
pictures and letters, a letter
captures the heartbreak-if that
is even possible:
“Dear Jimmy. I miss you
more every day. My heart is
broken. You are more than my
brother, you are my friend. I
love you so much. T^lk to you
later. Love, me.”
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Harris said that she still feels
that Meredith is a safe place.
“They’re just stolen
computers. Nobody was
physically hurt,” said Harris.
Officer William Moore of
Campus Police agreed that
Meredith is still a safe campus,
but would not comment
further on the stolen laptop
reports he filed for faculty such
as Britt.
Moore said he could not
comment without official
approval from Campus Police
Chief Frank Strickland.
Strickland was unavailable
for comment.
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