I read was American Ground: Unbuilding The World Trade Center by William Langewiesche.
The author William Langewiesche is a well-known award winning journalist who covered the
World Trade Center clean-up as well as the Iraq War and modern ocean piracy but before the writing career started he was a professional pilot (Langewiesche 1). It provided me great information and gave me insight on the terrorist attacks and the clean up of the disaster since
I was too young to remember what actually happened. Langewiesche did not only just give a sense of actually being there but also …show more content…
In part one Langewiesche virtually places you in the blocks surrounding the World
Trade Center when the second plane was about to crash by saying, “He saw the North Tower standing, but not the South. He thought, "‘Wait a minute. The North Tower is there. I know the
North Tower is there. But what happened to the South?’ It was confounding, and he could not
Ryan Waller Ms. Motley Government 12 DE 26 February 2016 conceive of an answer. He was an engineer, but human, too. He walked on for a while, until for the second time that day he heard a roar. He stopped and turned and watched in disbelief as the North Tower fell”(Langewiesche p. 58). This quote was from a engineer that
Langewiesche interviewed in some of the days following the plane crashes when he witnessed the North Tower falling in disbelief. He interviewed many of on site workers such as doctors, police officers, firefighters, and engineers that showed true American ingenuity when these true professionals pitched in the effort to help America recover from the serious attack that many consider as one of the worst days in history since the bombing of Pearl Harbor