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The missing Eskimo fireman. (Scan).(Brief Article)
Less than 12 hours after the two planes crash into the World Trade Center, three firemen are caught on camera hoisting the American flag amidst the devastation and horror of Ground Zero. The picture, reminiscent of the famed Iwo Jima photo, becomes the perfect image for a statue commemorating the 343 firemen killed while saving others.
The New York City Fire Department commissions a design for a statue carefully modeled after the real-life photograph, incorporating virtually every detail. Well, not quite. You see, those three firemen happened to be white. So the statue was changed to give one firefighter a Hispanic face, another a black one.
But why did race have to be injected where it had no relevance? The fact that the statue is of firemen, not pastry chefs, by definition represents all firemen. The notion that specific racial categories are required to honor heroic deeds should be offensive to any American.
Besides, if racializing is so ...
- Architect's Vision for New York Trade Center Site First Step in Rebuilding.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 28, 2003 700+ words
...visitor to the World Trade Center site might encounter...rebuilding Ground Zero. New York officials, including...Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...a land swap with New York City, in which it would give the trade center site to the city...
- Death Count.(Air crashes and New York World Trade Center disaster of Sep 11,...
- Newspaper article from: Linux Gram September 17, 2001 700+ words
...vicinity of the World Trade Center were still missing at...rubble that was the World Trade Center." Six were described...and was near the World Trade Center when the first plane...tenants included the New York Stock Exchange, Commerzbank...
- NY CU With Offices In WTC Joins Shared Network.(XCEL Federal Credit Union, New...
- Magazine article from: Credit Union Journal November 12, 2001 700+ words
...the collapse of the World Trade Center, have officially joined the New York State Shared Service Centers...their office in the World Trade Center, in order to learn more...branches that participate in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
- Landmark Education Corporation Resumes Full Operations 24 Hours Following The...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 26, 2001 700+ words
NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark...world, has resumed full operations in New York City despite having the largest of their...in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. Although their...
- Host Marriott Corp. received net insurance proceeds of about $370 million to...
- Magazine article from: Hotel & Motel Management Simon, Elaine February 16, 2004 700+ words
...about $370 million to settle claims for the New York World Trade Center Marriott and New York Marriott Financial Center hotels, which were...to repay the $65 million debt of the World Trade Center Marriott. The remaining proceeds will be used...
- Clouds Hit Visions for Resurrection of New York World Trade Center.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 22, 2002 700+ words
...Haberman, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune...designs for the World Trade Center that caused such a stir...member of the design group New York New Visions, which has...2002, Daily News, New York. Distributed by Knight...
- Officials: Terror plotters targeted flood wall at New York's Trade Center site.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 14, 2006 700+ words
...water out of the World Trade Center site, two law enforcement...river and connect to the Trade Center site. The plot also...suspects could come to New York and become a more serious...the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has...
- Architect Presents Winning Design for New York World Trade Center Memorial.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 15, 2004 700+ words
...winning memorial design for the World Trade Center presented his vision yesterday...once-unknown designer for the New York City Housing Authority who has...the master planner for the World Trade Center site, encouraged Arad to expose...
- IN NEW YORK.(World Trade Center attacks)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Journal Robertson, Rory September 15, 2001 700+ words
"I was maybe 250 yards from the World Trade Center when I looked up and saw the second plane fly directly above me. I didn't watch...not a nation, that had attacked. He said it didn't matter." --Rory Robertson New York City
- Port Authority Decision on New York's World Trade Center is Delayed.(Originated...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Frank, Al August 20, 1997 700+ words
...also wanted time for new New York commissioners to be briefed...Madelon DeVoe Talley, a New York commissioner who died...comment on whether the New York mayoral race was affecting the pace of trade center deliberations. Other...
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