September 16: The Last Roll Call

A Defining Moments For His Presidency

In one horrific morning, the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon transformed not only the nation but the presidency of George W. Bush.

In the City, Flags Are Everywhere

Draped over trucks, stuck into backpacks, taped to taxi aerials, worn as bandannas under hard hats, or flying as banners - the American flag was raised high on the urban landscape this week, as New Yorkers expressed a wave of patriotism brought on by the World Trade Center tragedy.

Dennis Duggan: Even at Death's Door, Ministering to Others

When Cardinal Edward Egan said that yesterday's splendid, nearly three-hour Mass of Christian Burial for the Rev. Mychal Judge was a "last farewell" for the one and only fire chaplain, I thought about a photograph Judge cherished.

Jimmy Breslin: Public Displays Not for Everyone

"Where was it?" I ask. "There," she says. "Between those two buildings." I am in my bedroom in the morning and I am looking straight downtown at the place where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center always stood for all to see in their high silvery commercial grandeur and glory.

Art Imitates Life In Mourning City

Jon Vanjonson hopped off his bike as soon as he saw the spray-painted walls and dozens of lit candles. Like so many other mourners who've stopped off at this corner in Alphabet City, Vanjonson felt the need to leave his mark.

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The First of Its Farewells

A grieving city rocked by the carnage of the World Trade Center terror attack began burying its heroes yesterday, starting with ranking members of a Fire Department staggered by the loss of hundreds of New York's Bravest.

Marrow Donor ' Moved Mountains'

On a late summer day in 1994, Queens rescue firefighter Terrence Farrell had lunch with a 6-year-old girl in a frilly white dress on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center, to celebrate the life he had given her.

A Firefighter, a Hero 'That's Billy'

Capt. William F. Burke Jr. had just led people to safety out of Tower Two of the World Trade Center. He told the firefighter with him to leave and then went back into the building to look for more civilians. Seconds later, the tower collapsed, Burke's brother James said Friday.

A New Appetite for Old Glory

They fluttered on Long Island Expressway overpasses, westbound and eastbound. Waved from the antennas of sports cars and SUVs. Hugged the sides of above-ground swimming pools. And they flapped from front porches from Port Washington to Patchogue.

Bush Calls Bin Laden 'Prime Suspect'

Washington - President George W. Bush yesterday branded Osama bin Laden the "prime suspect" in Tuesday's terror attacks, the first time the president himself has named the Saudi fugitive as the most-likely culprit.

The Week That Changed Us All

At lunchtime, James Staton often stands on the cobblestone apron below the Brooklyn Bridge and gazes across the East River to Manhattan. "I love to look at the skyline," said Staton, 35, a heating systems technician. "It's just so peaceful here."

Massive DNA Testing

Saying there is little chance of finding any more intact bodies in the World Trade Center wreckage, officials are gearing up for the largest forensic DNA screening operation in history, outstripped only by the decade long Human Genome Project.

Detectives Alert for Rings, Tattos

A finger with a wedding band on it. An arm bearing a tattoo.

Taking Care of Businesses

The electricity was on but the phones and Internet were down at Fredericks Michael & Co.'s offices at 2 Wall St. yesterday. A fine layer of dust coated the desks and the air was thick with the smells of acrid smoke and Lysol. In each of the investment bank's offices there was evidence of people having made a hasty escape Tuesday.

City Overflows With Volunteers

If you wanted to know how the rescue workers at ground zero keep going, the answer could be found outside the Jacob Javits Center yesterday.

Concern Over Lost Legal Papers

As the city struggles to get back to normal, attorneys are trying to determine the fate of thousands of legal documents that may have been lost in the World Trade Center destruction.

The Party's Over in the City for Now

They sipped chai and lattes at Cafe Pick Me Up, hoping the East Village coffee shop would live up to its name.

VOICES

"After what happened, I don't think I'll be going to Met games for at least this season and maybe next year also. And with the planes constantly flying over Shea, it'll make me a little uneasy. It'll kind of freak me out. Anything could happen anywhere and the people at the venues can't do anything to [prevent] that from happening. It's going to take a while until I feel secure anywhere . . . And don't think I'll be the only person that feels that way. I think there's going to be a drop in attendance at a lot of these sports places. After a year, everything will be back to normal."

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GOOD NEWS TIMES THREE

When the World Trade Center towers collapsed, Joe Andruzzi, a 315-pound lineman with the New England Patriots, was frantic with fear - times three.

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RICHTER TRIES FOR FOCUS

The Rangers, who ordinarily would be in Vermont for training camp, chose to hold camp at Madison Square Garden this year, giving fans an early look at the team. Instead, Wednesday's opening was canceled, and the rest of the workouts were moved to their usual practice facility in Rye.

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Army Robots to Help Rescuers

A high-tech squad of military search-and-rescue professionals will soon join thousands of men and women digging for bodies at ground zero. They are Army robots, declassified only for emergency purposes.

THE LAST WORD MY TURN

As We Got Closer, It Really Hit Home

SOMEWHERE between eastern Pennsylvania, when the New York radio stations at last began to come in, and Newark Airport, where the planes were still and the monorails empty, we finally understood.

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49ERS DO THEIR PART

From owner John York to kicker Jose Cortez, members of the San Francisco 49ers' organization gave 70 pints of blood.

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Firefighter's Family Refuses to Lose Hope

The family of firefighter Brian McAleese, whose unit responded to the World Trade Center tragedy, hasn't given up hope.

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Rusty Comes Through in a Pinch

Marvin Morton was a motorcycle cop in New Orleans in the late 1940s and early '50s. He was a victim of an in-the-line-of-duty accident that made victims of a different sort of his widow and two children. After his death, they lived a life of financial distress.

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Where to Get Information, Help

MISSING RESCUE WORKERS:

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Arab, Shik Cabbies Offer Free Rides

It was an offer of camaraderie, born of patriotism to the United States and increasing fear of fellow Americans.

SOCCER

Tragedy Hits Close to Home For 2 Players

The horrific events that transpired Tuesday hit close to home for the Carlos Llamosa and Jim Rooney of Major League Soccer's Miami Fusion.

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MORT'S WIFE GROUNDED

Placekicker Morten Andersen, a well-traveled adventurer who only recently signed with the Giants, was asleep in a Secaucus, N.J., hotel room when his wife called him on his cell phone. "She was supposed to come in on a flight at 9 a.m. A few minutes before she was supposed to board the plane, all the airports closed. She was going to come down for our two days off to look for a place to live. She called and said a plane crashed. I turned on CNN and saw the second plane plow into the World Trade Center, and from there, I was just like everyone else: shock, disbelief, anger, all the emotions you have when something like this happens. It was something unspeakable and incomprehensible. You can't make sense of it. It doesn't make sense to any rational human being. My twin brother [Jakob] from India called. He saw it on CNN and called me to make sure I was all right."

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Tragedy Brings Dad and Son Closer

Ben Sorin arrived home from school Tuesday, stunned by the day's events. The Comsewogue senior, who described himself as "the biggest fanatic athlete," wanted to be anywhere but on a volleyball court.

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Tight Knit, Hard Hit

Explaining something as horrific as the World Trade Center's destruction is difficult enough, especially when talking to children. But how do you explain that one victim of those attacks is the man many children thought of as Santa Claus?

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A LESSON IN PERSPECTIVE

The Chicago White Sox - here for a three-game series against the Yankees - hopped on two buses Wednesday morning and got out of New York as smoke continued to rise from a horror they never will forget.

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Board Forges Ahead on Sept. 25 Primary

The attack that obliterated the Twin Towers, forcing cancellation of Tuesday's primary elections, has rearranged the city's political landscape as well, but no one is sure exactly how - or how profoundly.

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U.S. Tightens Borders After Attacks

Law enforcement officials clamped down on U.S. borders in an effort not to repeat the oversight after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, when terrorists escaped the country within hours after the attack.

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Call for Pagers, Phones

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is collecting the cellular phone and pager numbers of people missing in the World Trade Center wreckage for use in trying to locate them.

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Agonizing Wait For Familes

Mary Ortale is doing everything she can to find her missing son, Peter. Yesterday, that included sitting still while officials took DNA from her mouth with a cotton swab.

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Braving the Skies Again

Air travelers showed composure and grace under difficult circumstances at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports yesterday as passengers crossed their fingers that the plane they were scheduled to board actually would take off.

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Delivering Messages of Faith, Hope

A message of faith and hope to promote spiritual healing will be delivered today at city houses of worship as millions of New Yorkers continue to grieve Tuesday's horrific terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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Paul Vitello: We're All on the Same Page

There is no point pretending that I am any different than you just because I happen to be on this side of the news page.

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World Feels USA's Pain

Bucharest, Romania - It was a sunny Friday here in the capital and Susan Johnson, the interim American ambassador, figured it was a good day to take a walk. She thought she would be inconspicuous. That was not the case.

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Trains, Buses Getting Swamped

As practically the only long-distance transportation games in town, Amtrak and Greyhound Lines were overwhelmed last week with added riders. How long it will last, especially once the airlines are fully operational, is anyone's guess, but some experts think it could be months before many Americans are comfortable again in airplanes.

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Airlines Make Severe Cuts

Airlines imposed drastic cutbacks yesterday in an effort to avoid bankruptcy after last week's terrorist attacks, with Continental and Northwest joining American Airlines in slicing schedules by 20 percent. Continental also furloughed one-fifth of its work force, or about 12,000 people.

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Lawmaker: Expand Federal Air Marshals

They train in a junked Boeing 727 in Atlantic City, N.J., learning how to discharge a firearm without disabling an airplane, how to take down a terrorist without taking down everyone else.

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Detained Passenger Released

Dhaval Shah, one of three passengers forcibly removed from American Airlines Flight 133 Thursday night, said he was questioned for about half an hour by Port Authority police before being released.

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To Play or Not to Play: Opinions Differ

C.W. Post played football yesterday.

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A Tense Europe Tightens Security

Paris - In an attempt to thwart any attack in Europe similar to Tuesday's airliner crashes in the United States, officials on the continent have tightened security rules on air travel and have detained and questioned numerous people thought to have connections with extremist terrorist networks.

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Brothers-in-Law At Cantor Fitzgerald

On the 105th floor of the World Trade Center, Stephen Tighe of Rockville Centre and Tim O'Brien of Old Brookville, who were brothers-in-law and fathers of young children, worked in securities trading and shared a passion for sports.

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The Lost

HOPE EMERGES strong and unyielding. Then it wanes, it wavers, it mutates.

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'This Night Is About Caring for Everyone'

John Reilly held a candle in one hand and his daughter Katie's hand in the other Friday night as he thought about how wonderfully Tuesday morning began.

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Resuming, Ready or Not

They have heard the calls for a return to normalcy. They are aware that their endeavor is considered part of society's healing process in the aftermath of tragedy, such as Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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City Moves to Fill Firefighter Ranks

The Fire Department rushed to fill top spots yesterday after the death of top commanders in the World Trade Center attack.

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Johnette Howard: One Eye on Field And One on Sky

THE METS have followed the gruesome stories and mounting toll of Tuesday's plane hijackings and terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as closely as anyone. But as the Mets drove into the parking lot at Shea Stadium yesterday to get back to work, what confronted them were a host of sobering new reminders.

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Sikh Says He Was Mistaken for Arab, Beaten

A 66-year-old man from India, who follows the Sikh religion and wears a turban, was beaten Tuesday by men who mistook him for an Arab and blamed him for Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the man and his relatives say.

A WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE ROADS & RAILS ON LONG ISLAND

Stop & Go

Hours after both towers of the World Trade Center were leveled in terrorist attacks Tuesday, the metropolitan area found itself under siege.

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Hundreds of asbestos cleanup workers representing more than a dozen local unions and several contractors continued the massive and delicate task of removing the contaminant yesterday from buildings damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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The Road Not Taken

Joel Barone made a promise to himself when he signed his letter of intent to play football at Brown. "I said, 'I better travel by the first game of my junior year,'" the former All-State and All-Long Island player from Floyd recalled.

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Yes, They Played

Lowell, Mass. - From the locker room, Blayney McEneaney and his C.W. Post teammates could not hear the national anthem being sung. Nor could most people in the stands of Cushing Field yesterday.