The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11

by Garrett M. Graff

I want you to know that you made my life.

There were so many beautiful and bitter-sweet final proclamations of love that fateful day, but there was just something about this particular one that really got me. These words are seared into my heart and mind.

I think he wouldn’t have had it any other way. It was as if he took the lead—all those angels, right through heaven’s gates. That’s what it seemed like to us. If any of those guys were confused on the way up, he was there to ease the transition from this life to the next.

What a beautiful sentiment

‘Religion is outraged when outrage is done in its name’—Gandhi.”

And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts. . . . Today,