Having ignored the premonition to stay home, Ed Bonny was now content from a full breakfast in the World Trade Center mall with his wife, Pat. After delivering her safely to her training class on the sixty-first floor, Ed Bonny was comfortably seated at his desk on the seventy-first floor of the North Tower. He was located in the northeast quadrant near the east windows of the 40,000-square-foot floor, 3,560 square feet shy of one square acre. “Close enough for government work,” was the worn-out joke.
