As his own retirement neared, Jay sat one autumn afternoon inside a Bronx firehouse whose red door displayed two angels kneeling with a hunched firefighter. Above it, in elaborate script, was inscribed THE DAY THE ANGELS CRIED, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. Jay poured black coffee, closed his office door, and returned to 9/11. He told how Ladder 6 climbed into Stairwell B of the North Tower, how they saved Josephine and she saved them, and how so many innocent, brave people died at the hands of murderous zealots. Scene by scene, stair by stair, Jay told the story of heroes named Irons Man Billy Butler,
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