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Nasypany was a major in the Air National Guard, working as a mission control commander at the Northeast Air Defense Sector, or NEADS (pronounced knee-ads). NEADS was part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, the military organization with the daunting task of safeguarding the skies over the United States and Canada.
day earlier, the silver-haired Father Mychal had rededicated a renovated firehouse in the Bronx, where he reminded firefighters of an essential truth about their work: “You show up,11 you put one foot in front of another. You get on the rig and you go out and you do the job, which is a mystery and a surprise. You have no idea when you get on that rig, no matter how big the call, no matter how small, you have no idea what God’s calling you to. But He needs you. He needs me. He needs all of us. . . . So keep going.” When Mayor Rudy Giuliani reached the trade center, he’d call out to Father
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Not including the hijackers, 2,977 men, women, and children were known to have been killed on the four planes and at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Among the dead were 1,462 people in the North Tower, 630 in the South Tower, 421 emergency responders in New York, 246 passengers and crew members on the planes, and 125 men and women in the Pentagon. No one died on the ground at Shanksville.
The name came from a statement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”23
Jay sensed eyes upon him, so he turned around to see about twenty Chinese men following him at a respectful distance. One fell in step alongside Jay. “You okay?” the man asked. “Yeah,” Jay said, “I’m okay as long as I keep going. If I stop, I’m not going to want to start again.” “Where you going?” “The firehouse on Canal and Allen.” “Okay,” the man said, “we’ll make sure you get there.”
