(BWF-no tags) [book:On That Day: The Definitive Timeline of 9/11|57007985] 4 stars

[Joanne]

On That Day: The Definitive Timeline of 9/11 4 stars

The one and only SAD tag is mine. It belongs here IMO.

A unique, compelling book on 9/11. I picked it up not knowing the words "definitive timeline" were to be taken literally, Upon opening the book, and finishing the intro, you reach page 15, From there on this is what the text looks like:

7:55 AM I dropped my 3rd grader at school
7:56 AM Having forgotten my bottle returns, I went back home.
8:10 AM I left for the grocery store.

Although this is my own timeline for that morning, you get the idea William M. Arkin.has taken recorded timelines from all the departments of government and combined them in such a way that allows you to see the chaos and (sorry) incompetence that flourished that day. There are brief paragraphs through-out the timeline, but the example shown above is the main body of the work.

I was leery about even starting this book, but I decided to at least begin it until I could find something else to cover 9/11, a personal challenge of mine.

The book covers the political and government experience that day. Much different than the personal accounts I have read. Although it discouraged me in the beginning it became so compelling a read that I had to force myself to set it down in the evening and pick up another book to read before I fell asleep.

As I mentioned, reading a book on the subject of 9/11 each year has become a personal challenge. It is my small way of keeping the promise to never forget.