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"In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11" (HBO)
In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11. HBO. Wednesday, September 11, 9 p.m.
My parents remembered with precision just where and how they learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor. And when I first arrived at college 30 years later, late-night beers in the dorm often led to discussions of what we were doing at the moment President Kennedy was assassinated. It made us feel oh-so-ancient to imagine there were kids in the third grade who hadn't even been born when it happened.
Time and human evil march onward, and millennials have their own grim generational milepost in which the sudden, lethal intrusion of the outside world imposes a sudden burst of maturity: "I was a senior… I was 13… I think I was 15 years old at the time."
Anybody in their mid-30s will instantly recognize the subject: the 9/11 attacks, their generation's where-were-you definitional moment. But in this case, the moment was intimately personal: These were teenagers who watched 9/11 not on television but out their schoolhouse window.
The storied Stuyvesant High (its alumni include Jimmy Cagney, Thelonious Monk and four Nobel winners) is a magnet school just three blocks from the old site of the World Trade Center. Because the school stayed intact during the September 11 attacks and no one there was hurt, Stuy, as it's known to its students and teachers, has largely been overlooked in journalistic accounts of that day.
Now the Stuy kids have what amounts to a video yearbook. In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11 is told entirely in their words. And though they're now doctors, lawyers, investment bankers and marketing executives, their words still echo with the sense of awful wonder they felt as their childhood ended that day.
One of them remembers hearing a metal-rending screech from outside and thinking a truck had backed over some garbage cans. When it became apparent that something much worse had happened, classroom TV sets went all over the school, and a number of kids had the blood-chilling novel experience of seeing a second plane hit the south tower, followed moments later by an instant replay on television.
Another student was puzzled by blurry video of what seemed to be bits of debris dropping from the towers as they burned. "What is that?" he asked others. "What's falling?"
As the cameras sharpened their focus, the outlines of human beings plummeting from the upper floors popped into clear view. And suddenly it occurred to the student that the answer to his question might be "my uncle," who worked on the 86th floor of one of the towers. He does not even try to describe his agonized shriek.
(Don't sit around waiting for a surprise happy ending; 9/11 wasn't that kind of day. The uncle's family never saw him again.)
As the towers continued to burn and, eventually, collapse, Stuy administrators closed the school and sent the students home. With buses and subways shut down, for most of the kids it was an 8-to-10 mile trudge suffused with ash and dust and abject ignorance—in 2001, cell phones were still rare among teenagers, and they had little idea what had happened.
When one boy allowed a group of his classmates to take turns calling their families from his clunky Nextel mobile phone, the conversations were not reassuring. "Please, please, just survive," sobbed one father. The students quickly learned that rogue airliners weren't the only threat. Several of them remember a man on the sidewalk pointing at a Stuy girl wearing a hijab and bellowing: "Bitch!"
It's at this point that Shadow of the Towers goes off the rails, turning from a credible, if not necessarily remarkable, reminiscence about a brutally painful day to simplistic immigration agitprop. I've no doubt the know-nothing bully on the sidewalk existed and their encounter with him, under those circumstances, was terrifying.
But it seems unlikely that the only political lesson any of the Stuy kids drew from 9/11 is that it resulted in racist immigration restrictions. Surely producer-director Amy Schatz talked to at least one former student who said something about the nature of jihad or fallout from U.S. foreign policy, or cursed out Osama bin Laden.
Yet not a single word of that made its way into her film, just as not a single word of doubt about the merits of gun control could be heard in her last one, Song Of Parkland, a documentary about survivors of a Florida school shooting. What does come through, loud and clear, is the sound of Schatz fluffing up the progressive corsage on her sleeve.
Glenn Garvin is a contributing editor at Reason. A former Miami Herald foreign correspondent, columnist, and TV critic, he is the author of Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras and (with Ana Rodriguez) Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison.
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Wait — somebody made a movie about 9 / 11 with the ultimate goal of promoting the Koch / Reason open borders agenda? That’s awesome!
Well, when your narrative includes the innocent wisdom of children, there’s necessarily going to be a lot left out. Sure, talking to people who were there on that day gives an interesting perspective on the story, but let’s not pretend that being there imbues the narrator with some special insight on the meaning of it all. It’s a case of special pleading based on an emotional appeal – just the same as David Hogg claiming some unassailable cred on the matter of gun control. I ran over a cat with my car once, doesn’t mean the cat’s qualified to head the NHTSA now.
That must be some painfully obvious selective editing.
A Sikh was killed outside my home town on 9/12. Because he wore a turban.
He would have been much safer in India. Damn rednecks. Why does anyone want to come here at all?
Sounds like horseshit to me. Did you make that up, because Google has nothing.
Weren’t several of the hijackers here because immigration enforcement was too lax back then? Seems like they’re drawing the wrong lesson.
I have not watched and no reason to.
That day I think those of us who can remember where we were and when in hit have our own memory.
One story, we were at a resort and you know how you meet people you will never see again. Met a couple we all got to talking. The guy looked familiar. We had some beers or something.
My wife and his were talking, women do talk. She tells me later that he was a fire fighter first on the scene. He had since gone to another job in a more sedate location and we were not to bring it up. I had seen him in a news photo or something and his wife had told her that had happened. Never brought it up.
You know they talk about the thousand yard stare. I remember that about him. Like there was that place inside. Everybody got a story.
Did the documentary include Donald Trump reminiscing about watching the huge celebrations among Muslimy-looking people in Jersey?
Enjoy your continuing march toward irrelevance in the culture war, Mr. Garvin, which will end when you are replaced by one of your betters (from the liberal-libertarian mainstream).
“Did the documentary include Donald Trump reminiscing about watching the huge celebrations among Muslimy-looking people in Jersey?”
It would take a scumbag asshole bigot to ask something like that, and here you are!
“Enjoy your continuing march toward irrelevance in the culture war, Mr. Garvin, which will end when you are replaced by one of your betters (from the liberal-libertarian mainstream).”
You lost, you loser. Fuck off and die where we can’t smell you.
Was 9/11 about trump too? What isn’t?
#neverforget #forgetonpurposeimmediatelyandmakeupyourownrevisionistcrap #orangemanverybadindeed
“resulted in racist immigration restrictions.”
No one should equate illegal border crossings with immigration – although that may be included / involved.
People cross the border for many more reasons than immigration – like if you wear a foreign military uniform and are armed.
But reading @Reason would lead you to believe that those people are to be considered immigrants too.
This is convenient for open border supporters where all illegal border crossings are to be considered as simply “innocent” illegal immigration.
The students quickly learned that rogue airliners weren’t the only threat. Several of them remember a man on the sidewalk pointing at a Stuy girl wearing a hijab and bellowing: “Bitch!”
..and then everyone on the train clapped. Stupid racists.
Why is it that the same people who have absolutely no problem declaring that ‘we’ deserved what happened on 9/11 because of what the US had done to Muslims, the same people who routinely proclaim that ALL white people should be held accountable for the sins of slaveowners–ALL slaveowners, from the black people who invented slavery, all the way up to the black people who still practice it, the same people who declare how this group owes that group endlessly is the same group of people who insist that no one else can assign blame in this fashion.
No one ‘pointed at a Stuy girl in a hijab’ and said ‘bitch’ on 9/11 while it was going on–BECAUSE NO ONE KNEW YET. Especially not those AT the WTC.
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Lisa Reina and her son Joseph; John Vigiano; Kellie Lee and her daughter Allison. Chad Rachman; Stefano Giovannini; Roger Kisby
You’re officially an adult, maybe leaving home for the first time, for college or work. You can finally vote, buy a lotto ticket and serve in the military.
It’s a time of mixed emotions, made even more so if you’ve never really met the man who helped bring you into the world: the father you lost the day the towers fell.
For the widows of 9/11, some of whom were profiled by The Post on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, some had no choice but to put their grief aside in order to raise their families. As for the babies they were expecting and the newborns they cradled in their arms: Now turning 18, they’ve grown up dreaming of a parent they’ve only heard about.
“I believe he’s up there, helping me with my success,” says Allison Lee, born two days after her father, Dan, was killed in the terrorist attacks. Next month, she’ll move to Los Angeles, where her father grew up, to begin a dance program.
Allison says she can picture him giving her a thumbs-up, just as he’d done in the photos she’s seen. “I know he’d be telling me, ‘You’ve got this. Don’t give up on your dream.’”
Here’s where several 9/11 families are now.
NYPD detective Joseph Vigiano had just three months with his infant son, John, before he ran into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, trying to rescue the people trapped inside. Their father-son time was short, but precious.
“I have a picture I took of John sleeping on Joe [on] the couch,” says his wife, Kathy, who met Joseph when they were police officers stationed in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct and is now retired from the force. “I guess that’s the best bonding you could do with an infant.”
With his older boys, Joseph Jr. and Jimmy, Joseph was a hands-on dad, says Kathy, now 54 and living on Long Island. He made his sons mini NYPD uniforms, cutting up one of his leather belts to fashion holsters that held flashlights and other tools.
“He was supposed to become their Boy Scout leader, but he died before the first meeting,” she says.
Kathy was at a school bus stop on Long Island with her three sons when a FedEx driver told her about the attacks. At first, she was glad to know her husband had responded. “He loved his job and he loved helping people,” she says. Days later, when she was called into police headquarters, she learned that his body was found in the rubble of Ground Zero. His brother, firefighter John Vigiano, was also killed.
Although Kathy’s youngest child grew up without knowing his father, he says he’s felt his presence all his life. “He’s looking out over me,” John, now 18, says. When he learned his dad started a lacrosse league with the NYPD, he took up the sport, playing it throughout his time at St. Anthony’s High School. Now, a Marine Transportation major at SUNY Maritime in the Bronx, John says he’s doing everything he can to make his dad proud.
That includes his aspirations for service: His late uncle, grandfather and great-grandfather were all FDNY firefighters. When John finishes at SUNY Maritime, he intends on applying to both the NYPD and the FDNY.
“[My dad] pursued the things that he was passionate about, and earned the respect of the people around him while doing it,” John says. “He would be proud of me looking to better myself.”
Early in September 2001, Dan Lee was preparing for one last business trip before his daughter’s birth. He and his wife, Kellie, had even picked out a name: Allison.
“I remember him talking to her through my belly before he left,” says Kellie, now 50.
In Boston on Sept. 11, Dan boarded American Airlines Flight 11 for the trip home to Los Angeles. It never arrived — diverted by terrorists into the north tower of the World Trade Center, killing all those aboard and, after a second plane hit the south tower, some 2,600 others in the towers and on the ground.
Allison was born on Sept. 13. In the couple of days that followed, the hospital placed Kellie on suicide watch.
“I just felt hollow,” says Kellie, who also had a 2-year-old daughter, Amanda, at home. “But I had babies to take care of.”
With time, the family began to heal. They moved to Las Vegas, where Kellie remarried, and her second husband, Chris, came to be like a father to the girls. Every Sept. 11, the family visits Dan’s favorite restaurant, Islands, which has an outpost in Vegas. And while her sister has vague memories of their father, it was different for Allison. “All you get are stories,” Allison says.
Still, she’s found a way to feel close to her dad, who was a drummer: She’s been dancing since she was 8.
“She got his long legs and his rhythm,” her mom says.
Allison, who’ll move to Los Angeles next month to study at the Millennium Dance Complex, says that dancing helps her deal with the loss that’s shaped her life.
“Anything I’m feeling, I can express through dance,” she says. In 2016, she and her dance troupe performed a tribute to Sept. 11, with her family’s story woven throughout the interpretation. It was an emotional experience, she says.
“Once we danced through it, I realized a whole part of me is missing,” she says. “It helped me process it.”
Most days, though, the strongest feeling she has when she thinks about Sept. 11 is one of gratitude, for her mom.
“I think about how strong she was to go through that and still do all these things for us,” Allison says. “She’s the most positive person I know.”
There are signs that Joseph Reina is deeply connected to his late father, Joe.
Joe was an operations manager for Cantor Fitzgerald, working on the 101st floor of the north tower when the planes hit. His wife, Lisa, was almost 8 months pregnant. She gave birth to Joseph in a haze on Oct. 4, still dreaming, she says, that her husband would find his way home.
In the months and years to come, she believes that she and her child sensed Joe’s presence.
“When Joseph was a baby, he would look up at the ceiling and just smile,” says Lisa, now 49 and a retail worker from Staten Island. “I would always say, ‘Do you see Daddy?’ ”
Lisa still sees her son look up and smile, although she’s yet to tell him what happened to his father: Joseph, who’s on the autism spectrum and has difficulty communicating, wouldn’t be capable of comprehending the tragedy, Lisa says.
But she sometimes feels she doesn’t need to tell him. “He just has a feeling,” she says.
She saw the strong physical resemblance between Joseph and his father — “the kind of guy who could light up a room” — as early as her baby’s first Christmas, when she took his picture and saw his daddy’s funny smile. Back then, Lisa didn’t know how she was going to raise him alone.
“I wanted to crawl up in a ball and cry, but I couldn’t because I was thrown into that mother-father role automatically,” she says.
It was especially hard when Joseph, then 2, was found to have special needs. “Losing your husband is hard enough,” she thought. “How much more can I take?”
Lisa remarried in 2004 and had a daughter, now 15. Her new husband treated Joseph the same as he did his own child, and while the couple has since separated, her ex and her son are still close. She’s grateful that Joseph has a father figure in his life.
Joseph, who’ll soon enter a program for job training and daily living skills, is “the happiest kid you ever wanna meet,” Lisa says. He still hugs his mother, a gift she doesn’t take for granted.
Although he doesn’t know it, she says, it was Joseph who’s kept her going all these years.
“If he wasn’t here and I didn’t have him to have to take care of,” Lisa says. “I don’t know how I would have gotten through it.”
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Members of Congress observe Moment of Silence for 9/11 and sing God Bless America
Members of Congress observe Moment of Silence for 9/11 and sing God Bless America
Members of Congress observe Moment of Silence for 9/11 and sing God Bless America.
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