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Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?

Long Shadow

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A Flight Has Crashed

In some ways, our response to 9-11 was doomed from the start. The day began with a collective failure of imagination from both the American public and those in power in Washington. Back when mass public terror was a rare and new phenomenon, America wasn't used to being afraid on a day-to-day basis.

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