The Quotable Giuliani
Chapter 1: The Morning of September 11
Giuliani was having breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11 when his aide Dennison Young, Jr., received the phone call that the World Trade Center had been attacked. Giuliani remembers:
* My first thought is sort of a rejection: How could this happen? Airplanes don't hit the World Trade Center. What are we talking about?
* How could anyone do this to my city?
Shortly after arriving at the disaster site, the mayor recounts the tragedy he witnessed.
* I get the first real view of the building and see that, no matter how it was described, it's much worse. The top of the building is totally in flames. I look up, and for some reason my eye catches the top of the World Trade Center, and I see a man jump -- it must have been at least one hundred stories up....When I look around, what I see is something close to a nuclear bomb. I see dark smoke.
On arriving at the World Trade Center collapse:
* Just pray to God that we can save a few people.
Recounting his route to saf ... read full excerpt from The Quotable Giuliani: The Mayor of America in His Own Words ebook
