Twelve Years Ago

Recovery workers are lowered into the still smoking ruins of the World Trade Center at Ground Zero. For an idea of how big the crater was, consider that the men in the bucket are about 6 feet tell. 

A lot has been written about the terrorists attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. All more eloquent than anything I can say.

I went to New York on the first day commercial flights resumed. These are the photos I made in Manhattan in the days following. 

Aftermath of September 11 Terror Attacks - Images by Jack Kurtz

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