The Morning They Sang in the Rubble
On September 13, 2001, two days after the towers fell, rescue workers at Ground Zero paused their digging. Someone — no one remembers who —...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 98:1-4.
On September 13, 2001, two days after the towers fell, rescue workers at Ground Zero paused their digging. Someone — no one remembers who — began humming "Amazing Grace." Within seconds, firefighters caked in ash, ironworkers with bleeding hands, and paramedics who hadn't slept in forty hours joined in. The singing spread across that smoldering pit like water finding cracks in stone.…
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