Powerful and haunting.  This book will break your heart.  It’s a time capsule of all the emotion felt as the tragedy of 9/11 progressed.  It’s both hard to listen to and hard to turn off.  

Using thousands of firsthand accounts of the events of 9/11, this book adeptly depicts the most heart wrenching and fear inducing time in the history of the United States.  Graff masterfully captures the emotion deeply felt throughout our nation, preserving the memories of that day into a comprehensive oral history.   

As the book unfolded, I was taken back in time…being told…watching the towers fall…the Pentagon…Shanksville…worrying what was next…not being able to turn off the TV.  I felt the anguish and terror wash over me anew.  

Listening to these voices tell their first hand experiences of the tragedy broke my heart afresh in a million different ways with an untold amount of tears.  

If any book should be considered required reading, this one would be at the top of my list.  This book well honors the heroes and victims of that day.  May we truly never forget.