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9/11/01: Residents pull together in aftermath

Julie McDermott, center, walks with other victims as

Photo credit: AP | Julie McDermott, center, walks with other victims as they make their way through debris near the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. Earlier in the day terrorists crashed two airliners into the buildings, bringing down the twin 110-story towers.

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The burning World Trade Center is seen from 9/11/2001

The pain of those many who were buried in rubble, or suffocated by smoke, or who jumped from 80 stories high, was felt by grieving New Yorkers from the foot of Manhattan to Flushing yesterday.

Angelina Payne was driving to visit her mother dying of cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital, when on the Long Island City side of the Queensboro Bridge she saw the second plane slam into the World Trade Center...

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