Student essay on 9/11 photography, Oct 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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This page and back: Union Square, September 16, 2001

To Our Readers: to a pair of falling giants.-We Maybe it's strange or terrible printed beautiful color photos of that the most professional-looking neartbreakingly ugly, twisted edition of The Spectator is dedicat­ things to ensure that, as Ethan ed to one of the worst days in his­ says, "no one ever forgets." We tory. Covering these stories was wanted to give everyone a view of different from anything we'd ever Lower Manhattan that they might done, and we did it under circum­ not get from the news or from stances vastly different from any front pages on newsstands. We we'd ever faced. There had been want you to hear the voice of difficult issues in the past. But we youth in our own voice and could always go back to our office, images. we could always complain in Spec Putting together the special ' class, we could always fall back on edition of the paper also brought something. On September ii, we us together—as friends, as a team. couldn't go back to our office and We are no longer the same people sit down to put together the news­ as we were before. On September paper. We stuck together anyway. 11, we and America lost our sense We didn't produce this issue to of innocence and of invincibility. be sensational or to wallow in But we also gained a sense of unity what a mess our city has been that will last far longer than it will plunged into. We wrote because of take to clean up and rebuild Lower who we are —students who hap­ Manhattan. pened to be sitting extremely close — The Editors of The Spectator

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