Twenty-five years later, the images haven’t faded.
Charlie LeDuff remembers September 11, 2001 — the smoke, the rubble, the workers, the dead, and the ordinary people who walked straight into hell to help strangers.
LeDuff was a reporter for The New York Times and spent the months after the attacks reporting from Ground Zero, alongside the men and women digging through what remained of the World Trade Center.
This isn’t a history lesson.
It’s a memory.
Never forget the people who died.
And never forget the people who showed up.
