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Title: Facts, yes, but lacking meaning
Review: There are lots of cold, hard facts in this book, which is great for those interested in statistics. For people who want a view of the day beyond the numbers, dates and times, to really understand the terror, hopelessness & agony of the day, this book will disappoint. The horror of September 11th was not the destruction of walls of the Pentagon or the tumbling of buildings, it was the agony of loss, the simultanenous, murder thousands. It's the thoughts that imagination creates and the pressing, persistent questions that peek out of forcibly supressed memories. The horror is the public murder and the agony is the private, unknown details. This book misses those things. The author recounts "things" well in the method of a reporter taking notes, but misses the importance of Sept. 11th, which is maintaining its meaning.
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