Harrop: Rudy Giuliani had a finest hour - The Columbian
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Rudolph Giuliani was always somewhat off-center, even in his glory days as New York City mayor. But people who recall him then were stunned by his decline into a conspiracy-mongering swamp creature of Trump world. The 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 lets us remember that on that day of horror, Giuliani was on the chaotic scene, passing out courage and hope.
At 10 a.m. on 9/11, I was in New York on a train being kept underground in Penn Station. The two planes had just hit the World Trade Center.
The conductor came on the loudspeaker telling us repeatedly that “this is the safest place you can be right now.” We didn’t all have cellphones then, but a guy in the back of the car did and informed us that the Pentagon had been hit and the first tower, and then the second, had come down. The conductor asked us to pray for the people in the World Trade Center.
We were scared and shuddered imagining the terror downtown. We didn’t know at that point who did it, why or whether they had stopped. We wanted to get out of town, but the train wasn’t going anywhere because the tunnels were being searched for bombs.
The conductor came on one last time and told us to stay calm, take our bags and leave the train. We ascended into the light and a transformed city, country and world.
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