The events of 911 was almost too much for the mind to comprehend - even now I find it so hard to believe that this actually happened.

Read moreġ02 Minutes from the time the first plane struck the first tower and the second tower collapsed. An act of evil on a terrible day overcome with heroism and love, that is what I take away from 9/11. Countless first responders who stayed with people they were helping to evacuate even when the news finally came that the towers were in danger of falling. Once there he gave comfort to survivors and directed them to escape routes. Orio Palmer, a firefighter who arrived at the South Tower, fixed an elevator to take him to the 41st floor sky lobby and from there ran up 37 flights of stairs to go into the impact zone. Abe Zelmanowitz wouldn't leave his paraplegic friend Ed Beyea even though he could have evacuated and saved his own life. He could have left the tower with his wife but he kept going up to the impact zone in order to save whoever he could. Frank DiMartini and his group were directly responsible for saving 70 people before ultimately losing his life. What I take away from this book was no matter how evil the terrorists were and how destructive their act, it was overcome with pure goodness in thousands of ways and by thousands of people. As I read it felt like I was traveling through the towers as I spent the last moments of people lives with them. It fact it was so emotionally draining that I had to put it down at times to take a breath and remind myself that I was not trapped in a smokey tower, almost two thousand feet off the ground with no means of escape. I read this in commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11.

102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer