11 Quotes by Garrett M. Graff

We met when we were only 16, at a high school dance. When he died, we were 50. I remember how I didn't want that day to end, terrible as it was. I didn't want to go to sleep because as long as I was awake, it was still a day that I shared with Sean. ~Beverly Eckert

We took the time to shake each other’s hands and wish each other good luck and “Hope I’ll see you later,” which is especially poignant for me because we all had that acknowledgment that this might be our last day on earth and we went to work anyway.

I think he wouldn’t have had it any other way. It was as if he took the lead – all those angels, right through heaven’s gates. That’s what it seemed like to us. If any of those guys were confused on the way up, he was there to ease the transition from this life to the next.

Jean Potter, Bank of America, North Tower, 81st floor: “I would leave the house everyday and say to him the last line of this movie, The Story of Christ, “just remember, Jesus said ‘I am always with you’. That’s how I would leave him in the morning as I would go to work.

Kennedy, who had campaigned strongly on the “Missile Gap” issue, soon discovered as president that the Soviet Union didn’t have the 500 missiles feared – it didn’t even have one percent of that total. It had exactly four intercontinental missiles. For.

The security offered inside a bank safe even became fodder for a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which mild-mannered, bookish bank clerk Henry Bemis, who locked himself inside the bank’s safe each day to read during his lunch break, emerged from the vault one day to find the world devastated by nuclear bombs. IV.

I wrote, “Rescue 2, John Napolitano, I’m here and I love you. Dad.

ID issue would bedevil countless FEMA officials in the days ahead – the agency’s barebones IDs, which lacked many standard government markings like an authorizing signature or specific statute citations, were repeatedly barred by skeptical security personnel. Once.

On March 1, 1982, Reagan observed the IVY LEAGUE military exercise – the largest military command post exercise that the United States had run since 1956. It was the first time since Eisenhower that a commander-in-chief personally participated in such an exercise. Like Ike, Reagan wasn’t allowed to speak. As an official explained, “No president should ever disclose his hand, even in a war game.