"In the Shadow of the Towers" The 9/11 attacks have been exhaustively documented over the past two decades, but one crucial aspect has gone largely unreported: the story of the children and teachers trapped at the World Trade Center's Children's Discovery Center on that fateful morning.
As I watched a documentary produced by Retro Report, which tracked down surviving witnesses, I was struck by the resilience and resourcefulness displayed by Tara Jones, Onica Sarjeant, and their colleagues.
These ordinary heroes found themselves in an extraordinary nightmare, forced to improvise a response to the chaos unfolding before them.