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FROM THE FRONTLINES :: STEVE COHN
September 11th Remembered
 In recognition of the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, we reprint min's fifth-anniversary remembrance from the September 11, 2006, issue. The impact on the magazine community, and how it responded, will forever be indelible.Like December 7, 1941, this date five years ago that brought the greatest terrorist attacks in U.S. history lives in infamy.   Among the nearly 3,000 killed, we remember Good Housekeeping sales representative Lauren Grandcolas, who was aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco that crashed in Shanksville, Pa., after passengers--maybe including her--overpowered the terrorists. And we remember National Geographic Society staffers Ann Judge and Joseph Ferguson, who were escorting schoolchildren on a science trip to California aboard the hijacked AA Flight 11 that struck the Pentagon.We also remember the poignancy of editors' notes/letters to readers that we excerpted. Nancy Novogrod writing so correctly in Travel + Leisure that travel is part of our genetic code--and altogether irrepressible in our souls. Lucy Danziger in her Self debut including her mother's 1989 portrait of the World Trade Center's twin towers and the spires of nearby Trinity Church. Ruth Reichl and her Gourmet staff volunteering at Ground Zero by doing what they did best: cook. Barbara Fairchild calling the hundreds of firefighters who died in the WTC rescue an "inspiration." Most personal to her was Bon Appétit reader Thomas Carey (he collected 15 years of issues), with his widow receiving the magazine ever since as "our gift to you in perpetuity." And David Zinczenko writing in Men's Health of his jogging past the WTC about an hour before the attacks and wondering whether the police officer that he encountered was safe. Happily, Gary Randazzo was fine (he and Zinczenko shared a warm reunion), but sadly, two colleagues in his precinct were among the 23 officers who lost their lives. Finally, we remember the indelible magazine covers. The most horrific were in min on September 17 and 24, 2001. Above, we show two of the most moving: (1) The New Yorker artist Owen Smith's September 11, 2006, Soaring Spirit rendition of 1974 twin-towers tightrope walker Phillippe Petit in "emptiness" (secondary cover shows Petit over Ground Zero with prints of the towers' foundations); and (2) The Economist's first-anniversary cover (September 7, 2002) with the word that will resonate forever. More Steve Cohn
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