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RAIN 9/14: Update- sad paper trail



New York Times 9/14/01
Trade Center's past in a sad paper trail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/nyregion/14PAPE.html

by Jane Fritsch and David Rohde
A crumpled page of cleaning instructions with a reminder to damp-wipe
smudges and smears. A blank check from a financial firm on the 101st floor.
A tattered résumé, shreds of a faxed message, a cell-phone bill, a note
about school, a bank statement, an expense report. A request for a promotion
dated 1979.
Personal and official, all shapes and sizes, bits of paper blanket Lower
Manhattan with the mundane poetry of office life. They drifted from the sky
on Tuesday and fell to earth miles away in Brooklyn, sheets and scraps that
document the 28-year life and abrupt death of the World Trade Center.
A torrent of paper blew through the windows of a second-floor apartment on
Liberty Street across from the south tower. Three-inch mounds jammed the
bars of a window. Some blew into New York Harbor. Some floated past the
windows of an elementary school, as bewildered children asked why.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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