May 9, 2003
The Banner That Binds Us
Embudo, New Mexico. Photograph by Peter Elliott
On September 12, 2001, I was standing on the corner of 78th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan, just a few yards from where I live, when a firetruck passed. Now this is a pretty ordinary occurrence -- my neighborhood firehouse is just seven blocks north, on 85th Street, so the firetrucks pass
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