The city's heroes now are very working class: firemen, policemen, construction workers.
Not only are American forces being attacked, but so are Afghan policemen, aid workers and midlevel officials.
Parkchester was "a lily-white community," Mr. Dearie said, a haven for firemen, policemen, Con Edison workers and employees of the telephone company.
It is a moving memorial to the thousands who died on that day and a tribute to the firemen, policemen, construction workers and volunteers who were involved in the "clean-up".
The general who warned Congress that stabilising the country would require several hundred thousand troops was sacked for his prescience.Mr Rumsfeld's one big idea seemed to be that it was not the job of the armed forces he was "transforming" to become policemen, social workers or nation- builders.
"We owe a huge debt to our firemen, policemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses and others who have done so much for our country, our city and for all of us," Henry M. Paulson Jr., the chief executive of the Goldman Sachs Group, which is donating at least $10 million, said in a memorandum to employees.
Among those individuals are teachers, medical doctors, juridical professionals, policemen, social workers and psychologists.
As the unknown questioner — policeman, social worker, filmmaker?
The policemen say both workers and their supervisors will be accommodated in containers.
The panic was upstairs, the subway workers, policemen, people were running around.
