The Times has published all 503 interviews with firefighters, EMTs and paramedics conducted after 9/11. Compelling reading. It takes a special kind of person to see a tower burning and run towards it looking to save people.
And yet the professionals weren't the only people who behaved in an extraordinary way. Most people when faced with extraordinary circumstances will rise to the occasion. Perhaps our problem as a society is we are so rarely faced with extraordinary circumstances, except in canned situations like sports and weddings.
I guess that's what we rely on movies and tv for: to give us examples of how people behave in extraordinary circumstances, to help us rehearse them in our minds, whether they're negative examples or positive ones...
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