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Fifty people never came home to Middletown, NJ after Sept 11th. Wall Avenue fathers, young Dock Authority police, sole working moms, the beloved instructor of the championship girls traveling field hockey team. Three small children in one cathedral pre-school lost their daddies. Dozens of widows, young and beautiful women in their 20s and 30s, some still nursing newborns, watched their dreams basically go up in smoke in that amphitheater of fatality across the river. Gail Sheehy journeyed to Middletown shortly after the disaster and started out in-depth interviews with lots of the bereaved. Middletown, America was written as the entire year progressed, following parallel and intertwining experiences of decided on individuals and their own families. A mother who was doubly bereft when she lost her only son as he attempted to fill up the shoes of her absentee hubby; the only real survivor in an office of 67 people who escaped the 88th floor of Tower 2 secs prior to the floor was decimated. Listed below are the fire-fighters, save workers and front-line open public health volunteers, now training to be soldiers in this new warfare. Of equal importance, however, is just how these very real individuals handled this disaster and the trauma that used. Middletown, America is also a tale of recovery and of the ways people finally figure out how to deal with seemingly insurmountable grief and an incomprehensible physical and financial disaster.
