From www.WashigntonPost.com:
By J. Freedom du Lac
When the World Trade Center’s South Tower collapsed, just before 10 a.m. on September 11, 2001, photographer Stan Honda was in lower Manhattan, taking pictures of the incomprehensible scene.
He ducked into a building lobby, where “a police officer was pulling people into the entrance to get them out of the danger.”
“A woman came in completely covered in gray dust,” Honda recalled in 2011. “You could tell she was nicely dressed for work and for a second she stood in the lobby. I took one shot of her before the police officer started to direct people up a set of stairs, thinking it would be safer off the ground level.”
The woman turned out to be Marcy Borders, who had only recently begun working for Bank of America in the World Trade Center when the first plane struck.
She was 28 at the time, and Honda’s haunting photo of her—distributed worldwide by Agence France-Presse—became one of the most iconic images of that horrifying day.
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