Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Oct. 1, 2001
They started hauling the bodies out about 36 hours after the attack. A day and a half to let the fires burn, to sift through the rubble and ash that was once the citadel of American capitalism and was now the first battlefield of a new century’s first war, just to begin the dreadful accounting, to begin clearing the dead off that battlefield. During those same 36 hours, the reaction nationwide to the most lethal attack ever directed at U.S. soil slowly began to turn, from speechless, stunned terror toward anger, toward thoughts of revenge, toward a call to war.
As Fortune readers receive this issue, that mood may well have begun to change again. For now the fresh graves are being prepared. Now the funerals have started. Now thousands and thousands of families are gathering to mourn unimaginable loss, and the images wash over us, again and again. Twenty-three thousand were killed or wounded at the batt
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