Local & Regional · North America

A reporter followed Chicago first responders to New York after 9/11. He saw devastation — and heroism.

Everybody has a 9/11 story. Mine begins three days earlier, in an apple orchard outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y. One of my best friends from college was getting married. He lived in New York City, and some of his buddies at the wedding worked at the World Trade Center. It was a glorious weekend of bluegrass music and Cal