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After a certain point you start finding amusement where you can. A video clip of the first tower collapsing on which a voice can be clearly heard shouting, "HOLY SHIT!!!" despite an announcer's voice-over. A local newscaster reading the 23rd Psalm as "Yeah, though I walk through..." Yeah. Groovy. Wondering when Dan Rather is finally going to finally have a meltdown and go totally Howard Beale on the air, and noticing that the whistle in his teeth grows more pronounced with every passing hour.

Then you see a line of exhausted firefighters trudging through the grey sludge that used to be buildings so tall that, even when you stood in front of them and looked directly at them, you couldn't begin to imagine how tall they were, and it's horrible again.