Adam Mayblum's Essay: The Price We Pay

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Taking a walk in Adam Mayblum shoes: this is what it feels like when you read the essay, The Price We Pay. After the first plane hit on 9/11, the most shocking event was that Mayblum and his associates remained calm. They thought it was a bomb. "We did not panic. I can only assume that we thought that the worst was over. The building was standing and we were shaken but alive" (165). They started their way down on the eighty-seventh floor and made it until the thirty-third floor before they all knew what really happened. Later realizing that because they were calm and pulled together as a team, democracy won. "Today the images the people around the world equate with power and democracy are gone, but "America" is not an image, it is a concept.