The 9/11 Toll
The numbers.

By NR Editors
From “The Week,” December 17, 2001, issue, of National Review

ew York City officials have been revising their estimates of how many thousands died in and around the World Trade Center on September 11; counting has been slow because the murderers left few bodies. The total death toll, including those killed at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, now looks as though it could reach 3,245. To put that in perspective: It is more than all the deaths at Pearl Harbor; more than all the deaths at Saratoga, or the Battle of New Orleans; more than all who perished in the New York draft riots, or the Chicago Fire, or the San Francisco earthquake, or on the Titanic. Because of the courage of the rescue workers, the gallantry of the passengers of Flight 93, and the strength of the Promethean trade towers, the toll was not higher. Because of our just anger, the toll of our enemies will be much higher.