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It was less than 24 hours after the World Trade Center towers fell and a lone car barrelled across an eerily empty George Washington Bridge heading towards Manhattan. To the right, a large plume of smoke and dust filled the horizon, obstructing the view and covering the city in a blanket of despair too heavy to lift.
The men in the car, all members of an elite New York State Police tactical unit called the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), clenched their jaws and stared at the scene with grim determination.