Tobin Perry & Jon Walker

Mary's ministry Mary Carr, right, director of Graffiti Community Ministries' after-school program in Manhattan, comforts Lower East Side kids who witnessed the attacks in their backyard. Photo by Gibbs Frazeur

      NEW YORK (BP)--The helicopters were a constant presence. Their rhythmic whok-ka-ka-ka-whok-ka-ka-ka provided the soundtrack to another night of confusion and crisis as soldiers lined the streets and mobile mounted machine guns defended consecutive corners.
      Every few minutes, the whoosh of jet fighters would drown out the helicopters' refrain. The fighters were there to make sure the unthinkable didn't happen a second time. They flew quickly through the smoke-filled sky with a bird's-eye view of the fires still smoldering below.