On the gorgeous, late-summer morning of September 11, 2001, a nation was plunged into despair and fear when terrorists struck America s grandest symbols of economic and military mightthe World Trade Center and the Pentagonand killed nearly 3,000 people. Thrown together by fate under horrific circumstances, the victims families rose from the rubble of their decimated lives, rebuilt, and banded together to become an irresistible political force unprecedented in American history. Bob Kemper, an award-winning reporter for more than twenty-five years, first met the families of 9/11 shortly after...