As rescue workers pick through the rubble of the World Trade Center, the senior officers of many of the world's top financial, securities, and insurance firms are beginning to pick up the pieces of their businesses. In addition to the loss of experienced employees, physical capital, and vital information and records, the surviving leadership and employees of many companies cite an emotional loss that will perhaps be the most difficult to deal with. While the process of rebuilding will be far from easy, a common sentiment among the denizens of Manhattan's business world is that the affected industries will persevere and that business must, and will, go on.
See "Wall Street Confronts Tragedy's Enormous Human Cost", PATRICK McGEEHAN, International Herald Tribune, September 13, 2001