In September, after being closed for four days - the longest shut down since the 1930s - Wall Street's opening bell was sounded by New York's new heroes.. members of the police and fire brigade.
The heart of New York's financial district had been devastated the previous Tuesday, but since then teams had been working around the clock to ready the stock exchange for trading.
The event to mark the reopening was attended by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, who paid tribute to the city workers who had had to put aside their fears and sorrow, amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center towers, and return to work.
PM's Ian Pannell was in New York, to meet people who, whilst clearly affected by the trauma of the previous week's events, nevertheless showed a grim determination to defy the terrorists and respond to the president's call to keep the economy moving.
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