Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers

Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers

Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers

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Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers

2005

1h 5m

8.0(1 votes)

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Answering the Call depicts the surreal sites and sounds of the now sacred ground that was once the World Trade Center complex - a site now known throughout the world as Ground Zero.

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