Then comes the second crash below their feet, shaking the building and shattering glass.Īgain, John Fuller stays calm, figuring out what floor the plane hit, and the safest route down. John Fuller orders an evacuation of the floor, and calmly performs his role as fire warden. They're in his dad's office when the first ' thunderous explosion' happens. He takes him to the Observation Deck and then down to the office level, where Will meets his father's employees. On the way in to work, John Fuller explains the design and construction of the towers to Will, as well as its complex system of local and express elevators. Then comes their fateful career shadowing day on September the 11th. James' fireman father has time to play hoops with his son and Will, and even plays guitar with them when they practice for their wannabe band.

In their grade nine history class, Will Fuller and his best friend James Bennett (whose father is a NY fireman) learn the origins of the old rhyme that starts, ' Ring around the rosie'. In We All Fall Down, Eric Walters sensitively tells a story of a young man estranged from a father kept so busy by his high finance career that he's ' more a rumor at our house than a confirmed fact.' Together, for a school career shadowing day, in his father's offices on the eighty-fifth floor of the World Trade Center south building, they share a terrifying and demanding experience that builds understanding and mutual respect, and strengthens the fraying bonds between them.

We All Fall Down by Eric Walters