One thing for sure I definetly was a year away from joining Rewind on that terrible day in September. I was at school at the time, was studying the night before and was sleeping at my then girlfriend's place that morning when she called and I turned on the TV in disbelief. I guess for a lot of us, those images will stay forever, maybe akin to 60's kids when to recall the deaths of JFK, MLK and RFK.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I was working graveyard shift at the time and was at home just getting ready to go to bed. Decided to check my email one last time and one of my email friends wrote and told everybody to turn their TV's on as Tower one had just got hit by a plane and was on fire. This was before anybody associated with the media really knew what was going on. I turned on my set just in time to see tower two get hit. Needless to say I didn't go to sleep for another six hours or so.
Posted by NowhereGirl (Member # 465) on :
i was at home getting ready for work when my b/f (who was supposed to be catching a flight to austin) called to say he wasn't going anywhere. and told me that terrorists hi-jacked a plane and no flights were going up in the air. it didn't make any sense to me, what he said. so i turned on the news and there it was.... images of the second plane hitting the building.. more like slicing through the building. and i sat there and didn't move for a while. somehow, i managed to get dressed and show up for work. i got in the elevator and it was just me and another guy in there. we were silent the whole ride up to the 9th floor. and before he got out, he said to me "interesting day." i was working at the governor's building during this time. so you can imagine the media and security that surrounded me. i literally sat in on a press conference with the head of the state and tons of reporters...while watching the aftermath unfold and people running for their lives on live television... through black smoke.
it was the most intense thing i've experienced.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Like Sam I had worked the graveyard shift the night before. I was fixing to turn the tv off and go to bed when The Today Show started showing scenes from the crashes. I ended up staying up all day watching the news in horror and sadness............
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I was teaching 6th grade at the time and one of our second grade teachers came around and told everyone what had happened. We let the older kids watch the news that afternoon. It all seemed so surreal at the time.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
I was actually driving to my job at the exact time it all went down. The radio in the van I was driving did not work, so I had no idea what had happened. When I saw my boss, he told me that 2 planes just hit the towers and I assumed they were small private planes and it was an accident. As more info was being released, the reality of what was going on was blowing my mind. I live pretty close to NYC, so it was pretty surreal for me. I still can't believe that was 7 years ago already. Still seems like it just happened.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
I was at work and someone came running in yelling "turn on the TV set". So, we all ran over and saw the aftermath of the first plane hitting. They showed it over and over... I stood there watching it and I couldn't help but thinking it wasn't an accident. Just then I turned to my coworkers and said, it's not over yet... It was this weird feeling I got. About ten minutes later, the second plane hit. We saw it live on TV. I called my mom (who lived in New Jersey)and asked her if she knew what was going on. She said it was all over the news and everyone was talking about it. Then she told me that mt sister (who lives on Long Island) had an appointment in Manhattan that day and she couldn't get her on her cell phone. I started calling everyone I knew that might know where my sister was and everyone said she was in Manhattan. Her husband was getting pretty nervous at this point. About two hours later my sister called me and said that she had an appointment in the building directly across the street from the Twin Towers that morning but she got stuck in traffic (thank God). and they had closed off all of the roads etc etc... It was her lucky day for sure. It was a terrible day for the world. Please, lets never forget what happened that day, and, pray for those who lost loved ones...
Posted by xchazx (Member # 7158) on :
i was at work listening to howard stern as always when someone interupted what he was talking about to say an airplane had hit one of the towers, but no one knew what type of plane it was at the time. contrary to what you may think, he was brilliant that day and really didn't get the recognition he deserved for his show that day and the days after. when everbody else was figuring out when it was "ok to laugh again", he never missed a show.
my brother was supposed to go to wall street that day to visit a friend of his who worked there, but the friend called out sick and he never went. i was very happy to find that out too.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
It's weird, because tomorrow is my 16th wedding anniversary, and 9-11 hit right between my birthday and my anniversary. On this day....I was getting ready to go outside and cut my grass-the weather was gorgeous...my husband was at work, my son was in school. My mom called me on the phone to tell me to turn on the TV (otherwise I would never have known)...I could not believe what I was seeing. It just hadhappened, and the 1st building was on smoking.
I will never forget it...I couldn't believe that it was happening. I was so scared...I didn't know if I should go get my son out of school, or what...
I remember we were in our hot tub a few nights later, and it was so weird, because before we use to watch all the planes in the sky, and there was no movement in the sky at night.
I remember that my husband and I had planned to go to the movies for our anniversary...but I didn't really want to go...but our friends said to go, that they would watch my son, and we never went out alone ever...so we went to the movies to see "The Others" The only other people in the movie theater besides us...was all these old people...that they must have brought in from a nursing home...because there was an old person on the end of every aisle...and we were the only ones sitting in the middle seats. It felt very twilight zonish. I remember when I left, I put my hands in my coat pockets, and I pulled out a necklace with a cross on it...I knew it sure wasn't mine, and I kept wondering how did it get in my pocket...then I realized it was my mom's, and she had wore my coat when she had been to visit me...and she could never remember where she had put her necklace.
So, it was definately memorable to me, for various reasons.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
Same goes for me 80'sRocked.I can`t believe it`s 7 years ago already.I was fixing some dinner(lasagne),and watching tv.I even recall the nice weather,and a phone call earlier that day in detail.And that`s me who even cant remember who i called yesterday Then there was that live news coming on.I will never ever forget that day or those scenes.It was indeed a turning point in history right before my eyes,and i knew it at the time.Some of the scenes haunted me for weeks.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
It is strange how you can remember every detail of that day by the minute, but usually can't recall what you did yesterday. I'm sure it's like that for everybody. I know it is for me.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I was just watching the History channels. They did a special where they talked to 9 different people who caught it all on their videocameras.
The film footage was unbelievable...I didn't remember exactly what time it happened, or how long it took in between the 2 building for them to collapse. It happened before 10am, and the other one collapsed right before 10:30am.
It is still crazy that they accomplished that.
I honestly thought that the building would hold up at the bottom.....but that the top would be destroyed.
I watched that movie "Cloverfield" at the movies- and it made me sick from the motion of the way it was taped...but I really thought it had too much of a 9-11 feel to it...they took the head of the Statue of Liberty and rolled it down a street in that movie...and people were running, and smoke was everywhere...it was in New York, and the bridge collapsed...and I just think they shouldn't have done that...it was too closely similar to 9-11.
I can't imagine how horrific that had to be to be in that...and then to be engulfed in the smoke and ashes...and not be able to breathe...it was awful to watch.
I can not even begin to understand how they cleaned it all up too. I know there's a ton of people in New York to help....but where do you start...and where do they take all the debris to...it just was so horrible.
I can't stand to watch King Kong (the 70's version)now ....and it was one of my favorite all time movies. It was filmed not too soon after the Trade Center was built.
My friend who works for David Letterman , he was in the Trade Center the day before this happened. My Aunt and her family had just been on a trip to New York just months before it, and they went to the top of the Trade Center to the observation deck.
I was in New York in 1989...and I went to the top of the Empire State Building...but I was too chicken after that to go to the top of the Trade Center.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
My parents toured the towers on the last day of their vacation September 9th just two days before the attacks..............
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Because of the time difference, most of Australia didn't know what was happening until the morning of September 12. The planes hit just before 11pm, and I'd gone to bed only 15 minutes before, I normally would have stayed up to watch The West Wing but was too tired, if I'd stayed up I'd have seen it happening live on the late night news.
I woke up around 4am, and turned my radio on to help me get back to sleep... and I heard them say "the worst act of terrorism in history". I sat bolt upright in bed and listened for a few minutes before going out to the loungeroom where I did what everyone else did that day - sat and watched TV all day.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Me and my then girlfriend had both called in sick, so we could stay in bed all day. I was flipping through the channels, and stopped dead on CNN showing the first tower burning, we just sat there and watched without saying anything, and after the second tower collapsed, I rember saying to her "This is gonna change the world!" and it did.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
I was working a graveyard shift and my boss radioed me saying that terrorists had just bombed the Pentagon. I turned on the TV and saw the reports about the planes flying into the WTC and saw the live footage of the towers collapsing. It was early in the morning here, so most people didn't hear about it until they woke up a few hours later. Such a sad day.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
As many of you might know, my mother, aunt and bestfriend worked in the trade center. Living on Staten Island, I was able to see the fire from the roof of the school that I work at, and trying to find the people that I knew and cared about wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. I had about 15 people that I knew that died, no one that close, but people that I played basketball with, people I went to college with, a kid that I went to camp with, and the youngest firefighter that died, I was him monitor when he was in the 2nd grade, and I was in the 5th. He graduated with my brother.
My wife's uncle and my mother were both in the trade center in 1993 for the first bombing as well, and they both made it out of both, so September 11th for me is significant.
Looking at the New York Skyline when I took the ferry to college everyday, you kind of took the skyline for granted.
Everyone I knew was calling me, because they knew my mother worked there. She was home later that day, rattled, worried, and relieved to be home. Every conversation for awhile was started with "Did you know anyone in the trade center?"
I tell this story from a point of view, I think it's important that it's not celebrated as a holiday because all of these people were going into work, and on that day (when it's on a weekday) we do the same.
We are DEVO
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Devo-I never knew that about your mom ....how come she wasn't there on that day? Or had she been there, and was able to get out?
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
Yes, she was in and got out. She was on the 54th floor.
We are DEVO
Posted by All hope is NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
I was recovering from ear surgery the day before. I thought I was suffering anaesthetic after effects when I was hearing the news...
Noms Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I don't visit NYC as much as I should, but when I visited Ground zero in 2004 I felt really emotionally overwhelmed. When I see movies filmed in NY pre 9/11 and see the Twin Towers intact in scenes it's a real downer for me.
Posted by Spooka Lupa (Member # 2700) on :
I was in 6th grade when it happened. I remember not understanding exactly what was going on, and the teachers had the news on. Most of my classes we just talked, and some of the teachers had us leave the classrooms to go outside. I remember talking with friends about who we thought it was, and why it happened. One of my teachers said that he was certain that this Osama Bin Laden that was being mentioned was the one responsible. Turns out he was right.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Devo-that would have been one giant nightmare. Does she have any problems from it.... was it total craziness in there when they were evacuated...or were people not sure what was happening...did people even think for 1 second that it was possible for the whole building to collapse?
That is the part that I can not understand...I could never believe that they both just crumbled to the ground and disappeared.
I watched the movie "World Trade Center" With Nicholas Cage...it was kind of slow, but it was true ...those were 2 real life firemen who were the last to come out alive.
I hope all the time that nothing like it ever happens again.
I know right after it happened...they talked about rebuilding it.
Do they still talk about that? Who would want to work in a building like that ever again?
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I watched the movie "World Trade Center" With Nicholas Cage...it was kind of slow, but it was true ...those were 2 real life firemen who were the last to come out alive.
Not to be picky but in the film weren't they Port Authority policemen?
Noms Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
Yes they were Port Authority Policemen. But they wore turnout gear like the fire fighters I believe, while they were in the WTC. I have never seen the movie all the way through. I can never make it through more then 5 minutes at a time.
My father is a fire fighter. Retired now, in Michigan. He is the chief if a small hometown volunteer department. We lived in NYC at the time. My mom had gotten a job there, and the whole family moved.
The morning of Spetember 11th, I decided to have breakfast with my daddy, yes I am 25 now and still call my dad daddy! He has always been my hero, before anyone else ever thought of him as one. He was working engine 101 that day. I was up early for practice, and starving. I knew the guys would take care of me at the station. They always have the best food!
I had not been there 10 minutes when choas hit. I don't remember much of anything. Just everyone jumping to their feet and running to the truck. My dad yelled over his shoulder to stay right there. Don't you dare go anywhere. He had that smile on his face of "if you dare touch my food, we will have words when I get back".
I sat in dispatch for maybe a good 10 minutes when I noticed people coming in to the station and asking what they needed to do. I was confused, and thinking "need to do what?"
When I saw the tv finally and sat down to watch it with Kevin, he was staying over from his shift to wash his car, reality finally came to me. My dad was in one of the towers. At first I wasn't worried. My dad was the best. He knew what he was doing. It was a fire. But after a split second, I realized it was much more than that. Kevin got up and yelled at me to stay right where I was. Just like my daddy. I knew in that second, things were not going to be alright.
When the first tower collapsed, I lost control of everything. I am typically a very un-emotional person, but I couldn't contain myself. I started screaming and crying. I wanted to get out of the station, out of this nightmare. All I could think about, was my daddy is there. Was he in there? Where is he? Please don't be gone daddy. My insides felt as if they were boiling, yet I was shivering with fright. My hands were shaking so bad, I couldnt even pick up the phone to call my mom. I am not sure how long I cried, curled up under the office table in a ball. My cell phone rang and it was my sister in Texas. She didn't say hello, she didn't even make sure it was me on the phone. She just screamed at me "WHERE IS HE"? I couldn't even stutter a word to her, and yet in the silence she knew what I couldn't say.
My mom had the worst fears out of all of us. She didn't know where her daughter, husband and best friends were. She couldn't get through to anyone. Her calls never reached my cell phone. She finally got to the station about an hour or two later. When she found me sitting under the desk, we cried together. Her tears were out of fear, and gladness. She told me later she was afraid I had riden with them on their call. I was allowed to do that in a previouse town we had lived in, but not in NYC.
Finlly, in the darkness of everything, a few firemen I had nver met came to the station. We attacked them with questions, if they knew where my daddy was. None of them knew.
My mom and I sat there, forever it felt like. The burning inside me had gone, all that was left was numbness. A feeling of not knowing what to feel. Words can not describe it. I laid there with my head in my mothers lap, even though I was 18, I needed her. I had my eyes shut, afraid to open them to the scene surrounding me.
I felt a heavy hand lay on my shoulder, and felt my mother sob. When I opened my eyes, there was my fathers face, close to mine. An amazing surge of emotion rang throught me. I wrapped my arms around him and he collapsed next to us on the floor. We were all crying and holding on. I didn't care that he was bleeding, covered in brown dust. I never knew how hard you could cry until that day. I thought I had lost the man in my life, my daddy, my best friend.
We moved a few months later. My mom has a fear of being in large citys now. If we get in a crowded room, she has to be holding my dad's hand. Sometimes she leaves pink marks on his hand because she hold on so tight! My father still fights fire. He will until he dies. He loves his job, and we all respect him for it. Thankfully they live in a small town where the largest building is hospital that is 2 story! This makes my mom much more at ease. He has respitory problems, and recently has gotten migrains that come back 2 or so times a week. Just in the past few years was he able to share his side of the story. My mom and I talk about ours openly with people. It helps us to I think. But my daddy, he has a hard time. From what ha has shared, we know that he was at the base of the towers for a short time. He was radiod to come back three blocks to help set up incident command. When the first tower came down, he took cover under an ambulance. We know he was trapped under there for awhile and could not move. He still doesn't know who helped him out, but he said two teenage boys were using there bear hands to help dig a hole large enough for him to fit out. (I wish I could find out who they were. If not for them.....) He has nightmares too. And sometime's, if he hears something fall he has to excuse himself and will go to be alone somewhere for awhile.
He doesn't go into much detail, and we don't push. Maybe I am better off not knowing.
I was married to my wonderful husband on September 11th 2004. We dedicated it to the survivors, the perished, and all those who were effected. Instead of gifts, we asked for donations to the 911 firefighters family fund. We also released butterflys on the beach to take our prayers and thanks to all those who lost their lives.
I know I will never forget. My own nightmares remind me.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
EleanorJune- Wow that is an amazing story, and I am so glad that it had a happy ending. Your Dad is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. A friend of mine who worked in a prison, he was attacked, along with another man...the man that was his friend was stabbed 8 times, but survived. My friend has visions of that whole scene over and over. Sometimes things are just so horrible that it puts your body in to shock, and sometimes therapy is needed to deal with the whole thing.
I hope your daddy is getting some help. He sure sounds like a great guy.
My Dad was a fire man for 42 years, and he died 4 years ago of brain cancer. I remember as a kid...how many times he went out on calls...we lived right across the street from the fire department. My Dad was always the first one in the building. I remember he thought once that he had picked up a baby, because of all the smoke-he couldn't see...he just felt something moving under a blanket and wrapped it up...and it was the family's dog...everyone cheered when he came out with it.
I remember my Dad coming home smelling like smoke...and his face would be all black.
My brother has been a fireman now for 18 years. He recently saw an Amish house on fire, when he was driving by it....nobody was home...they were all at church...he said to me...try finding a bucket of water in an Amish house...he had to smash a hole in the chimney...and he got the fire out.
I remember when the movie "Backdraft" came out...my brother loved it, and he loves Ladder 49.
That is awesome that you got married on 9-11.
Such a great story.
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Posted by All hope is NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
Originally posted by ISIS: Your Dad is suffereing from post partum stress disorder. Stress as the result of a traumatic birth?????
Surely you mean post traumatic stress disorder. And if so...Are you a psychiatrist? Have you ever assessed her daddy? Then please don't make sweeping diagnoses like that. She describes him as having nightmares and needing to be on his own from time to time, this does not indicate true Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and there are a myriad of other symptoms one would be looking for. He may well have PTSD but he is just as likley to be sufferring from a stress reaction, adjustment disorder or various other complaints. P
I do agree with you on one point though, I hope he is getting professional help for his problems.
Noms
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Posted by All hope is NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
To Eleanor June,
That was a great story and I'm glad it had a happy ending.
I have sent you a PM, please check it out.
Noms Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Eleanor June, thank you for sharing your story, it was incredibly powerful. My dad was a volunteer firefighter in our rural town, and at the time, I knew that if something like 9/11 had happened aroudn here, he would have been right there helping. I'm so glad you and your family still have your dad.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Noms-yeah I goofed on what I had written....thank you so so so much for pointing out...yet again...that I wrote a word wrong....but post traumatic stress is so extremely common in situations of "extreme stress"...that I think she probably knew what I meant to say. But, anyway if not...I am so glad you are always there to just fix everything.
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
Guys - please don't start bickering on a thread, especially with such a topic as this one.
Isis, Noms is a professional in this field, and as such was doing what anyone in his position and with his training would do, whether online or face to face - ensuring that any comments about the health and well-being of a person were at the least factually correct, and that the help and assistance being sought was being provided by trained professionals.
It wasn't a dig at you, more a desire to make sure that no well-intentioned misinformation was passed on and that the story with the happy ending above continues to have a happy ending.
I note you have now edited your post above - I hope that this draws a line under this issue.
Now - back to work!
Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
There are so many stories without happy endings, that I wanted to share mine. Though the story in no way is happy, and I don;t consider the ending happy, I just consider my family one of the very lucky ones.
My entire family, including siblings that were not with us at the time, have all sought professional help. My dad continues to, and probably will for the rest of his life. He is still the wonderful man today that he was befor. He has made great progress over the years. Though, his mental ailments are not as bad as his physical. I still think his respitory issues are far worse than that. But I am not a doctor. I just go off what he tells me....that is after I have to call and pry it out of him after the doctors appointment! Usually bribe him with
Thank you to everyone for everything. My family has grown from this, and it has brought us closer. I hope that after reading my story, you call a friend you have not talked to in awhile, kissed someone you love deeply, just embrace the people that mean the most to you. I wish it hadn't taken this for me to be close to my family.
Thanks again everyone!! You are all such a great group of people. Though I have never met a single one of you, you still have a place in my heart.
ISIS- Thank you. And I send my prayers and thanks to your father. I know how difficult it can be, to watch your dad on the truck. To see him on the news. I am so thankful there are men and women like your dad, brother, and mine.
Stitch Groover- Please tell your father thank you, if you can. Being a volunteer is amazing. He can say "I save lives in my spare time". But above that, he is giving so much of himself so unselfishly.
Much love to you all.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
At the time i was stunned by the events.The images were unbelievable.I can`t imagine how it must have been like at the scene,or for all of them who had loved ones involved.Thanks for sharing your story EleanorJune.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
EleanorJune-Thanks for your kind words! Your pretty cool...you have a great attitude about life.
Paul...I know I wrote the wrong word...what I meant and what I wrote was wrong...so I did correct it. But, I do know the difference between the 2 things. Like I said...my friend who was a probation officer/hostage negotiator/counselor- suffers from post traumatic stress.
Posted by All hope is NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
And the point I was making was that just because you know someone who suffered PTSD doesn't mean you should make the assumption that someone else is.
PTSD is a medical diagnosis based on criteria laid down in DSM IV or ICD 10 and is not a term that should be thrown around loosely.
I base this on the fact that its my job, not because I knew one person who had it. (For the record in my 3 month tour of Afghanistan I only treated 2 genuine cases of PTSD. I have treated many more since)
Perhaps if you'd said he may have PTSD instead of he has PTSD then maybe I wouldn't be so annoyed at your on the spot diagnosis.
Noms
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Posted by vashti1999 (Member # 1837) on :
I had just arrived at my workplace, in Valley Stream New York, not very far from Manhattan. I took a bus to work at that time. Had to walk a bit from the bus stop to my job and noticed how beautiful the morning was here in New York City, not a cloud in the sky.
The first news I heard was from a coworker who said another coworker said a plane crashed into one of the WTC towers. Soon enough the word spread around the office to the point where every gathered around the TV in the cafeteria to watch the news unfold on tv.
Work ended early for us that day. My office was near a shopping mall and the mall closed early. There was such confusion that even though I'd left work hours early I was still late getting home. Needless to say it was a sad, scary day.
I didn't know anyone personally who was killed that day, but of course was still sad for all the victims in NY, DC and PA.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Just giving this thread a bump in case some of the newer Rewinder's feel like sharing....it's amazing that another year has past by so fast.
Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
i had just gotten to work that morning and heard it on the radio so we put the t.v. on and watched it all day so scary and sad. there were alot of things going on here in buffalo yesterday masses, benefits etc. we flew our special 9/11 flag at home can't believe it was 8 years ago already still seems like it happened yesterday?
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I was at home and watched the news for two days straight...I finally had to force myself to turn the TV off...it was too emotionally draining...emotionally draining for someone safe and sound in Canada, so I can't imagine the effects on people directly invloved in the crisis. I have a painting of the Brooklyn Bridge in my living room, with the Twin Towers still in the pic...absolutely unbelievable. * On a side note...my neice's birthday is on September 11...so it's nice to remember the date for positive reasons as well.
Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on :
Living in England it was about 1.47pm when the attacks happened i can remember someone i worked with hearing on the radio that a plane had hit the WTC at that time they didn't know it was terrorists.We have a TV in our workplace so i turned it on and every channel had a report on the attack,i agree with everyone who says it's an event that changed the world we live in forever.One strange thing from that day that i remember is for the rest of the day at work the phone did not ring,it just seems that everyone wherever they were was engrossed in what was happening. In October 2007 i was able to visit New York and stayed at the Marriot hotel just a couple of blocks from the trade center site,even though it was just an empty pit then you could not get over what had happened there,and have to say i was left with a very strange feeling of loss having visited the place and the memorial museum.Maybe this is because it is a place that we have all seen on TV so much that we feel linked to the events that day.Also what bought hope the scale of the place was when i used the train to get out to New Jersey and it passed through the corner of the site,looking out the window when you are that low down reminds you how massive the place was. The only bit of that trip that i didn't like was when you were at the site just quitely taking things in people tried selling you pictures of the buildings getting hit on the day,but i guess there is scum everywhere trying to make money out of sad events. One more thing and sorry for rambling on like this,but the brass picture engraving along the side of the fire house across from the WTC site is a very moving peice of artwork.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
In honor of
John Rivera Michael Cammerata Terrance Aiken F.T. Aquilino
People that at one time I knew, played basketball with, went to school with and never made it out.
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Then there was that live news coming on.I will never ever forget that day or those scenes.It was indeed a turning point in history right before my eyes,and i knew it at the time.Some of the scenes haunted me for weeks.
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