Remembering 9/11

[wraithfodder]

I had meant to post this last night, but it took me an hour of scouring the hard drive to find the photo...


This was the 'cross' of steel left after the attacks. I took this picture in September 2006. I went back to the site this past July and it's just a construction site now. I couldn't see anything to identify it as the site of the attacks...

I was at work, turned on the internet to surf the web briefly before starting work, and suddenly there was a photo on the Yahoo news page, of one of the towers with a hole in it. I remember thinking... how the hell could somebody fly a Cessna into a building THAT big? News was very sketchy and then more stuff started appearing on the web. Since I had AOL at work (it wasn't considered 'evil' back in those days) I IMed a friend who lived in the city. She told me what was happening. Then she told me the tower was gone. It just disappeared. She literally lived her entire life in the shadow of the towers and now it just crumbled into dust. I emailed a friend who worked in the city, only to get back a grim "fatal error" email notice. Fortunately she had been running late for work that day so wasn' ti nthe tower. Then someone came running down the hall saying that Washington DC had been attacked and my mind was going "world war III." Since it was chaos, I left, went home (lived very close) and oddly enough, popped tapes into both VCRS and chose CNN and CBS (which was the only station now remaining, as it was the only station with a spare antennae on the Empire State Building - the rest went down with the towers).


I never knew this existed until this summer when I took this photo. It's eerily stunning, and the remains of a sycamore tree root - The Trinity Root - details at www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp, but then I haven't gotten much into the city in recent years.

Now, when 9/11 comes around, oddly enough, I collect the NY Times and some other NY papers and stuff them in a box along with the original papers, and one day, I'll take a look at them and see how the world has changed. Alas, not for the better.

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Comments

[crystalheaven.livejournal.com]

It sounds so odd, but I was sitting on my teacher's desk in shop class, watching TV, when someone came in and changed the channel. I remember thinking 'What the hell movie is this?' before it sank in what exactly I was watching, and then I ran screaming into the back of the class into the shop for our teacher. (He was working one of the saws with some of the other girls in my class. I had already finished my part with the saw, hence the sitting on the desk watching TV).

All watched for a a few minutes, and then class resumed, with the teacher and the girls going back into the shop and me plopping back on the desk.

I remember watching the new fotage, and that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as the second plane hit.
Just staring at it, before bellowing at the top of my lungs for my teacher as we all realized that the first plane wasn't an accident.

In all honesty, the rest of the day is a bit of a blur. I remember watching the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, but not where I was or anything like that.

I do remember that the next day in class, there were several people that didn't show up for school.