Remembering 9/11
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wraithfodderI 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.
And there are more people's comment s on this topic at http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=537
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.
And there are more people's comment s on this topic at http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=537
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Date: 2008-09-12 06:33 pm (UTC)I get a phone call from work and they're like, "Well, training's canceled for today. In fact, we're sending everybody home and shutting down for the day..."
Me: "Bwah?"
Work: "Yeah, didn't you hear about the attacks on WTC and such and such?"
Me: "Uhm, no.... radio has said nothing."
Work: "Turn on the TV - it's all over CNN and everywhere..."
I get off the phone with them, turn on the idiot box and there it is - all over the TV. Immediately, I pick up my phone and call The Evil One who is out in HI on vacation and relay the news to him. He ended up relaying it to the friends he was staying w/ - one of whom was a deputy at the federal building, setting off another series of calls on if/when to report to work, how to get there and such...
It was a very surreal day. I ended up doing a lot of driving around - going up to St. Charles/O'Fallon, MO region (to pick up a check for the Evil One) and then, driving all the way to downtown STL to go work, because there were literally tons of stranded people we now had to try and rework their flight schedules....
The first couple of days, it was quiet at work.... then, the insane calls started coming in. The 6 minute or less call handling time was blown to hell in that time.