Stealing an idea from an Arfcommer. Where was everyone on September 11th 2001?
Shortly before waking up as I do any other day, I was shortly woken up by a nieghbor yelling about something, then dozed off again.
9:30ish shortly after starting the day, turned on the Howard Stern show..and was scratching my head as to why he was ranting about nuking the middle east...until he mentioned turning on CNN. Off went the radio, and on went the t.v. The first thing that appeared after finding CNN was the hole in Tower 1 with smoke billowing out of it. Then footage of the second plane hitting the other tower.
Made it in time to see both the towers collapse, and was turning away from the t.v. to use or answer the phone concerning all six cousins that used to work in the world trade center. They were fortunate enough for three to be elsewhere when the attacks happened, two evacuated the building, and the last one almost helped a FDNY fireman carry a hose up the stairs, before to younger employees cut him off and helped the fireman instead.
The three relatives working there managed to get out and find each other right before the tower collapsed. They were more fortunate than roughly 3000 other people, including the friend of my cousin that died in the collapse. She showed me a card resembling a backstage pass that the friends & relatives of those who died received while I was in New York towards the middle of September.
Shortly before waking up as I do any other day, I was shortly woken up by a nieghbor yelling about something, then dozed off again.
9:30ish shortly after starting the day, turned on the Howard Stern show..and was scratching my head as to why he was ranting about nuking the middle east...until he mentioned turning on CNN. Off went the radio, and on went the t.v. The first thing that appeared after finding CNN was the hole in Tower 1 with smoke billowing out of it. Then footage of the second plane hitting the other tower.
Made it in time to see both the towers collapse, and was turning away from the t.v. to use or answer the phone concerning all six cousins that used to work in the world trade center. They were fortunate enough for three to be elsewhere when the attacks happened, two evacuated the building, and the last one almost helped a FDNY fireman carry a hose up the stairs, before to younger employees cut him off and helped the fireman instead.
The three relatives working there managed to get out and find each other right before the tower collapsed. They were more fortunate than roughly 3000 other people, including the friend of my cousin that died in the collapse. She showed me a card resembling a backstage pass that the friends & relatives of those who died received while I was in New York towards the middle of September.
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