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I'll pass.
After one short stay I dicovered I am alergic to bars in my window.

i was in school as a junior in high school. we were in gym class when they told us about it and took us to the lounge where there was a TV to watch it. my friends and i were crying because we had family that lived close by. i got a call from my dad a few minutes later letting me know that hes trying to contact his family to see if there ok. his aunt works at the WTC, but thank GOD she was off that week. we are still shaken about the thought that if she never had it off, we wouldnt know what to do.
to this day i am still shaken up. my boyfriend was watching a TV show about the event and it showed people jumping off the buildings. very disturbing and i got pissed at him for watching it. damn this.....

And on this note isn't it about damned time someone started filling in the hole and building something in its place?

We are a laughing stock because of this. I cannot think of anywhere else other than NYC that a hole in the ground would take so long to be reused and built on again.

The tragedy is upon those who lost their lives for absolutely nothing but madness, so how do we deal with it? Read names each year.

I'd prefer progress in my name any day of the week than squabbling about final drafts and who does what, who pays, whose truck needs moving and so on. Providing of course the money needed was not lost in this depression?

Shame.

I was at a client's factory when the news came in. Went straight home and watched the news with my wife and kids. We were planning to attend a family reunion in Bergen County NJ on the 15th of Sept that year and it almost didn't happen due to travel restrictions. It went on though, so while back home I went out to Englewood Cliffs and watched the smoldering pile of WTC, smoking a joint with old friends who had lost loved ones. My cousin was a trader at the time, but that morning was working in her company's NJ office...lucky for her.

In operations doing load planning / weight & balance for an airline.
Actually ran up into the concourse to grab some breakfast and the news was showing a replay of some kind of plane hitting one of the towers.
(Underneath the concourse at the time, later moved to a secondary tower)
I didnt look like a big plane to me at that moment, and I think they were even speculating on the news that it was some private pilot gone astray.
So I run back down to operations, and tell everybody 'some guy just rammed his plane into one of the skyscrapers in new york, its on t.v. right now.'
I run back up to the concourse to check out the t.v. again and I'm standing there gawking and listening to them speculate.
Then I see something else hit the other tower at high rate of speed.

So... ran back down to ops, and said "The sh*t is about to officially hit the fan. Turn on the radio." (a.m. radio)

And shortly thereafter, all hell broke loose.
FAA gives the word out to ground all planes.
We had planes landing wherever they could, all over the country and even canada.
Just, find a airstrip and get it down now, wherever they happened to be.

Approximately 2 hours after that they shut Denver International down, and everyone except a skeleton crew had to leave. (Was 'evacuated')

I had some lady flight attendant that Id never seen before clutching on to me as everyone was making the exodus out, wanting me to promise her that Id get her out safely.

Id say a fair number of people that knew what was going on, got a little panicky.

So yah... I wasnt in NYC, but that tragedy affected me in my own personal way.
Middle of a sh*t storm and all that.

And yes, this is a "late to the party post", but I havent been active much for awhile here.

It was my birthday........still is.

I had to work a double shift that day and it seemed like it only took a few hours! I was listening to the radio reports in my headphones while working and driving into the office occasionally to watch the news footage. The entire day was surreal!

I was in 7th grade, In art class. Everyone ran over the the window, Till they brought a TV in, It was really emotional.