I agree with Carnivorous...it was the craziest day of my life, and probably the hardest to get over. Not only the fact that we were invaded......for no reason, just attacked, but they attacked and killed thousands of innocent civilians and tore apart 10's of thousands of families and lives forever.
I was not only in NYC that day, but my building was 4 blocks away. I was at my desk when the guy next to me got a call from his wife about a plane crashing into the WTC. WE looked out hte window and papers were flying everywhere. I called my buddy to se what he heard, and then I told him I was going to walk to the WTC to se what really happened.
I walk outside, head to the WTC. I get outside my building and look up to see WTC 1 on fire. Holy shit, that;s a big fire. I decide walking thre may be a bad idea and I see everyone on the street staring. next thing I know.....ZZOOOOOM, BAM!! Plane # 2 goes crashing into the 2nd tower. All chaos broke lose, and I sat there for 10 minutes not sure what to do. do I try to get a subway uptown and get the fuck outta dodge? Do I stay and see WTF is really ogin gon? Do I go back upstairs to my office and get my wallet and crap?
People were crying and screaming. it was nuts. I went upstairs and then sirens go off and we are on lockdown, not allowed to leave the building. after about an hour of beig scaed shitless and looiing out my window watching the towers burn........and watching people jump...tower 1 goes down. Holy shit that was scary. Watching people run for their lives and then all of a sudden, tower 2 goes down. The whole downtown area was pitch black. fuckin nightmare.
Now I work at ground Zero. Literally right next to where the towers used to be.
Fucking awful and so sad. Can;t even explain it, but tomorow represents a horible horrible day in American history and something I will never be able to forget and I will never be able to think abo 9/11 without getting the worst butterflies in my stomach.
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