9/11
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Everyone should visit the 9/11 museum and memorial in lower Manhattan. It is one of the most moving experiences you'll ever have. You will all at once feel sorrow and a sense of pride. If you come to New York this is one of maybe a handful of things you must see.
I will never forget the morning after. I was on I-78 driving to Newark. From one place on the highway you could see the tops of the World Trade Center buildings. That morning as I looked at the sky towards New York to the left the sky was clear and blue, to the right the sky was filled with smoke and soot. I'll never forget that sight.
For all of the years that we lived in New York City, the twin towers were our neighbors. We could look out of our front windows and see the buildings, or if we went out we could see them very clearly. 9/11 left quite a void in the neighborhood. I remember when they were being built.
One of my clients worked on one of the upper floors of one of the towers. That morning she had a dental appointment and wasn't going in until noon. She never worked in Manhattan again. After 9/11 most of her company relocated to other space uptown, but she requested a transfer to an office in New Jersey. She couldn't bring herself to return to the city.
My county in Northern New Jersey was one of the counties that lost a lot of people in the collapse of the buildings. In a park near the county offices we have a monument made of some of the burnt and bent girders that came from the buildings. I hardly ever see anyone there, but it's on a main road and many people pass it everyday. I hope it serves as a reminder.
I will never forget the morning after. I was on I-78 driving to Newark. From one place on the highway you could see the tops of the World Trade Center buildings. That morning as I looked at the sky towards New York to the left the sky was clear and blue, to the right the sky was filled with smoke and soot. I'll never forget that sight.
For all of the years that we lived in New York City, the twin towers were our neighbors. We could look out of our front windows and see the buildings, or if we went out we could see them very clearly. 9/11 left quite a void in the neighborhood. I remember when they were being built.
One of my clients worked on one of the upper floors of one of the towers. That morning she had a dental appointment and wasn't going in until noon. She never worked in Manhattan again. After 9/11 most of her company relocated to other space uptown, but she requested a transfer to an office in New Jersey. She couldn't bring herself to return to the city.
My county in Northern New Jersey was one of the counties that lost a lot of people in the collapse of the buildings. In a park near the county offices we have a monument made of some of the burnt and bent girders that came from the buildings. I hardly ever see anyone there, but it's on a main road and many people pass it everyday. I hope it serves as a reminder.
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From: bolton
Each moment of that morning will be frozen in my memory.
From the guy walking in and saying he heard on the car radio that a plane hit one of the towers,
to figuring out something was going on by not being able to get online from nbc, yahoo, or cnn,
to huddling around an AM radio trying to get a station
to eventually winding up in the bar of the holiday inn next door because they had a TV.
It was there that we watched the first and then the second tower go down.
From the guy walking in and saying he heard on the car radio that a plane hit one of the towers,
to figuring out something was going on by not being able to get online from nbc, yahoo, or cnn,
to huddling around an AM radio trying to get a station
to eventually winding up in the bar of the holiday inn next door because they had a TV.
It was there that we watched the first and then the second tower go down.
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