They may have been gray blocks, but the skyline just doesn't look right without them...
No it doesn't.
I was a toddler when the towers were completed, and could see them from my window. It really hurt seeing them come down.
September 11th, 2001--Memorial Thread
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No it doesn't.
I was a toddler when the towers were completed, and could see them from my window. It really hurt seeing them come down.
Out of curiosity, how would they ever demolish any of the skyscrapers in Manhattan? I mean how would they bring down the Empire State Building when it MUST be done some day?
The dust cloud would be just as immense, and all the buildings nearby would be damaged, too.
The dust cloud would be just as immense, and all the buildings nearby would be damaged, too.
I saw it from my fifth-floor classroom window in Queens. Tough to carry on teaching when you've got a panoramic view of an inferno out your window (even with the shades closed). What took me a long time to come to terms with was the realization that I (along with countless others, obviously) was an eye-witness to mass murder.
Here's to those who lost their lives -- the victims and the heroes -- and those who've toiled since then to clean up and rebuild Ground Zero.
Here's to those who lost their lives -- the victims and the heroes -- and those who've toiled since then to clean up and rebuild Ground Zero.
ST-One
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Maybe they will just 'deconstruct' them to a hight at which it is save to blast them.
If you're interested, here is news coverage from Sept 11 from the major networks. It's interesting to watch how absolutely banal some of the "news" of the morning was.
http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive
http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive
They can't do that. It's not possible to demolish buildings in that manner. That's a violation of New York law. Buildings can't be imploded.
It's why the old sports stadiums (Shea Stadium, Giants Stadium, and old Yankee Stadium) had to be taken down piece by piece. It would have been illegal to blow them up. Plus it would also have damaged the new stadiums going up right next door to them as well.
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The CNN feed... that image of the one tower burning and smoking was the first image I saw when I came home from school that day and turned on the TV; I got to see the second impact live while my lunch turned cold in front of me.
I was watching the live replay MSNBC has been doing for years, and I'm impressed with the job they did with the limited information they had available.
I cannot remember exactly how many months later we went into the city, but we had theater tickets to see a show, so while we were there, we visited Ground Zero to pay our respects. These were the photos i took that day. I think it may have been in November. Everyone that i knew that worked there made it out alive, but i do know people who lost friends or family there.
Those are the kind of pictures that should be preserved and passed down through the family right there. Very powerful stuff.
My little town here on LI was home to a NYC firefighter who died that day. Our firehouse puts up a memorial every year and renamed the street that the firehouse sits on in his honor.
My cousin was a firefighter in the Bronx, and on 9/11 he was off for the day. He was at a doctor's appointment and by the time he heard the news he wasn't able to make it into the city. My sensei at the time was also a firefighter and his house was one of the first to arrive on scene. He lost most of his brothers (fellow firefighters from his firehouse) that day.
For months the funerals came through our town enroute to the cemetaries. On the north road that led up to the expressway, firetrucks would have their ladders raised to their highest heights with a flag that was stretched across the road.
And everyday the front page of the newspaper had more names of the dead.
My cousin was a firefighter in the Bronx, and on 9/11 he was off for the day. He was at a doctor's appointment and by the time he heard the news he wasn't able to make it into the city. My sensei at the time was also a firefighter and his house was one of the first to arrive on scene. He lost most of his brothers (fellow firefighters from his firehouse) that day.
For months the funerals came through our town enroute to the cemetaries. On the north road that led up to the expressway, firetrucks would have their ladders raised to their highest heights with a flag that was stretched across the road.
And everyday the front page of the newspaper had more names of the dead.
The 9/11 attacks where a horrible event
I remember that day very well..what I did and felt.
It affected me deeply, even though Im from Finland.
I still have a newspaper from the next day preserved.
I recently found out, that Russia donated a 9/11 memorial to the USA. I never heard about this before.
For some reason It never was much in the news here in Europe..or maybe I missed it( I doubt it though, because after 9/11 I was reading news much more intensly than before)
Here is some info and photos of the memorial:
http://forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id12043bad9f817b4f&time=all&type=featured
I remember that day very well..what I did and felt.
It affected me deeply, even though Im from Finland.
I still have a newspaper from the next day preserved.
I recently found out, that Russia donated a 9/11 memorial to the USA. I never heard about this before.
For some reason It never was much in the news here in Europe..or maybe I missed it( I doubt it though, because after 9/11 I was reading news much more intensly than before)
Here is some info and photos of the memorial:
http://forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id12043bad9f817b4f&time=all&type=featured
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Agreed. I didn't even know about the memorial.
What a terrible tragedy 9/11 was.
I knew a woman on the plane from Boston. Her, her husband and their two year old daughter (the youngest 9/11 victim) died that day. I cannot begin to imagine what their last few minutes were like. She was a real groovy chick.
http://www.petehansonandfamily.com/
Peace and good thoughts to everyone.
I knew a woman on the plane from Boston. Her, her husband and their two year old daughter (the youngest 9/11 victim) died that day. I cannot begin to imagine what their last few minutes were like. She was a real groovy chick.
http://www.petehansonandfamily.com/
Peace and good thoughts to everyone.
I was asleep when it happened. I was starting to wake up when the radio broke regular broadcasting and said that the WTC had been hit. I thought I was still dreaming, until the radio said that the Pentagon had been hit. I was instantly awake and i turned on the TV.
I was in my office at Boston Medical Center. I had no idea anything was going on until a friend, who was home on medical leave, called me. When she said a plane hit the WTC, I first thought it was a terrible accident; when she said a second plane hit the second tower, I knew exactly what was going on and who was responsible. I couldn't get through to CNN.com because the Internet was overwhelmed, so I ran over to the lounge on L&D and watched with the nurses and doctors. That's when we heard about the crash at the Pentagon.
When I went back to my office, I could see Mass Ave was bumper-to-bumper with people heading out of the city. I found a radio and listened as first one and then the other tower collapsed. I waited until I heard that all remaining planes were reported safely down, then I went home and watched CNN all night. It was a couple of days before I went to sleep. I felt like I'd be abandoning all those people if I turned off the TV.
It was the worst week of my life. Hopefully, it always will be.
When I went back to my office, I could see Mass Ave was bumper-to-bumper with people heading out of the city. I found a radio and listened as first one and then the other tower collapsed. I waited until I heard that all remaining planes were reported safely down, then I went home and watched CNN all night. It was a couple of days before I went to sleep. I felt like I'd be abandoning all those people if I turned off the TV.
It was the worst week of my life. Hopefully, it always will be.
That's a great way of putting it.
I felt the same way. Just riveted to the TV for the first 36 hours or so.
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