Sunday, September 10, 2006

5 Years Ago, when the World Cried

At about 8:50am, I got a call from either my father or my sister. I don't really remember which, but they told me to turn on the television to any station.

What I saw shook me forever... What I saw was unbelievable, 1 tower was smoking and people were at a standstill in the busiest city on the face of the planet. We hung up. My buddy Oliver Petterson called me and we talked for about 1 minute than the 1st building fell. he hung up saying he knew several people working in that area.

After about 10 minutes or so my mother called to see if I had been watching TV and if I had talked to Alison. At about this point WTC2 fell. It I than went over to my friend Bills house up the street, where a bunch of us were congregating, to watch on a larger TV.

There was some talk about going into the city with a friends brother who was an EMT. It was than that my boss called and said we would still be open. I showed up to work at about 4:30pm, and personally closed the store and made my boss angry in doing so at about 8:30 when I had had no customers or contact with the outside world, TV, radio, etc...

This was a day I'd never forget as both buildings were something that indentified the city to me. When I drove by during tour, I couldn't recognize the cityscape with out the WTC #1 and #2.

reading what m y sister wrote, seeing Flight 93 and WTC movies this year both retouched a nerve in a way, and ill never forget the feeling the day this happened.