a friend of mine had come to pay me his rent for the month, when he woke me up he told me that a plane had hit the wtc...i didn't really think much of it, and figured it was a small private plane that got too low over the city (like the one that hit the empire state building years before). Obviously, as I got dressed and watched the second plane hit we knew it was no accident or harmless.
i was living near the hudson in nj, so we could see the city sky line from our apartments. I'll never forget seeing F-16s flying over us at top speed towards Manhattan...I remember thinking, "sweet god, the air force is flying cover missions over nyc, and its not a drill."
i had two friends living in downtown Manhattan at the time and two of my friends watching the tv at my house had family members that worked at the wtc. one of them had been late to work that day, the other one died in tower 2.
as for not caring about the wtc or lives lost, or thinking its not a big deal, then you are out of your mind. if you can't have the humanity within you to feel tremendous compassion for the men and women who died in a senseless act of violence you should at least be able to understand the significant change it brought to our world.
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07-14-2010, 02:06 AM
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