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I think I'm going to vomit.
I have to get this out and this seems like the best of
the current threads to do it.
I was in the World Financial Center when the planes struck.
My manager was on the top floor and actually saw the attack. He called me,
and of course we all ran to the windows. I have never seen such a sight.
Three or four floors about 70 stories up were destroyed. On the ground there
were people running around, debris had crushed some cars and caused some
fires.
But then, I saw one, then another person fall out of the
hole in the side of the building. I have never seen anything that has disturbed
me more than that. I can still see him falling. [Nightmares for weeks.]
After the second plane hit there was chaos in the building,
and we all evacuated. I just sat there dumbfounded; my mouth was just hanging
open. Finally I just started to walk home, and felt like I was going to throw
up the whole way. Thankfully I was able to get far enough away before they
collapsed.
I can't believe the WTC is gone. Walking over the bridge
I kept trying to see the building and I couldn't. But I just repeated to
myself that there was just too much smoke to see them. And when I saw the
news and saw the towers fall I couldn't even think straight. Gone. All of
those people. The observation deck, Windows on the World, and the lobby with
all of the world flags that I walked through everyday on my way to work.
Gone.
I live next to La Guardia Airport and the air is eerily
quiet except for the occasional fighter plane.
This isn't supposed to happen here.
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