9-11 - Five Years Past
There is a quiet in the city this morning. I feel like an outsider - I never saw the Twin Towers, I didn't know anyone who was killed, I had been to New York only one night (and never Manhattan), on September 11, 2001. I was living in Atlanta five years ago, and while I certainly was affected and shaken and upset about what happened, it was nothing like how those who lived here were touched. Which is why I can't write a full post about it - I don't feel like I have the right.
posted by Shoshana @ 10:05 AM
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9/11 changed the entire world, you most certainly have the right to write whatever your feelings are. I know someone who died in the Twin Towers and between all the news coverage I watched this morning at the gym, I feel overwhelmed. It's weird for me to be here in Manhattan now but not to have been here 5 years ago. I guess I kind of feel the same way you do, although I was touched more closely. My uncle was working across the street from the Twin Towers and saw the 2nd plane hit. I also had many friends working in NYC at the time who were stuck in various places.
What Sara said.
I was wondering what it was like for people not in the city or in DC. I was in North Brooklyn when it happened and I was soon hanging out with a number of cops and listening to their radio. There was the sense that anything was possible in our new screwed-up world.
If there was a report of tanks rolling over the Brooklyn Bridge and amphibious landing craft in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, we would have believed it. Remember the reports of a car bomb at the State Dept and fires all over the National Mall? I wondered if folks outside of NY had that sense.
Sara -
It certainly did change the world. And it is weird being in Manhattan now, today, but not then. Feeling (kind of) like a New Yorker, but not having gone through that trauma.
R2JB -
It definitely wasn't the same. It was surreal, and all that was talked about, on TV and the radio, was talk of what happened, with rumors abound. But we didn't have the same fear that those living in NY had.
It was such a beautiful day today. I was out for lunch and I couldn't help but think that this is probably what it was like on 9/11 5 years ago. Was very surreal walking through Manhattan, among all the skyscrapers, today.
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