remembering 9/11

[backtoschool]

I still have my dust filled clothes from that day and my trade center building identification card. They are sealed away in a box.

[AngelinaCatHub]

I still have my dust filled clothes from that day and my trade center building identification card. They are sealed away in a box.

BTS, This is good. It would be sacrilegious to put such upon eBay but in your future, it would be wise to tell the story, and show to the grand-kids. Then as we are doing, put it to a museum so that others can realize that this IN FACT DID HAPPEN!!

So soon, we forget. 'Hub

[danaf]

BTS - I was there too. I worked at 1 NY Plaza on the 50th floor....360 degrees of the entire city including the trade center. And at the time, I lived in Brooklyn Heights. It seems like yesterday - everyday despite that I, like many others have moved on.

I wasn't in one of the towers like you and yet, I experienced very severe post traumatic stress. And some freaky spiritual things in the months afterwards. To this day, I have issues with being on higher floors of a tall building.

All of those poor souls. I also lost friends.

And the countless times I was in one of the towers for work, or at Windows on the World for pleasure....I knew it was high but never could I have imagined what happened. When I think back, I didn't even think about where the emergency exits were when I was up there, not that it would have mattered 9/11.

And then the smell - when we went back to work. It was aweful.

I will never forget. I'm glad you posted.

[backtoschool]

BTS - I was there too. I worked at 1 NY Plaza on the 50th floor....360 degrees of the entire city including the trade center. And at the time, I lived in Brooklyn Heights. It seems like yesterday - everyday despite that I, like many others have moved on.

I wasn't in one of the towers like you and yet, I experienced very severe post traumatic stress. And some freaky spiritual things in the months afterwards. To this day, I have issues with being on higher floors of a tall building.

All of those poor souls. I also lost friends.

And the countless times I was in one of the towers for work, or at Windows on the World for pleasure....I knew it was high but never could I have imagined what happened. When I think back, I didn't even think about where the emergency exits were when I was up there, not that it would have mattered 9/11.

And then the smell - when we went back to work. It was aweful.

I will never forget. I'm glad you posted.

I had post traumatic stress too. I saw people die and jump off the buildings that day. I lived in Brooklyn Heights at the time too, but moved to a loft in Dumbo a few years later.

I still can smell that acrid burning smell. To this day, even a barbeque or someone burning leaves will trigger a flashback. I can no longer use a fireplace either.

I had to go back downtown for work almost immediately, (less than a week after it happened) and I remember the huge piles of melted debris with the tanks and the marines and national guards men with machine guns. I remember stepping around the huge piles of smoking acrid building debris and the endless scattered papers blowing around everywhere, and showing my ID to the National Guardsmen to get to work.

I also remember hearing f-15's flying over my apartment hourly. I also remember going to the Promenade every night to light a candle in by all the dried flowers and the posters of the missing.

I will never forget either.

[AngelinaCatHub]

danaf my friend. My heart also goes out to you. The emergency exits on the high floors would not have saved many as, if you could have gotten through any or all of them, running down hundreds of floors would take more time than allowed when the buildings "pancaked" down.

I was surprised and impressed. Not impressed good, but to see each floor falling one upon another down was a blessing in that, if the towers had fallen sideways, many more thousands including everyone within the towers would have been killed. No account for small favors, but this was a true act of war. Too bad we did not have a stronger pres in at that time. Truman or Eisenhower, or Reagan, or JFK.

In our small town, I purchased years ago (when I had money) a 9-11 monument. It took the City three years to accept this monument but they would not put it into "Memorial Park". Stit, it's called MEMORIAL PARK but I had to give it anonymously and it sits in front of the flag at City Hall. NO memorial was had. Of the three city flags, two were not raised and one was half mast. Mrs. and I put a black ribbon and red, white, blue wreath upon the stone with a picture of the plane about to hit #2.

How easy we foolish people forget. Those who do not learn by History are doomed to repeat it. 'Hub

[danaf]

BTS - Wow, I spent alot of time on the Prom too! It's a very very small world. I used to live on Remsen Street. I bet we've passed each other. I live out West now. I don't really miss NY but I do miss Brooklyn Heights! It was a great place to live.

I still have issues with low flying craft. And there are hospital helo's that fly often right by where I work. I always worry that they will crash into the building (by accident).

I too had to go back to work a week after. That smell wasn't just outside, it crept into building too. I'm sure it was like that everywhere downtown.

ACH, thanks for the kind words.

[backtoschool]

BTS - Wow, I spent alot of time on the Prom too! It's a very very small world. I used to live on Remsen Street. I bet we've passed each other. I live out West now. I don't really miss NY but I do miss Brooklyn Heights! It was a great place to live.

I still have issues with low flying craft. And there are hospital helo's that fly often right by where I work. I always worry that they will crash into the building (by accident).

I too had to go back to work a week after. That smell wasn't just outside, it crept into building too. I'm sure it was like that everywhere downtown.

ACH, thanks for the kind words.

I lived on Schermerhorn danaf! Wow it is a small world. We must have seen each other at some point.

I loved living in Brooklyn Heights, but wanted a loft "with a view" (that I couldn't afford. )

It's weird, but I am finding that I don't miss New York either. I have been gone since the beginning of the year and I haven't had any desire to go back. But I do miss the connection to different realities that living in New York gives you. Everything is homogenized where I live now. There is no diversity in sight, taste, sound, smell, or experience.

Well, it was great to "connect" with you and have a genuine 9/11 healing moment with someone who went through it like me. I am living in a place where people have forgotten, and it was very alienating this year.

Great to "meet" you!

[BigJohn]

BTS - Wow, I spent alot of time on the Prom too! It's a very very small world. I used to live on Remsen Street. I bet we've passed each other. I live out West now. I don't really miss NY but I do miss Brooklyn Heights! It was a great place to live.

I still have issues with low flying craft. And there are hospital helo's that fly often right by where I work. I always worry that they will crash into the building (by accident).

I too had to go back to work a week after. That smell wasn't just outside, it crept into building too. I'm sure it was like that everywhere downtown.

ACH, thanks for the kind words.

Small world. That name rings bells to me. Wow.