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Post by R6ix on Apr 28, 2004 1:49:04 GMT 1
just watched this tribute to sept 11, very moving? who has visited the wtc in the past? i havnt, but wish i did now? home.comcast.net/~sept11/
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Post by shrewinjapan on Apr 28, 2004 1:59:11 GMT 1
I went there in Nov 2000 on a belated honeymoon trip. We went down to the basement where there was a cheap broadway ticket stall to buy tickets for a show (shorter queues than the one in Times Square). Same area that those firemen were rushing about in on film just before it came crashing down I think. Popped outside to look up at the Towers. Unimaginably huge. Couldn't believe what I was seeing on the TV less than a year later. An incredibly terrible event.
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Post by Shrews and Royals on Apr 28, 2004 8:08:17 GMT 1
I probably have a lot more than most to be grateful for that week.
Because of the pelvic problems I had with Louis' pregnancy, Mr S&R changed his trip to the US to go in July - otherwise he would have been at a financial conference in the district that day, as usual, and may have done a breakfast meeting at the Restaurant at the top of the World.
It was very scary looking at his prior schedules - on previous trips he'd been in meetings on the 83rd and 86th floors at the time the planes hit.
He was back for the following year and took photos to show the size of the destruction - it never really showed it clearly on the telly.
I kid from school lost an aunt, another her future sister in law who was at the publishing conference.
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Post by Flixton_shrew on Apr 28, 2004 11:09:11 GMT 1
It was a truly shocking event. My brother in law had moved to New York a year before it happened and his walk to work took him past the towers - he has been that way 1/2 hr before the first plane hit. His girlfriend was back at their flat and was trying to contact him but the phone networks were down.
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Apr 28, 2004 11:47:50 GMT 1
Can remember sitting at Work and being the forst to break the news to the rest of the office - most people did not belive me but as time when on and the internet eventually packe up every one just went home as the news was so shocking + and we were near london so people were worried about themselves.
During the summer visisted the Twin Towers/WTC site 2 times this August. The first was on a Sunday when i went to have a look and see what the aftermath and to do the tourist thing and take pictures talk to New Yorkers who stand there recounting there storys, but it was nothing like i expected, very somber and the scene is still one of tottal devestation and construction work. The most moving thing is the tempory scaffolding Boards tha have ben turned into a moving tribute from people all around the world putting messages of good luck and sympathy to the people who suffered from the event and to the people of New York.
I put two things
"The Price family Shrewsbury UK - NY you will pull through and the whole world is behind you"
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"STFC wishs the familsy of the WTC victims the deepest condolances" (i was wareing my town shirt so that felt right)
I was so moved i could not being my self to take pictures as it felt wrong and so i left with a havey heart.
The next day i was down the bottom of Manhatten again looking at WallStreet and i went back to WTC too see if it was the same scene on a Monday - it was not - full of Tourists just treating like it was some movie set, i took some pictures that day but not to gloat about the fact i had been there more to try and convay the devestation to my family and friends
It is a sad sad place but NYers are pulling through and the new monumnet buliding bigger than the originals will be a testiment to the attitude of the people of Manhatten
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