It's a little strange; five years ago I was on this same commuter bus going to work, but listening (via a fellow passenger's transistor radio) to the coverage of the towers collapsing. And of course we got downtown only to find that business were closing for the day and everyone was being sent home. I walked across the street to the Biltmore Hotel and spent the next three hours or so sitting in their bar, where they were providing free coffee and juice to everyone, and where the televisions were tuned to the news coverage. It seems incredible to me that that was five years ago.
Five years ago, I was driving to work, listening to a Harry Potter tape. I was driving on the highway and looking at the wonderful blue sky. I was thrilled at how blue the sky was. The tape came to the end and I took it out to put the next one in. The car radio was on NPR and I heard that there was a plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. And then there was another plane crash. I got to work and kept listening to the radio on my desk. I heard the buildings fell. Our office was next to a Navy air force field. We were told we had to evacuate the buildings. For a while our phones did not work, neither did the cell phones. Everyone was scared, cause the military planes were going off. So we went home and watched the world go crazy. My sweetie's nephew and his girl friend both worked at the WTC so we were scard about them. It later in the day before we found out they were all right, they had been late for work and escaped the hell that was there
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It's a little strange; five years ago I was on this same commuter bus going to work, but listening (via a fellow passenger's transistor radio) to the coverage of the towers collapsing. And of course we got downtown only to find that business were closing for the day and everyone was being sent home. I walked across the street to the Biltmore Hotel and spent the next three hours or so sitting in their bar, where they were providing free coffee and juice to everyone, and where the televisions were tuned to the news coverage. It seems incredible to me that that was five years ago.
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