|
I was at work that day. I worked overnights in a supermarket at the time. I remember one employee who was sent to pick up soething at another store came running in full speed saying something about a plane hitting the WTC on the radio. I thought, this must be some stupid joke. Then someone else said that another plane hit the other tower. What is this, craziness? Can't be. Then the muzak stopped on the PA and switched to CNN news, saying about the towers, and then the Pentagon. By then, many people were getting cell calls from loved ones, and they were freaking! I live in Orange Cty NY, and many families commute to NYC for their jobs. I then remember going into our produce room with 3 other guys, and the radio was talking about all these planes crashing, and how the NTSA didn't know how many were hijacked, etc. We all just looked at each other and were like "we are totally f'd". I'll also never forget the poor souls who were helping out at Ground Zero, returning home upstate, coming into my store at all hours, covered in soot, grime, and God knows what else. Those were the heroes of the day. In a personal note, my Grandpa worked to build the Towers back in the day, he was a steel worker. He witnessed the fall of the towers from a parking garage in Hackensack, after his chemo treatment. He's passed on now, but I still remember his sentiments. He looked at me with tears choked back and said it was as though the *******s drove the plane through his own heart. And I agree with him.
__________________
In the dictionary under "redundant" it says "see redundant".
|
