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In reply to the discussion: Tell me about your 9/11. [View all]meadowlander
(4,394 posts)and there was no one at the front desk but I could hear the TV on in the back office and people crying. Someone screamed and then they came out to say a second plane had hit the World Trade Centre and the university was closing for the day.
So I walked to the hospital to try to give blood and there was already a four hour line. The nurses went up and down the massive line which filled every corridor and stretched out to the street with a checklist and it turned out I couldn't because I'd lived in Britain during the black-out period for mad cow disease.
So I walked home listening to all the helicopters flying back and forth from the hospitals in Manhattan to our local hospitals and the total absence of any other air traffic.
One of my classmates had the same name as one of the people who died on the plane in Pennsylvania so we were all frantically trying to get news about him. It turned out to be someone else but the same person's father died in the WTC.