Reply #76: Horrified

[foreverdem]

I was (and still am) in NYC on 9/11 and remember that day like it was yesterday. I remember my husband calling me and telling me that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Then I saw alot of my co workers going into the pantry at work to see on the TV what was going on. Then we saw the 2nd plane hit. My boss was telling me that you could see it clearly from the window on the other side of the building. I remember watching it from the window like it was unreal. I couldn't beleive what I was seeing. Buildings were being evacuated in midtown but no one could go anywhere because Manhattan was closed off. I felt like this was happening to someone else. I remember getting chills because my husband had been offered a position with Cantor Fitzgerald just weeks before and had turned the job down because he "got a weird feeling about it". Cantor Fitzgerald lost every person that showed up for work that day.

I was not waiting to hear from *. But I do remember wondering where the hell he was, and how the mayor on NYC was the one that was everywhere. I hated * since the 2000 selection. I had no interest in what he had to say after the attack. What I was hoping was that the US would get whoever was responsible. Looking back, I see how naive that was. I wasn't a member of DU then, so I was totally uninformed. Now I see more and more that my own government was involved in the most hideous way in that horrible day and all that happened in the weeks that followed.