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<blockquote data-quote="Feliath" data-source="post: 333014" data-attributes="member: 3008"><p>I'm a Swede, so I was comfy and far away. But I used to live in north NJ when I was younger, though I'm born in Sweden. The thing I remember most from NYC is being eight and not being able to bend my head far enough back that I cound see the top of the WTC. I remember that on my grandmother's burthday, she had come over to visit us in the US, and we ate at the restaurant that was at the top of one tower.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, this is September 11th, 2001:</p><p>I was sick. I had had a cold for two days. I was in my dorm room at school, and another guy in the dorm came and knocked on the door. (I always kept it locked.) He said "Holy BLAP! They crashed a plane into the WTC!" This guy is an annoying joker, for the most part, so I looked at him skeptically. But I heard sincerity. "Seriously?" I asked, slightly taken aback. "YES!!" So we ran off to the coomon room, where the good TV was. The short way there, the only non-expletive in my syddenly brimming mind was "<strong><em>Can not be happening.</em></strong>" </p><p></p><p>Many of the others in the corridor were there already. (The others filtered in as they came back from school; the time gap made it early afternoon.) So I sat there, completely numb, seeking solace from people I mostly disliked, and we saw the second plane hit the second tower in real time. I said it out loud: "What if it falls?" Soon after, one tower was completely obscured by smoke - or so it seemed - and one of the others sensed it had happened. "Oh my god. It's GONE. It FELL." Sure enough, seconds later they showed footage of it going down. And from there on it's just a jumble of numbness, aside from calling my dad, who had flowen to Boston on a business trip that morning, and my mom, to see if they knew already. The next thing i actually remember is the next morning in school, saying to a classmate:</p><p></p><p>"I just hope I never have to start telling a true story with: 'Once, there was a city.' "</p><p></p><p>Seeing it is still unreal. I don't think it'll <em>ever</em> become real. I saved all the newspapers from the following day I could.</p><p></p><p>/Feliath</p><p></p><p>Edit: <a href="http://www.angryflower.com/septem.gif" target="_blank">this</a> puts it best of anything I've seen so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feliath, post: 333014, member: 3008"] I'm a Swede, so I was comfy and far away. But I used to live in north NJ when I was younger, though I'm born in Sweden. The thing I remember most from NYC is being eight and not being able to bend my head far enough back that I cound see the top of the WTC. I remember that on my grandmother's burthday, she had come over to visit us in the US, and we ate at the restaurant that was at the top of one tower. Anyhow, this is September 11th, 2001: I was sick. I had had a cold for two days. I was in my dorm room at school, and another guy in the dorm came and knocked on the door. (I always kept it locked.) He said "Holy BLAP! They crashed a plane into the WTC!" This guy is an annoying joker, for the most part, so I looked at him skeptically. But I heard sincerity. "Seriously?" I asked, slightly taken aback. "YES!!" So we ran off to the coomon room, where the good TV was. The short way there, the only non-expletive in my syddenly brimming mind was "[B][I]Can not be happening.[/I][/B]" Many of the others in the corridor were there already. (The others filtered in as they came back from school; the time gap made it early afternoon.) So I sat there, completely numb, seeking solace from people I mostly disliked, and we saw the second plane hit the second tower in real time. I said it out loud: "What if it falls?" Soon after, one tower was completely obscured by smoke - or so it seemed - and one of the others sensed it had happened. "Oh my god. It's GONE. It FELL." Sure enough, seconds later they showed footage of it going down. And from there on it's just a jumble of numbness, aside from calling my dad, who had flowen to Boston on a business trip that morning, and my mom, to see if they knew already. The next thing i actually remember is the next morning in school, saying to a classmate: "I just hope I never have to start telling a true story with: 'Once, there was a city.' " Seeing it is still unreal. I don't think it'll [I]ever[/I] become real. I saved all the newspapers from the following day I could. /Feliath Edit: [URL=http://www.angryflower.com/septem.gif]this[/URL] puts it best of anything I've seen so far. [/QUOTE]
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