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<blockquote data-quote="darkdancer" data-source="post: 362772" data-attributes="member: 1346"><p>I had just moved from New York City to a new job in Japan about a month before. I actually had already gone to bed (it happened about 10pm our time - I was coming down with a cold or something). The next morning I was awoken by a Japanese friend who was trying to ask me if my family is ok. Surprised, I said of course until I began to understand through her so so English and my awful Japanese that something catastrophic had happened back home ... something impossible involving maybe bombs, planes, the twin towers .... </p><p></p><p>Most of my family lives in and around New York - a brother in Brooklyn, sister in New Jersey, another sister and my parents and my husband's entire family in Westchester ... needless to say, I had a lot of trouble getting through on the telephone, and all I had for information while I was trying to get through was a television in a language I could barely (with subtitles) understand and a situation that I couldn't understand at all. </p><p></p><p>I finally got through to the one sister in northern Westchester: yes there were hijacked planes - they're all accounted for ... only four and they're all gone .... no, the twin towers are no longer there ... yes, really, they are gone.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly I became a representative for my country when I had never really felt especially American before (more sort of world citizen and all that). Everywhere my friends and coworkers wanted an immediate response to something I was still too shocked to respond to.</p><p></p><p>My sister's kids in NJ were locked in their schools with their classmates, watching on tv the towers falling, over and over again. Just like watching Armageddon, my nephew said, but more. My sister tried to drive from one side of her town to the other, to get home, and ended up getting onto the Jersey turnpike, eventually getting stuck for hours directly across from the smoke in lower Manhattan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkdancer, post: 362772, member: 1346"] I had just moved from New York City to a new job in Japan about a month before. I actually had already gone to bed (it happened about 10pm our time - I was coming down with a cold or something). The next morning I was awoken by a Japanese friend who was trying to ask me if my family is ok. Surprised, I said of course until I began to understand through her so so English and my awful Japanese that something catastrophic had happened back home ... something impossible involving maybe bombs, planes, the twin towers .... Most of my family lives in and around New York - a brother in Brooklyn, sister in New Jersey, another sister and my parents and my husband's entire family in Westchester ... needless to say, I had a lot of trouble getting through on the telephone, and all I had for information while I was trying to get through was a television in a language I could barely (with subtitles) understand and a situation that I couldn't understand at all. I finally got through to the one sister in northern Westchester: yes there were hijacked planes - they're all accounted for ... only four and they're all gone .... no, the twin towers are no longer there ... yes, really, they are gone. Suddenly I became a representative for my country when I had never really felt especially American before (more sort of world citizen and all that). Everywhere my friends and coworkers wanted an immediate response to something I was still too shocked to respond to. My sister's kids in NJ were locked in their schools with their classmates, watching on tv the towers falling, over and over again. Just like watching Armageddon, my nephew said, but more. My sister tried to drive from one side of her town to the other, to get home, and ended up getting onto the Jersey turnpike, eventually getting stuck for hours directly across from the smoke in lower Manhattan. [/QUOTE]
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