We left the World Trade Center, not going to the top because "the line is too long". We'll never say that again.
A personal contribution to a sad memory - a tastefull e-mail attachment, sent around. A color collage with a message.
Eleven Days after the attacks, college football resumed. Texas A&M was scheduled to play Oklahoma St. in an early-season face-off. But football wasn't on anyone's mind that day... On the evening of 9/11, on an internet discussion forum (Texags.com), the idea of a "Red, White, and Blue -out" effort was born. In those 11 days five students managed to print and sell (at $5 each) 80,000+ t-shirts, and depending on where you sat in the stadium for the game, determined what color you wore. They managed to do the impossible, and the result was stunning. The money they raised, went to several funds that had been established in New York. The five students were flown to New York shortly after this game (by an generous alumni cub), to deliver a check for $180,000. Another check will be sent in the next few months, representing shirts and posters that have been sold throughout the past year.
I was on vacation in July 2002 and was struck deeply by this image!
I took this photograph from a hill between the Route 27 Overpass and the Citgo Service Station on Joyce St., Arlington, VA at approximately 12:15 p.m. on September 11th. It was a horrible but compelling sight to behold.
This photograph was taken few hundred yards from the building around 12:30 p.m. on September 11th. Notice the dirt and asphalt raised up by the impact of the aircraft.
View of Manhattan skyline a week after September 11 from Brooklyn Highs
This is the last photograph I took that day around 12:45 p.m. or so. I lost track of time - everything was happening so quickly. On the right hand side of the gash in the building, you can see where the 5 floors have collapsed on one another.
I grew up in NJ and remember watching the frame of the WTC go up in the early 70's. I never visited it while living there, though, and moved to CA in '80. I went back to NJ when I got married in '82 and took my fiancee, her mother, and brother from Kansas on a quick NYC tour. We happened to pass the WTC and took the roof tour. I didn't have my camera but I got this brochure. I'd forgotten about until after 9/11/01. The caption is somewhat errie.