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…
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.
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…