email591.xml
Title
email591.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
email
Date Entered
2002-08-23
September 11 Email: Body
All, For those of you who know him, I have just heard back from Keith Potter. I have been worrying about him all day -- I knew that Keith takes the PATH train to the WTC every day. Keith e-mailed me and sent a photo -- it's an extraordinary photo and brought me to tears.
I'd spent all day so upset and then I just couldn't believe this photo. Today has been surreal. The U.S. compound here is on full-scale alert. U.S. military guards with big guns are patrolling the facility. All U.S. forces in the Balkans are also on their highest level of alert. We are not allowed to leave the U.S. office. The ambassador got us all together and took orders for take-out at a restaurant down the street.
I'm so glad that Keith is OK, but all I can think about are all my friends and colleagues who work in the Pentagon. So far I've heard nothing from my State Department friends who surely had one of the most terrifying days of their lives. I can't imagine. How ironic...I ended up being safer in Kosovo, than in DC.
New York City and Washington, DC are the two cities that mean the most to me. They are the cities I know the best and the cities that have changed me the most. I visit both the WTC and the Pentagon often.
Many of you have already heard my story about my last weekend in the USA. After a long night of clubbing, I convinced some friends to walk with me to a park in Jersey City overlooking downtown. It was almost dawn and we sat on a bench watching the colors of dawn illuminate the World Trade Center.
Eight days later the World Trade Center would be destroyed.
Today is incomprehensible.
I hope all of you are well, especially those in Manhattan and DC.
Love,
Joshua
I'd spent all day so upset and then I just couldn't believe this photo. Today has been surreal. The U.S. compound here is on full-scale alert. U.S. military guards with big guns are patrolling the facility. All U.S. forces in the Balkans are also on their highest level of alert. We are not allowed to leave the U.S. office. The ambassador got us all together and took orders for take-out at a restaurant down the street.
I'm so glad that Keith is OK, but all I can think about are all my friends and colleagues who work in the Pentagon. So far I've heard nothing from my State Department friends who surely had one of the most terrifying days of their lives. I can't imagine. How ironic...I ended up being safer in Kosovo, than in DC.
New York City and Washington, DC are the two cities that mean the most to me. They are the cities I know the best and the cities that have changed me the most. I visit both the WTC and the Pentagon often.
Many of you have already heard my story about my last weekend in the USA. After a long night of clubbing, I convinced some friends to walk with me to a park in Jersey City overlooking downtown. It was almost dawn and we sat on a bench watching the colors of dawn illuminate the World Trade Center.
Eight days later the World Trade Center would be destroyed.
Today is incomprehensible.
I hope all of you are well, especially those in Manhattan and DC.
Love,
Joshua
September 11 Email: Date
September 11, 2001
September 11 Email: Subject
My day and my connection
Collection
Citation
“email591.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 4, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/38736.