story6369.xml
Title
story6369.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-12
911DA Story: Story
I can/could see the towers from the offices where I work. Among the many reactions from the horror of watching unable to prevent harm to running downtown to help......the following hit me after the 1st tower collapsed:
When I was about 8 my uncle was part of the plumbling contractors working on the construction of the World Trade Towers. One tower was built and the 2nd was about 50 stories. I was taken to the site to see these incredible buildings. I remember standing atop the incompleted building (job sites have certainly changed) staring at the whole world and being amazed looking endlessly up to see the top of the completed building.
When I returned to my office after the evacuation of downtown and stared across to the site of just one tower standing....all I could think of was the loss, loss of people, loss of the dream, loss of the wonder, and innocence of a childhood memory
When I was about 8 my uncle was part of the plumbling contractors working on the construction of the World Trade Towers. One tower was built and the 2nd was about 50 stories. I was taken to the site to see these incredible buildings. I remember standing atop the incompleted building (job sites have certainly changed) staring at the whole world and being amazed looking endlessly up to see the top of the completed building.
When I returned to my office after the evacuation of downtown and stared across to the site of just one tower standing....all I could think of was the loss, loss of people, loss of the dream, loss of the wonder, and innocence of a childhood memory
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Citation
“story6369.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed January 7, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/8853.