Fairly boring commentary from an oversensitive, emotionally demanding computer nerd (with a not-so brand-new 4-year-old, and two cats)
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October 30, 2002
9/11
A friend of mine wrote about some newly developed photos from Sept. 12, 2001. I was not in NYC that day but just looking at fairly ordinary photos from then (if anything from that day can be called ordinary) I know that anything anybody dreams up for a Halloween horror movie could not possibly match the fear of not knowing whether my friends were dead or alive, even if I was 250 miles away.
For a while I worked in the Woolworth building (near City Hall) and came through the WTC PATH station in my commute. The Woolworth building used to be dwarfed by the twin towers but now it is the main landmark in lower Manhattan - seeing this new skyline, even casually in pictures, is still very unsettling to me.
It is pretty hard to write anything about this topic that hasn't been said a thousand times. But it is also hard to not write about it. Someone else's story is still not quite your story.
Posted by markj at October 30, 2002 07:47 PM
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