I was in college at the time. I woke up right after the second plane hit and seen my roommate sitting in a chair crying.
He was from Jamaica and his aunt was a diplomat or something like that. She was in the second tower.
Over the next couple weeks, there was tons of phone calls from dignitaries from all over the world.
I remember my wife waking me up and saying a plane just hit the towers, so I rolled over, looked at the TV just in time to see the other asshole flying into it. We went up on the rooftop and saw the buildings start to collapse. It was impossible to take in, it was so fuckin weird, like we were watching a movie or something. There were huge clouds of dust and this fuckin smell, I can't even descrie what it was like, burning garbage maybe. You know they had debris from the towers all the way up to Flatbush. That's how big that explosion was. My wife was freaking out trying to call everybody but the phones were dead. You could hear nothing but sirens in every direction. There were jets and helicopters flying overhead every 10 minutes. It was fuckin nuts.
We saw all the people on the TV coming over the bridge trying to escape Manhattan. I was earning a little extra cabbying at the time so I went down to there to help out. I started picking people up and getting them home. I was cramming as many people as I could in my cab. Driving all over then going back and doing it again. It was a good thing. Helping people out, listening to their stories, pulling up to their houses and seeing how relieved they were to get back home to their families. I still get calls or cards from a lot of those people around this time and it's always a surprise that they even remember me.
I wanted to make a 9/11 joke but I was afraid it wouldn't land, just like those planes on 9/11
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Having a general sense of reality also helps.
I was in 10th grade. My chemistry teacher stopped the class to make the announcement (must have been after the second plane hit). I didn't really grasp the reality of the situation, so I was making jokes about how Arnold Schwarzenegger would save the people (we had been talking about his upcoming movie, Collateral Damage). My teacher yelled at me, but my friends laughed.
I'm not proud of it, but I've gotta be one of the first people to have ever made a 9/11 joke.
Another big issue that even most conspiracy theorist don't know about are there were no floors in the world trade centers. No not literally no floors but very few floors in the building.
Most people who visited the twin towers were tourists and very few people actually worked in the building. At the time of it's construction New York had too much office space, so there was no need to add a bunch of floors, only a few floors for tourists were needed, and perhaps a few legitimate (maybe 30 or so) floors with legit floors with office space.
no, but they outsourced most of itDid America win that war yet?
I believe. I used to live in a 91 floor building. You could get out on the mid level floors and literally walk off the edge of the building as there was no fitout or windows
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