The one of the poor soul falling is especially bothersome, it’s still in my mind like it was yesterday, I will never forget it, we lived in Seattle at the time and we got a phone call to jump up and turn on CNN, I turned on FoxNews of course, 2 minutes or so after turning on the TV the 2nd plane flew into the other tower, I was shocked, then, when the first tower collapsed I looked at my wife and so “Oh my God, it’s just collapsed” the news reporters kept saying there’s been another explosion, but they were wrong, I could see the thing go straight down.
Afterwards, I remember family members and loved ones wandering around looking at boards and things, posting notes “Have you seen so and so ...” and all that, it’s still all right that, fresh as can be.
Frankly, I wish FoxNews would broadcast those first 4 hours this Saturday so all can see it and we never forget.
One of the jumpers landed on that fire captain that died....bodies were dropping out of the sky all around....
I was stationed in Kenai, Alaska (Coast Guard) then. I usually got up, showered and went to work without turning on the boob tube. For some reason, that morning I turned on FNC (sounds like about the same time you did) and saw a smoke cloud over what was obviously NYC (stationed at Governors Island earlier in my career). I paused to see what the heck was going on - fire?, subway accident?. Had just enough time to hear a plane had flown into one of the WTC towers and try to figure out what happened when the second tower was hit. Stunned, I watched for a while and ended up being late for work that day. Needless to say, the rest of my career was very different from that point on...