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I have posted this before, but I just keep hoping that someone who hasn't seen it before can help me. I'm not morbid or anything, I just feel like that day deeply affected me.
Every American should see this. I lived 30 miles NW of Ground Zero, and I specifically went to NYC to see the wreckage. It was totally surreal! 40 stories of rubble of twisted steel and concrete. My wife and I bought every magazine covering the attack; and these periodicals are prominently displayed in my den.
Upside::: My wife woke me up when Fox reported the first hit... I got out of the rack and grabbed a cuppa joe and watched in curiousity thinking what kinda of nimrod pilot would crash into the WTC...
She was getting ready to dash off to work as we both stared numbly at the screen as the 2nd jet crashed into the other tower... I hit the record button on the vcr... screaming at the tube "Accident my ass! This is WAR!!!" We both grabbed onto each other and tears of shock, anger, and an emotion I hadn't felt since engaging the enemy on the battlefield in Viet Nam...
The VCR was left recording for hours and hours, straight through, tape after tape...
The downside:::
Those tapes are in my summer house, which I won't go to for a few weeks to prepare for the move... I will find those tapes (I have literally thousands of them as recording movies has been a pet project for the past 15 years, of so), and I can be persuaded to dub you a copy of the first day of the War...
Freepmail me...
JD