Dear All, I Survived Yesterday's Tragedy: E-Mails From New York

The Times Of London ^ | September 15, 2001 | Miscellaneous

[Lady In Blue]

More heartbreaking stories from regular New York people.

[Lady In Blue]

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[dutchess]

Lovely stories...real people. Big bump!

[nmh]

Good post!

These folks were soooo fortunate. It's a good thing they ignored the warning to stay put. I can't imagine WHY anyone wouldn't want people to evacuate the building just to be on the safe side. Many more would be saved had this moron not announced that.

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks,dutchess.It nearly brings me to tears.That one e-mail,which said that hands and feet were raining down on top of people's heads and that a number of people held hands as they jumped out of the tower to get away from being burned alive! It breaks your heart!

[Lady In Blue]

Can you believe that guy?! I bet he's lost his job and rightly so.Who knows how many more could have been saved!

[OldFriend]

Right about time you think there are no more tears and no more room for your heart to ache....

[VA Advogado]

I bet he's lost his job and rightly so.

If he followed his own advice on that day, he lost more than his job.

[Lady In Blue]

I didn't think about that! It's too bad.

[Lady In Blue]

I know! Knowing me,I'll lay in bed tonight picturing those peope linking hands and throwing themselves out the window! Isn't that horrible?!

[patriciaruth]

A sober bump. Thank you.

[OldFriend]

Sadly enough, the pictures are up on the net. I will not be buying any magazines with the pictures or printing off any pictures from the net.......I saw enough on TV to last me till the day I die.

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks for the bump.

[Lady In Blue]

I didn't realize pictures were on the net.Thank goodness,I haven't seen them.

[mommadooo3]

With an 'accident' that severe AND in such close proximity, it just begs the question....what nationality was the security guard/s that was herding the people BACK into the building?

[dixie sass]

I feel the same way. I am haunted by the the sides of the building with the vacant windows and debrie. The question goes through my mind constantly, where have I see this before? I'm don't have the words available to describe the horror that I felt. My aunt, who is 82, was in shock from the sights that she saw on the television. "This can't happen to my Country, it just can't", is the refrain that I have heard from her for the last week. My uncle, who was a Marine in WWII, acts as though nothing is wrong, as though we are crazy to be concerned. He is 82 also.

This week, I watched the whole world weep at what happened. Every Nation on earth was touched in one way or another. There weren't just Americans working and visiting in that area and building, there were people from all over the globe.

[Lady In Blue]

I don't know.

[OldFriend]

I am 64 yrs. old and remember wartime.....I remember people coming into our community with numbers tatooed on their arms.....I thought that horrow would never leave my mind. Then I saw Rwanda and realized we learned nothing. Now I have this feeling that President Bush has been 'chosen' to lead the world. I pray that we are worthy of being saved from ourselves.

[blackie]

Thanks for the ping.

[dixie sass]

So do I, Old Friend, so do I. GOD Bless America