Posted on 11/08/2001 12:07:26 PM PST by Lucky2
Former first daughter writes first-person account of Sept. 11 for magazine The Associated Press 11/8/01 3:08 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who was 12 blocks away from the World Trade Center when it collapsed, has written an account of that day for Talk magazine.
"Before Sept. 11 I wouldn't have believed I had many innocences left," begins the four-page story in the December issue of the magazine. "I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ... Despite all that, I woke up that Tuesday morning feeling good about where I was in my life and happy about where I was going."
Clinton was near Union Square, at the apartment of longtime friend Nicole Davison, when the first hijacked airliner hit Tower One. Davison, who had left for work, called Clinton and told her to stay where she was. Like many Americans that day, Clinton turned on the television and watched as the second plane hit.
"I tried to call my mother, but after I said hello to her assistant the line went dead," Clinton wrote. She ventured outside to find a working telephone, and ended up walking downtown -- toward the towers.
"I remember very little about how I got so far downtown. ... I don't know whether I was on the corner or in the middle of the block," she wrote. "I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble."
The noise Clinton heard was the collapse of Tower Two.
Clinton later found Davison and another friend, and the three spent the day working their way uptown. Clinton wrote that a "somewhat irrational medley of thoughts" was running through her head, including concerns about President Bush's tax cut.
"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died," she wrote.
At one point, she stopped to pray and thank God that her mother was a senator representing New York and that the city was led by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani -- a leader Clinton wrote she "had been criticizing just the day before for some insensitivity or other."
When Clinton finally got through to her mother, who was in Washington, she burst into tears of relief. She later spoke with her father, who was in Australia.
"The next night I saw my mother, and early Thursday morning I saw my dad in Chappaqua," Clinton wrote. "It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my own skin."
Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton says she is frustrated to be away from America. She says she encounters anti-American sentiments every day.
"For more than 21 years I lived with the assumption that I was safe, with a sense of security so profound I didn't even know I had it," Clinton wrote. "Today I find myself shocked into a new awareness of how much I loved the country I grew up in."
Why should she be surprised? When she sprained her ankle and was on crutches leaving a photo-op, her mother, the Hillary, practically pushed her down a flight of stairs.
Yes, but of course that's what happens when you never go to class and your degree is just given as a political favor to your parents.
You know, when I started reading this thread, my dad phoned and I started reading to him some of the best posts, but when I got to this one, I just burst out laughing and couldn't talk for a minute. :-D
The tax cut comment was such a reach in this fantasy one can detect easily the not-so-subtle hand of Mommie-dearest in this drivel. Clumsy as all get-out, but the leftists don't care. They know the liberal media will print it and the sheeple will devour it and beg for more.
Chelsea is a hollow as her Mother...an empty shell of hot air.
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I seriously doubt he gave any thought to the tax cut.
I also wandered the streets of Manhattan that morning and not only did I not give a crap about tax cuts, I didn't care about much other than trying to avoid being killed, helping this guy who was literally in shock (he was in the first tower when it was hit and was wandering around aimlessly) and reaching my father.
I *still* haven't written out an account of what I saw and experienced that morning.
So, what happened with your son's girlfriend? Is she OK???
I can't find this word in my Websters third college edition. I can find innocencies. She is an Oxford student?.
>And why would she head TOWARDS DOWNTOWN to find a working payphone? Anybody with any brains would head the opposite direction.
Are they telling us that Chelsea Clinton does not have a cell phone ???? This story is an insult to anyone with half a working brain cell.
To be fair, cell phones stopped working sometime probably around 9:15 that morning. But I still wonder how Chelsea Einstein decided that it was a good idea to head *toward* the disaster site to find a phone, especially since so many people were running in the other direction -- and were screaming as they ran. Maybe she thought they were screaming at the sight of her? [smirk]
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