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Ditto. My friend's husband worked for the PA and was at the WTC night and day for the first 3-4 weeks, working 12 hour shifts. He could barely eat or sleep; in all that time he didn't recover one whole body--just "chopped meat" as he put it.

I was on a job as a computer consultant to a brokerage house. A group of guys took one elevator down to get some coffee and bagels, etc. We entered the second one a minute later. Halfway down we heard the impact, but didnt know what it was. A bomb perhaps. LOUD. When we emerged in the Lobby we saw what had happened. We walked towards the North Tower. One of the brokers who had taken that first elevator had been hit by falling debris and killed instantly. It all happened that fast. What came in the next 20 minutes was a horror worse than any film I had ever seen. I could not sleep for many days. My apartment roof had a view of the Towers. For days I just sat up there and stared at the plume of smoke. To this day I have never visited Ground Zero. the day we have the dead body of Bin Laden I will go back down there.

I can't imagine the nightmares you must have from what you witnessed. It was bad enough just living outside NY and hearing the bagpipes everyweekend all during the fall of 2001, weekend after weekend of funerals for NYFD and NYPD. Bad enough to see the cars in the train station parking lot, those marked for ID purposes, the drivers never to return.

I teared up at your snippet of what it was like to have been there and I get angry at those who have forgotten or never cared to begin with. And like you I also will go to the site,but not until we get the proud architect of this human horror, the monster bin laden.

I will pray for you. People forget this was like a pebble in a pond--the rings of victims radiate outward and there are many of us who still suffer.

I’m with everyone else in wishing you well! You would NOT believe how many of us here in the lowly Texas Panhandle were absolutely SICKENED as we watched on TV that awful morning! Many of us never had much good to say about New Yorkers until we saw what a brave lot you all are! And those firemen…unbelievable! A contingent of Amarillo firemen went to NYC to help out, too.

One example (of many!) of someone desperate to do SOMETHING to show his support: A kid (no more than 18 or 19) somehow affixed a HUGE American flag to stand in the back of his black pickup truck…he literally drove all over Amarillo with that flag blowing straight back (going as fast as he dared!) from daylight until dark for days afterward! He was interviewed by the TV stations and when asked, all he would say is, “We want those Yankees to know we’re supporting them 150%!” This may or may not have been appreciated by “those Yankees”, but we here understood what he was saying!