[EinNYC]

I remember it was a clear day, no precip. I remember that because the skies were filled with fluttering white entities. Gulls? When they started hitting my windshield on the way home, I was startled to see that they were pieces of Xerox paper from the offices torn asunder at the WTCs. There was also the blackest-of-black column of burning jet fuel rising across the horizon at a 45 degree angle. That was what I got to look at the whole drive home. The blackest of smoke (very symbolic, IMHO) and pseudo-gulls of Xerox paper.

I had severe respiratory problems for an entire year after 9/11, coughing up solid chunks of yellow mucus. When they finally razed the buildings, it was an ON/OFF switch was suddenly turned off, and the coughing up mucus stopped immediately. G-d knows what I had been inhaling for a year.

What is even more interesting is that the EPA denied any decline in air quality! According to them, the air was fine. Try telling that to my lungs, jerks.

[miss marmelstein]

Sorry to hear all your health-related troubles in the aftermath. Of course, we all know they lied about the air quality; they lied to the first responders as well. I, too, remember the black plume of smoke. I remember closing up all the windows on that warm night because of the terrible toxic odor. What a nightmare!

That week we went up to Sandy Hook point and watched the wretched remains smoke and smoke and smoke...

And who can forget the courageous Hillary Clinton who was concerned because at the very moment of impact, her daughter was jogging “around” the World Trade Center - as if you could actually do that. The lying pant suit didn’t even know the topography of the area.

Oh, and the restaurant that I had my wedding reception in was destroyed on 9/11.