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I played hooky from work on the afternoon of 9/10 with a friend of mine. We had a great lunch at L'Orto (off Maiden Lane) and then walked up to the mall under the WTC. Being total snobs (!), we mocked the kinda crappy stores that were there and poked fun at tourists. Then we went back to the office at Maiden Lane and Pearl St. (3 blks. SW of the site) and took off for home rather early.

My friend's husband had his first, last and only meeting in the South Tower on 9/11. He left voicemails to her, etc. She hasn't been the same.

I know the smell. I've seen the site. It coulda been me. Let's take care of the problem.

In December of 1999, my two sisters and I took a "girls only" trip to New York City. We left our hubbies and kids home and took the "trip of a lifetime"! We shopped lots and went sightseeing, of course.

One particular day, we took the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Then we took the tour of the World Trade Center. For a simple country girl from Oklahoma, it was nothing short of remarkable! We had a coke in Windows on the World, visited the gift shops (those tourists you laughed at!), and walked around the promenade on the roof(even though it was freezing cold!). I was stunned by the height of it! We were above the clouds! You could look DOWN and see airplanes! and helicopters! just flying around BELOW you, as you stood up there!

I think when those two buildings fell, aside (of course) from all the lives lost, the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that no one would experience that wonderful feeling of standing in the clouds again.