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September 11th, 2001
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9/11/01 - the morning of....
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Posted by: Charles Blevins from Jersey City
Monday June 24, 2002 @ 10:46 PDT
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i started my morning like every other. take the bus to journal square and take the path train to 14th street or wtc. that morning i figured i would take the train to world trade and catch the n to 14th ( a bit faster in the am). i got up a bit late so i was running behind. i remember so vividly looking around that morning and thinking how great it was to not work in the financial district near the hussle. as i got off the n at 14th street i looked at my watch and it was 8:30 on the nose, i then proceded to my office. my office is on the north end of union square and i face south. i sat down at my desk and opened my window. as i sat back down i heard this roar of a jet overhead. i am a private pilot so i knew it was big, fast and low by the sound. as fast as i was able to think that i saw a very large aircraft hit the first building and heard the boom. i knew immediately this was not an accident. no pilot would put an aircraft into a building near nyc, they would ditch in the drink. from my office we sat helpless and watched the second plane hit, people falling, both building fall, and of coarse the fear that more was to come. when i finally did muster up the courage to leave my office, i managed to get onto a boat leaving from chesea pier and ended up in weehawken. i had to walk home from weehawken. i was finally home around 5:00pm and just couldn't fathom what had happened. i try to put it out of my head, but every where i look, i am reminded. it has made me appreciate my life in ways i never knew possible. it made me realize just how important my freedom is. god bless america, god bless my lost friends, and god have mercy on the souls responsible because i don't believe the usa will.
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