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 a cruel day
Posted by: Mary Bukowski from Birmingham, AL
Thursday January 09, 2003 @ 09:55 PST

the morn. of 9/11/01 i was in las vegas in an aa loungeroom at a place called the t.i.e. club (take it easy), and from what i saw on the tv screen the perpetrators definitely did not take it easy. whoever escaped that awful nyc wtc attack sure had lady luck on their side. i've recently became interested in reading books about that day and have read "love greg and lauren" (a husband's daily emailing accounting of his wife's recovery from 82.5% of her body being burned). then i read fdnyc battallion commander richard picciotto's book "last man down" about his incredible accounting of his experiences that day and his eventual survival from being in the building when tower 1 collapsed. it's a story of miracles and luck. presently i'm reading a book by a ny times reporter (his name escapes me at the moment) - it's called "september 11: an oral history." i'm only partly into the book but there are various stories from ordinary people about their experiences that day, mostly on wtc survivors. every book has been fascinating, sickening, appalling, anxiety-producing and all kinds of up and down emotions. there definitely are no dull moments in the books. i want to keep reading books on 9-11 - i'm not completely sure why, but it's probably a combination of reasons - to read inspiring stories, to not dwell on my own problems (how miniscule they appear to be), to try to understand the nonunderstandable.