25 years
I was in New York again the early part of this week. Walking back to my hotel in Tribeca after a dinner on Tuesday night I stopped, and looked up towards the night sky. The two beams of light shone across the sky like shooting stars.
The familiar feeling of tingles on the spine and sadness came across me. I didn’t sleep well that night.
25 years this morning. It does not seem plausible.
Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were at that moment of that day, it remains the deadliest single terrorism attack in human history.
I have written a lot about that day on these pages. My company occupied the top 8 floors of the north tower, and I had spent a fair bit of time in the building previously. I vividly remember staring out of the 105th floor window watching helicopters, small planes and clouds glide below us.
176 of my colleagues went to work that morning and never came home. I have also heard loads of stories over the years of friends and colleagues who were meant to be at their desk that morning but had decided randomly to do something else and were late to work. I also know many that made it down the 105 floors and are going strong today.
I think about them all today. Never forget.
I share your memories and your grief, CA. I went out to New York in the early 90s to seal an agreement for a licence to develop a World Trade Centre in Nottingham from the WTC organisation based high up in the Twin Towers. I had never experienced anything like the Twin Towers before. I made many contacts and friends on that trip, many of whom died on 9/11. I think of them often.
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I went out to New York to obtain approval to a proposed World Trade Centre in Nottingham from the WTC based in the twin towers in the mid 1990s. I remember my excitement at having to change lifts on Floor 70 to make it up to the restaurant at the top of the building. I made so many friends and acquaintances. On 9/11, I instinctively knew that so many of them had died. I share your
I remember it like it was yesterday I was flying out to Greece that evening for a family holiday I was tempted to get us of the plane
Watching it on the television was just unbelievable it was like watching a trailer for some sort of die hard film and back then mobile phones weren’t like they are now so thousands of people huddled around the televisions in the window of Debenhams up Eltham high street in disbelief
I was working up London my work van was parked up near Tavistock square on July 7th attacks when I got back to the area after I had finished my job it was frightening so god knows what it was like around the twin towers
Time should never forget those lost lives
Honoured forever
RIP
I forgot to mention the dedication of the emergency services that just rushed in to do their job which is to help people no matter what was happening around them hero’s all of them
They are truly heroes.
My wife and I visited ground zero a year after the tragedy and it impacted us a great deal.We visited the small church nearby were rescuers rested after their fantastic and fearless work.
The museum was emotional reading and looking at so many pictures of people who lost their lives.
God bless everyone who lost loved ones and to all the emergency people who gave everything they could at the time.