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Someone just asked us this:

Where were you on 9/11/01?

My reply:

I was just about at the foot of the first one when the first plane hit, coming out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel on my bus.

All the traffic came to  a total halt, and after several minutes the bus was able to pull over and let us out.

I started walking down toward Bowling Green to get a train uptown, in the opposite direction from the chaos on the ground and praying for my friends who worked there, who always complained that they worked a 45 min. lunch hour, and never had enough time to get down the elevators or stairs because it always took so long.

I also had an uneasy feeling it was a terrorist incident, I had lived in Belfast for years and survived 7 bombings and something felt ‘off’.

As I was walking, the second plane came from the south, screaming over my head, banked to the left, and crashed into the second tower.

Everyone freaked and it was like a hollywood film, people steeplechasing over park benches to run away from the debris. By that time, the people in the first tower had already started to jump.

A man grabbed me and said “My god, my sister works in there,” and started to run down the street toward the towers.

I got to the train station, and the policemen herded us on the southbound train, telling us not to go to work, that Manhattan would have to be shut down.

I got on the train back to brooklyn changed trains at pacific st and found a pay phone that worked. I phoned my stepdad to tell him i was all right, and to tell my mother.

He was like, “What the hell are you talking about, are you crazy?”

I told him what I had seen, that I had just come from there, and he ran to the TV and turned it on and said oh my god

Meanwhile everyone behind me trying to use the phone because they had stpped them running into the city overheard what I had said, and it was pandamonium.

The transit dept announcement service was telling lies about repairs in the tunnel from brooklyn to Manhattan, which of course did not explain why the trains were not going over the bridge. I just told everyone to go home, that it was too dangerous to go into the city. I told them all I had seen, then continued to head home.

I got to my station, and called my boss. He was trapped on 125th st in the metro north train, i told him what had happened, same thing, “what are you, crazy?” all the people on the train heard him and he put me on speaker phone, then someone got an internet radio signal, and then thier train got turned around and headed north back out of the city.

I was walking home when a woman ran out of her front door screaming ‘he’s all right, he’s all right!”

apparently her husband worked in the twin towers, and had been in the first attack years before and never thought to call her. so i congratulated her and told her i had just been there and seen it.

We were talking when all of a sudden she looked over my shoulder and said ‘Oh my god,” as we watched Tower 2 crumple and fall.

It is not anything I will ever forget, and the sound of a jet engine still sets me off after what I saw that day.

It was a terrible loss for all the families, the city, the world.  The only thing I tell peopleis as bad as it WAS, it could have been SO much worse

a-local elections that morning, a lot of people not at their desks because they had gone to vote

b-first day of school, a lot of people not at their desks because they had gone to take their kids

Thank god for that!

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