This day makes me so sad. From my flickr blog last year:
9/11/01 was the most harrowing day of my life. I cannot begin to describe the horror or the stench that lingered in the city for weeks to follow. I had nightmares for a solid year. And I currently work in a building where I have full view of the pit.
During the ceremony this morning, I overlooked the Manhattan skyline and felt a sense of renewal. While the rest of the city had cloudy skies, a patch of sunlight kissed the World Trade Center. I think it’s time for a rebirth of one of the greatest cities in the world and look forward to the new development.
While I no longer have that view or live in the Financial District of Manhattan, I still think about the people we lost that day. My humble tribute:
I just stood there, paralyzed with memories from 2001. Despite my better judgment, I headed towards that big bush in front of me to get a better view. I kept hearing a rustling sound in the bush and something dart back and forth in my peripheral vision. After getting a few shots, several cat-sized rats scurried past my toes to the point I screamed and had to be picked up and carried out of the bushes.
Isn’t this photo creepy? It was a total accident on my exposure settings on my self-timer. This photo gave us chills when we saw it in the viewfinder.
Photography by: Amy Dunn
Photo assistant and white knight: Jon S.
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This post just took me back to 2004 when I spent a summer there doing an internship after my sophomore year of college. The question that still lingered in NY’ers minds at the time was “Where were you?”
I was in bed, hearing the news broadcast as my alarm, thinking it was all so surreal…Here’s to 9/11 and all those that suffered that day.
I know what you mean, I will never forget where I was that day when it happened. I was in college, first class of the day, and a young man in the room had a laptop. We had all heard about the first plane on the way to class, and wanted to tune in on his laptop to understand what was going on. Could it really be true? Little did we know that we were going to tune in just in time to see the second plane. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing. We thought that it was a replay of the first plane. We were so in shock that it happened again. The silence rang in our ears as we all looked at each other completely speechless. We were all feeling the same thing, and had no idea how to express it, all of the overwhelming emotions that were flooding us, and everyone else in the country at that very moment. Even thinking about it now, I am having a hard time finding words to true describe how I felt. All I could do was pray.
Thank you, Abby and Ken, for sharing your stories. I don’t think any of us will forget the impact that event had on our lives.
OMG the Memorial Photo you have is just stunning. Would love to hang it on my wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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