Comments on: Twenty Years Ago Today

By: aubrey

aubrey — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:08:13 +0000

A few years before 9/11, I had visited the Twin Towers, and as a structural engineer having a little knowledge of their construction principles, I was so impressed with the architecture and immensity of the buildings; the like of which I had never seen or experienced. On being told on that day that the television was now showing “that these building are falling down”. “No way!” I responded, “that’ll never happen, damaged yes, but not collapse”. How wrong I was; 100 per cent. How I was totally wrong.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:48:35 +0000

The terrible event sent out millions of little ripples and thank you for sharing yours. That day changed me forever, probably for the worse, but it has been impossible to accept the evil that existed that day.

By: Roy Grubb

Roy Grubb — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:17:09 +0000

This is really good writing.

By: Georgina Briody

Georgina Briody — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 07:40:15 +0000

Oh GA, I had no idea you were there that day and what might have been.

It just brought back memories of my friend and I flying to Boston six weeks after the twin towers attack on an almost empty plane. Boston and of course the USA were still in shock but we took a bus ride around the city and the driver and few passengers on board clapped us for not forgetting them and visiting their great city at that terrible time. I will always remember them.

This break was already planned before the attack and, within reason, we had no thought of cancelling.

By: Diana Birchall

Diana Birchall — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 04:14:56 +0000

Your account did not need pictures, it was so You Are There (title of an old American TV show about history), rivetingly and movingly well told. What a dramatic impact these events had upon your own life and fate, along with many others.

Because I’m the kind of person who always wants to know “And what happened next?”, I wonder if you would mind telling if your play ever did get produced, in England? I didn’t know you wrote plays and would like to know a little about them.

All best wishes, and thanks for this. Here’s You Are There, though thinking it over I don’t mean your story had the somewhat hilariously cheesy effects of the old show at all. I only meant…it really made me feel as if I was truly there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZOi0LRGYZY&t=240s

By: Wendy Cook

Wendy Cook — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 02:41:24 +0000

This is an extraordinary story; what a lot of tragedy in a small, terrible period of time. My condolences.

By: mlaiuppa

mlaiuppa — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 02:19:46 +0000

Wow. Just.

Wow.

By: Annoné Butler

Annoné Butler — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 21:18:13 +0000

This brought that day back to me so vividly. My brother was living and working in NYC. He had just stopped working for a firm called Risk Waters. It was an amicable break and he still had many friends and contacts there including his best friend. That morning, the employees of Risk Waters met in the Windows on the World Restaurant in the North Tower for a conference. They all died that day. They had asked my brother to join them; he had refused because he had another appointment. So, it’s simply luck that he was not there. Otherwise, the anniversary would be even harder to bear for me.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:45:49 +0000

I have no words….. Thank you for sharing yours

By: Stephen Baisden

Stephen Baisden — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:14:34 +0000

On the morning of 9/11/2001 three planes left Boston headed for the west coast. My two best friends were on one of those planes. Their plane had a stopover in Chicago and the other two were direct flights and carried a full load of fuel. When my friends reached Chicago they found out about the attack on the Trade Center. They safely disembarked and made it back home to Boston. The other two planes? One hit the second tower, the other the Pentagon. I’m happy to say, both my friends are alive and well today. I always think of them on 9/11 and wonder what I would have been like to not have them these past twenty years.