Manhattan, September 10, 2001, photographed by a Canadian tourist, twenty-one years ago this week:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Manhattan, September 10, 2001, photographed by a Canadian tourist, twenty-one years ago this week:

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This is what was at the top of the news on the morning of September 11, 2001:

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[PJMcK]

1. That was quite a day!

I was at a breakfast meeting in midtown Manhattan when the first plane hit. As I walked back to my office, I could see the smoke from the building. When I got back, I turned on the TV to see the second plane hit the second building. I can't remember why but the office was closed that day yet I had a meeting with a British producer. We spent the day watching TV and went to the roof of the building where we watched the buildings collapse.

Later that day, there were bomb threats at the train stations but by 11:00 pm, the trains were running again and I was able to go home.

What a shocking day.

[Iwasthere]

2. So as you watched building 7 collapse what were your thoughts at that moment

Just curious. There were minimal fires in that building.

[PJMcK]

3. We couldn't see Building 7

We could only see the tops of the twin towers.

My thoughts that day were jumbled as my brain tried to comprehend what we were seeing. It was a stunning day. My reaction then and now is one of abject anger. Bush was warned yet he did nothing. Then, he and Cheney started wars with the wrong enemies and they used the so-called "war on terror" to steer government spending towards the companies that would grossly profit from our national tragedy. They botched everything.

Of course, Trump would have handled such a tragedy even worse. After all, his inaction with Covid resulted in far more deaths than 9/11.