Reply #25: I watched it happen... [View All]

[iamahaingttta]

I live in Brooklyn, and was headed to the subway to go to work. When I got to the corner, people were standing around watching the first tower burn. In that moment, the second tower was hit. Naturally, the words that came out of my mouth were "Holy Fucking Shit!"

I turned around and practically ran the three blocks back to my apartment. In that time, these three thoughts went through my head:

1. This was the work of Islamic terrorists.
2. The Bush administration was complicit, and will use this as an excuse to invade Iraq.
3. Everything has just changed. It's a different world now.

Nothing in the intervening years has changed my position on any of those three notions.

I got back home and turned on the TV. My wife was home, sick in bed. She was nearly instantly cured! We watched the TV for a while, and then went back to the corner where we could see the buildings burning. A little while later, the first tower collapsed. Naturally, the first words out of my mouth were "Holy Fucking Shit, did you see that? It looked like what happens when they implode a building! It went straight down!" We then went back home and turned the TV on. Shortly afterwards, the second tower came down in the same fashion.

Nothing in the intervening years has changed my position that it was a controlled demolition.

Hey, but what do I know? I'm just a guy...