[CH] so much death here....World Trade Center,,,,
Karen Stober (kstober@us.ibm.com)
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:20:08 -0400
My friend is OK. My sister has friends who are dead. She works with many
AON employees who were in their offices at the Tower. They are all dead.
My father lost people he worked with at a construction company on the
floor the plane slammed into. ALL DEAD. There are hundreds of cars from
people parked at local train stations and park & ride lots. People who
went to work at the WTC and will never come home. All they are finding
are thousands of body parts. New York City ordered 6000 body bags as of
5AM this morning.
All those children, pets, siblings, families, all who will never see loved
ones come home......Everyone I know has suffered a personal tragedy from
this.
I have a friend who lives in Glenshaw, PA. He saw the crash site of the
Pittsburgh (White House) bound plane. Horrific.
I have a 60K scan of a photo I took of the sad remains of the NYC Skyline
at 11AM Tuesday morning. Email me if you want to me to send it.
I was shocked to see the smoke still billowing from lower Manhattan
yesterday. I still can't believe the lovely Winter Garden Theater where I
saw Bob Fripp last November is gone forever. And those sparkling Towers I
made sure to look at Saturday evening (I usually don't bother but
something told me to do it) on the way home from the Yes concert are gone.
I haven't seen the NYC skyline dominated by the Empire State Building
since I was a toddler. My memories go back past the building of the
Verrazano Bridge.
There is a layer of brown soot and terrible grief and mourning in the air
here. Building 5 of the WTC collapsed yesterday. I am less than an hour
from the crime scene. The smoke was still billowing from lower Manhattan
as I drove to work this morning over the crest of the First Watchung
Mountain.....
Karen E. Stober