some interesting info on the WTC..

[freakygirl]

i found this webpage.. i thought maybe others would be as interested as i am.. maybe not.. i don't know.. but i'm going to save this page for future reference.. maybe take the time and print it out for my kids..
http://architecture.about.com/libra...=dpile&terms=+New++York++World++Trade++Center

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I used to buy theatre tickets in the lobby of the Trade Center. I'd take the train to the Towers whenever visiting downtown. Every summer I'd perform on an enormous stage erected at the foot of both towers, along with a huge assortment of other comics and musicians. I've been to the top many times. My wife left a tuxedo and clues around my apartment one night which led me to a romantic dinner with her at Windows on the World. I watched the thing being built. I'm going to miss it, greatly.

I just found out that a friend lost his cousin in the building. Many other friends of mine back in the city are telling me that they "haven't heard" one way or the other yet about other family members and friends.

 

[freakygirl]

DCL, it was always a dream of mine to travel to NY.. no idea why, but i wanted to see those buildings. I have a huge picture of the NY skyline on my wall, it will never look like that again. Those 2 big buildings are gone forever.

You are lucky to have some fond memories.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The funny thing is, as much I loved the Towers, they always seemed to me to not be part of "classic New York", if you know what I mean. There was the Empire State and the Chrysler Building and the Woolworth Building and the Flat-Iron building, etc. The World Trade Center, while it was being built, seemed like an upstart nephew, thrusting up, and insisiting the skyline now belonged to it. I still tend to think of New York as radiating from the Empire State Building.

And now it actually does again.

Unbelievable.

I find myself "remembering" this fact every couple of hours or so. Suddenly the images of the planes ripping into the buildings, and, then, unbelievable, their collapsing to the ground, comes back to me, and it's like, "Oh, yeah. That happened. Holy God."

I'm a little better today. I was able to get out and do things. But I'm overwhelmed by the knowledge of what's coming. I truly am.

 

[freakygirl]

i completly understand what you are saying.. i don't know what it's like to be where you are.. and to have gone thru what you have gone thru.. i'm a sheltered person.. i live in the house i was born in and grew up in..i live in a small town in the upper corner of Washington state... not much happens here, i freaked completly when we had a small earthquake.. nothing that i have gone thru compares to what you have lived thru.. i'm praying for everyone in NY, Washington and Pennsylvania. May God be with you and your family, DCL. Remember you are in my prayers.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Thank you. Though I should tell you that, though I was born in Manahttan, lived in Manhattan, met all my friends in Manhattan, began my career in Manhattan, and will always feel that I'm a citizen of Manhattan more than any other city in the world, I am currently not in Manhattan.

As I watched the Towers crumble I did feel that I was not 3000 miles away, but that I was in the Village looking down Seventh Avenue South. I'm glad that my family and I are not there, but the distance hasn't overly buffered me from the trauma I felt yesterday.

And if I can feel what I felt yesterday from the sunny desert of California, I can't remotely imagine what it felt like to be below 14th street yesterday.

 

[freakygirl]

ooopss.. if i would have read where you were from, i would have seen that.. but still... i've never been there.. so i have no idea what NY was BEFORE this happened.. it is/was your home.. i know it has to be horrible to go thru something like that..