re: #2 lawhawk

I see it all around me - remembering what the old WTC PATH station used to look like, how the twin towers used to dominate the skyline and shopping in the concourse level stores.

Ouch, yeah, same here. Like you, I used to arrive at the WTC PATH station around 8:45 every morning as I worked for a tech company over off of Maiden Lane. Luckily, I’d been laid off earlier in the year thanks to the deflation of the dotcom bubble, so I escaped having to be in the area when the planes hit. I’m so thankful I was spared that horror.

Oddly enough, I was due to go into The City that afternoon to meet with a designer friend about a potential project. He’s the one who called me and told me to turn on the TV. Looking at the altered, empty skyline used to make me so furious.

I’ve never visited the official memorial either, nor do I have any intention of doing so. It’s just too much. I’ve been down in the WTC area several times, but never looked at ground zero except on TV. It’s… I just can’t. *sigh*