re: #76 Sol Berdinowitz

Growing up in Chicago, we disliked the Twin Towers because they supplanted the Sears Tower as the tallest building in the world. Not that I was pleased to see them go down that way…

I was in Germany on 9/11/01. At first I heard some reports of a plane flying into the Pentagon (we were moving a piano at the time), I thought it was a sport plane like the Cessna pilot who tried to crash into the White House once…

Then we got a call from some panicked American friends to warn us that we were “at war”.

Actually, the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) was built after the World Trade Center and is taller than the Twin Towers were. The new 1 WTC, however, is taller still and claims the title of tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.