[geeks] God, I've never seen anything like it...
Tugrul Galatali
geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Sep 11 16:08:51 CDT 2001
I got up at 9:30 this morning to shower and scramble out of my house
for a hour commute to NYU for 11AM classes. My friend called me and told me to
scrap any plans of going to school. All the TV channels in NYC but CBS and some
local air channels (I don't have cable... which I oddly ordered last night) are
gone. The bloody tower just collapsed as I was trying to swallow what I was
seeing. I ran down to my mom's store, told her I didn't head into the city, and
then I started biking around Queens looking for places overlooking the southern
Manhattan skyline.
For a person that went to high school a couple of blocks from the WTC,
and spent much time in the mall underneath them, jesus. And the summers I spent
playing ultimate in their shadow. And from NYU, it will be odd not to see
anything when looking down West Broadway, which went down a straight line to
between the towers.
gah, don't know what to say. Thousands of people in each tower.
I just hope they are rebuilt. I will not settle for a stupid memorial,
the skyline must be restored. Its like loosing your front two teeth. A mark of
a proud city.
I will try to bike down to the Brooklyn coast once I get ahold of a
map and rest from this mornings trip.
Tugrul Galatali
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