“Post No Bills”
Originally uploaded by youngster.
This photo was taken in Sept, 2002 at the ground zero
Today is Monday, Sept 11th, 2006. Sept 11 became something else to the world since the event occured 5 years ago today. I was living in East Village & just arrived to JFK from Florida a night before 5 years ago. When I walked out to get my morning coffee on 2nd Avenue, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Huge smoke coming from twin towers… then, it happened.
I became speechless for days afterward. Actually I never wrote about that day – I was very tramatized to work or even to live for at least 3 months just like most of my friends in NYC. I felt like a zambie going to work everyday during that time. Reading anything related to that incident was just very painfufl for insiders like us New Yorkers who lived and remembered the tower for more than a decade. I think that’s when New Yorkers were opening up to each other more than before because we all shared that sad memories of 911.
After about one year, finally I had a courage to visit the ground zero. My friend and I decided one evening to walk around the area where used to be twin towers which seemed a lot different than it used to be. I have been up to the tower and I had a dinner at the window of world (restaurant on the top) – in another word, I have memories related to that place. You just can’t help but being drown by sorrow feelings whenever you are in the ground zero.
I managed take this one photo with my small digital camera. “Post No Bills” in ground zero area. It seems like a normal scaffolds with “Post No Bills” sign but, it’s to me all about 911. Since then, subconsciously, I’ve been avoiding to go to that area. I normally don’t leave 20 blocks away from my downtown neighborhood in NYC but, I know it was my subconscious mind did it.
My deepest condolences to lives lost 5 years ago here in New York…
“………”(moment of silence)
There is a tribute concert in Union Square Park now… my window is open at my office. 🙂
September 11, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Yes, it’s been a sad day, full of memories, most of which I would rather forget. At the time, I worked at the old StarMedia offices on Canal and Varick (about 20 blocks from the towers). On 09/11/01 I was rushing to a 9AM meeting (still tired because the day before, Jenny and I had been at the hospital for most of the day/night. She was 9 months pregnant and the intitial contractions had started) and was shocked at the sight of the gaping hole, the flames, the smoke, and the panic on people’s faces. I ran to my office in time to see plane #2 hit. We decided to evacuate when the first tower fell. The rest was a blur but on that walk across the Willamsburg bridge I just remember feeling so scared that more attacks would come and the possibility that I would never see my still unborn son.
Alex was born 8 days later, which was good becasue we had to snap out of our shock and learn to be parents in a scary new world. On the other hand, we had a distraction and never thought about the trauma of that day until years later. Peace!
October 23, 2009 at 6:01 am
For those of us who study television and thus watch a good bit of it, pilots seem to be almost self-explanatory in their function and structure. ,