I e-mailed a friend and asked if he knew any of the victims since he had worked in NYC until last year. Here's his reply-
Yes, I know a few but it's hard to identify how many there are that I
knew because they haven't been heard from since. As the time grinds on,
you hear more stories about the Dad with a wife and 3-children that
hasn't called home -- the guys that were talking with their wives when
their cell phones went dead, no pun intended. Cantor, Fitzgerald who
employs around 800 people who were on the 105th floor of One World Trade
only 6, as I understand, got out alive. Some of these guys were on the
roof talking with their wives when the fucking tower collapsed.
Bill, the destruction is enormous and, obviously, very sudden. One and
Two World Center don't exist anymore -- Seven World Center collapsed
yesterday evening and today One Liberty Plaza, a 50-story building
across the street from WTC, fell in on itself. Whoever did this, as we
will find out who they are, did, in a perverse way, a masterful job of
coordinating their terrorism. The Trade Centers are gone -- the Pentagon
was attacked by a hijacked Boeing 757, the flight that crashed in
western Pennsylvania was, as I understand, had the White House as its
target until the passengers took over the pilot -- no doubt, some
raghead -- thus they crashed.
I was so choked up by this yesterday morning that when my daughter
called I had to stop and gather my breath so I could answer her
questions. I was worried about my nephew, who is OK, and so angered
about this attack that I could barely talk with Aly without breaking
into tears. I worked on the 60th floor of 2 WTC for 11-years. Anyhow,
for the past two nights, I been advocating Ed Koch's plan that I embrace
and everybody is giving me shit -- "Uncle Roy, you can't kill innocent
women and children. You can't just attack a country." I'm not talking
about WW III but, call me crazy, didn't some terrorists just attack this
country and killed innocent women, children and men? What are we
supposed to do, you liberal commie niece of mine? Send them flowers?
Ish -- put them in the air. |
