Posted by akc on September 11, 2001, at 14:59:20
In reply to Got some news, posted by Adam on September 11, 2001, at 14:45:17
I'm glad you are getting some good news. I hope that you will be one of the lucky ones and all of your loved ones will be okay -- well physically ok -- the emotional damage will be around for sometime.
> Got some news from my g.f. Those close to the crashes are accounted for. Through another person (so I'm getting this like third or fourth-hand) there is an eyewitness account of the second crash, the 767, I guess. From what I can gather, it happend so fast one could hardly register the presence of the plane. It sped like a bolt into the side of the building, fire and debris spewing out the other side. I can't even imagine. One guy, working just a few blocks away, saw the first tower collapse before he got the hell out of there. He was actually hit bit bits of stuff flying through the air, and covered with dust. Screaming, terrified people running this way and that (him included)...I just can't even imagine. Just unbelievable. But all who we know are safe, as far as we can tell.
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> I got off the phone with one of my good friends from college, who works in a law firm in DC. They scrambled to the roof, or ran to some other vantage point. He said it looked like all of Alexandria and surroundings was on fire, like a volcano had erupted just across the Potomac. He's going immediately to an ad hoc clinic to donate blood. His voice was shaking. He knows people over there, and has no idea of their condition. I just can't believe it.
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