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Originally posted by BeatFreak Here's an article from this week's Newsweek about five people who survived after being in the building when the planes hit. Five Who Survived When the hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, more than 1,100 people were trapped by wreckage and fire on the upper floors. Fewer than 20 managed to get out alive. Here are their stories

isnt it unbelievable that anybody who actually was in the WTC survived? i saw on tv the story of some firefighters...they were on the 5th level under tons of ruins and debris....but they were in a kind of cave...the could free theirselves and made their way through the ruins of the WTC...

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I remember that day so well...

I had just gotten home from class, and as usual, i threw on the History Channel. My roommate came through the door and told me to switch to the news, so I started flipping in that direction, on my way there, I saw the same image over, and over, and over again. I yelled through the wall, "What the fuck is going on?"

He told me a plane crashed into the WTC. I said bullshit, what really happened.

He got up, came back through the door, looked me straight in the eyes and said it again. my jaw dropped to the floor. Right then, he pointed at the TV and asked.. "wtf is that?! Holy shit!"

I turned around to see the television, and saw the second plane crashing into the towers.


When I heard the flight information, I immediately grew more scared. My father was supposed to be taking a flight from Dulles to San Francisco that day. After hearing one of the flights had originated in Dulles, I broke down. I called my father's office scared about what I might hear. His secretary answered the phone, heard me crying, and told me right away that his flight never took off. I was beyond relieved.

The feeling of surrealism set in. I couldn't believe this had happened. No one could. After seeing movies and the effects that they can produce, I almost felt as if I was witnessing a movie. The reality of the situation never sat right.

Thanksgiving came around, and I went home to see my family for the first time since 9/11. We decided that over winter break we would go to NYC, as I hoped it would help supply me with some closure to the situation and friends that I lost.

Arriving there, the first thing I noticed in the taxi ride over to the hotel was the skyline... only something was missing... the WTC. It just didn't look right. it wasn't the NYC that I remembered. The surveillance platform had opened earlier that week, so my family and I stood in line for 5 hours to view the wreckage. As bad as this sounds, it still didn't hit me. Most of the wreckage had been lifted, and it looked like any other construction site. If you hadn't known then WTC had once stood there, you wouldn't have thought anything was wrong. Only a few pieces of steel sticking out of the ground amid a large hole in the ground.

A week later, my father went back for business, and took me along. We stayed in a hotel 2 buildings away from where the Trade Center used to stand. One night after he got home from work, we were in the elevator and a security guard was talking to us. He offered to take us up to the roof of the hotel to look down on the site.

The perception from above completely changed the view of the site. No longer did it look like a construction site. It finally hit me... The WTC used to stand here... All the wreckage below that wasn't visible from the streetside platform stuck out.

Unfortunately, closure is still a long way off.

It will definately be a day that will forever be etched into my mind.

I was working in a technical call center @ Nortel in Brampton with about 70 others when it happened.
I ran over to one of the larger meeting rooms only to find it packed with people staring in disbelief.
What I saw on TV gave me the most gravest and sickest feeling in the pit of my stomach that I've ever felt.

A flash of thoughts went racing through my head.
What does this mean? Is more to come? Who could do such a thing?

Then I got a call from security about an hour later. My wife was here.
I walked over in a daze, thinking about what I was going to tell my wife to comfort her. What could I tell her? I was still trying to wrap my mind around what I was watching; my mind was blank.

Finally I got to the door and met her outside. She burst into tears and I held for what felt like eternity, crying. I had never felt so insignificant in my life. I felt anger, betrayal and sorrow all at the same time.

"Are we at war?" my wife asks.

"I'm not sure with who..." I replied, trailing off, searching for hope in my own voice.

And that was the scarist part for me. WHO???
Never has a question mark held me as captive as that moment.

The question on my mind now is, will it ever truely end?
Will I ever see a time where people will get along?
High hopes maybe, but I start with myself.
If I make a change even to one person's day, I've made a change and that's the best I can do.

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it sucked i was less than 30 miles away

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Earlier that morning, I was browsing one of my PS1 CD's directories looking for movies/XA Audio (with Game Enhancer 9, which can be bought at http://www.baysoftgames.com/ , if ur interested) and at around 09:00 (after plane 1 hit WTC), I was SHOCKED! I thought that it was some joke from Jay Leno or something or a movie but NO, IT WAS REAL. I flipped to every channel and that's all I saw. I grew EXTREMELY scared by the time the 2nd plane and the Pentagon were hit, ESPECIALLY after the SE Pittsburgh place crash! Remember: I'm in Philadelphia, which is just a 2 hour drive from NYC, and a 5 hour drive from DC and Pittsburgh. I thought that before the day was over SOMETHING was going to happen to us. After all, being SO close to all this sends chills down your spine! After the attacks, I didn't sleep for a few DAYS and I was wondering if any of my family's friends who lived in NYC was working at the WTC. Something that REALLY angered me at that point was when the Palistinians were shouting "ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR!" (God is Great) Who could say such a thing after that happens? [I'll post more later...]

i was there....on West Broadway and Canal Street with a girl friend of mine and watched as those towers collapsed....i only 1000 yards from the WTC....

but i am doen talking about on the forums...to hard for me....i try and defend my country and my friends lives who where lost that day only to be told my anger and reasons for revenge are nonsense.

but if you where there u would feel like i do....it was alot different right there then seeing it on the news...ALOT DIFFERENT>..

those memories will haunt me forever...i still get nightmares and anxiety after a year...and i can still close my eyes and see the towers falling and still smell that weird smell that was in the air...

be greatful u werent down there....

but like i said i will not continue to talk about here...not worth it...

sorry

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By the time I woke up, everything was pretty much over with. When I finally woke up, my roommate, who is from Pakistan, semi-cheerfully informed me of what had happened. I had already slept through my classes, so, not knowing wtf he was talking about, I went back to sleep and woke up at 8:00 PM ish at which point I finally realized what had actually occurred. Needless to say, I was stunned.

Maybe I'm the only person who feels this way, but a year later, I think it's time to move on. It's kind of one of those situations where you kind of put something someone has done/is doing out of your mind because you don't want to encourage them by giving them the attention they crave. This may seem harsh to the people who died and their loved ones, but a lot more than 3000 people died that same day from totally unrelated causes and I feel like all those people's lives are being treated like not as big of a loss as the people who diead at the WTC, which cannot be rationally justified.

I'm not saying we should forget them or what happened, but we should do everything exactly as we we would do if it never happened, because if we don't, then the terrorists have truly accomplished their mission.

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On that day I was at school. I was having a butt outside my school. The sky was clear and the sun was shining. One of my friends came up to me and told me that a plane just hit the WTC. I ignored him at first thinking it was a lame joke. Then i noticed how other people were talking about it. I went inside and I saw a class with a tv watchin the news. I stepped in the room just as the south tower was hit. My heart dropped to floor along with my cellphone. All I could think about was my aunt that worked at the North tower along with several friends I knew that worked in the south tower on the 105th floor. When the towers came down I was about to cry wondering if my aunt got out safely. I tried desperately to call her in nyc but all the cell nets down there were down. Several hours later I get news that she made it out safely just as the north tower fell. Later that night I asked my aunt if she knew where our friends were that worked there, and all she could say was she didn't know. I later found out that 3 of them didn't make it out. All I could think about was how those arab ass mofo's could do something so fuked up! I hate to say but I was glad when the US started bombing all the caves in afghanistan. Every time I see footage of the towers falling, my eyes start to water and I change the channal.

I'm planning on going to nyc on sept 11 to pay my respects to my friends I lost and all the people that perished on that day one year ago.

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I still get chills each time I hear stories of what happened. Adding to this is the fact that every year I'll be reminded of this tragedy because it's my birthday. Why... oh why... does it have to be sept 11.

i was in the lakes in england on a school trip, where you go climbing connoeing, kayaking, and there was a sorta asembally, and the leder called us in, and he showed us the photo'z on the news papaer (it was the day after i got 2 hear about it) it was not much of a shock, but later on watching it on tv, it just hit me so hard, it was unbelivable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was home, doing nothing special, and my dad calls me and tells me to put on CNN, and I see the other plane crash into the WTC. If I remember right, he was somewhere in the US at that time.. At least he was somewhere abroad, not in Finland.

About 3 months before it happened, I was in NY at the JFK airport, and I have 1 or 2 pics of me sitting there, and you see the twin towers in the horizon..

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