Linda, are you ok??????

[Johnny Trains]

I know you are a New Yorker. I hope you are ok.
It's terrible.
Just terrible.
John
God Bless America

[fitz]

Yeah, Lindalace, please check in and let us know you are all right. :confused:

[Johnny Trains]

This is very upsetting.
I pray you are ok Linda.
You were a "neighbor" so to speak.
I wait to hear from you.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
FLY YOUR FLAGS!
John

[Lindalace9]

Good Morning everyone.....and thank you for your concern.
I was not in Manhattan on Tuesday morning so
I was never in any danger. In an effort to secure
NYC and ward off any further terror attacks all
the bridges and tunnels were closed. Pedestrians were allowed to leave but only essential people
were allowed to enter. From 14th St south the
area was closed. Then on Wednesday it was opened
down to Canal Street. The Mayor has been urging everyone to try to resume normal activities, so
on Friday evening I ventured into Manhattan to have dinner. As I drove across the Queensboro Bridge I glanced toward downtown Manhattan.....
and the absence of those two buildings gave me
a slight shock. I always thought that The World Trade Center twin towers was an ugly blight on the New York skyline.....cheap and glitzy....
but we get used to anything and their absence
leaves one with a sick feeling, particularly
when one considers the great number of people
who are still buried in the rubble.
As a native New Yorker whose ancestors go
way back in this City, I feel hurt and anger about
this tragedy. At the same time I feel great pride in how my fellow New Yorkers have conducted themselves with great charity and love. And it goes far beyond......policemen from California
coming to volunteer. There were iron workers from
Texas, firemen from Ohio.....in fact, there were
300 fireman lost, so we have had aid from firemen
from all parts of the Country. Several firemen
from Chicago were working as volunteers and were
asked where they were going to stay. They answered
that they didn't know. Many volunteers just slept in the street near the disaster site. Flags fly everywhere and the spirit of everyone is awesome.
In a way I feel sorry for these terrorists.
They have no clue to what freedom and peace mean.
Their small minds are enslaved to poisonous ideals
and though it may take a while, they will be made
to pay. How wonderful to be an American!

[Telegrapher]

Linda
It is so good to hear from you. We were all worried. As the saying goes, maybe we lost a battle but we will win the war. This is the American way.

[Johnny Trains]

God Bless America.

[Station Master]

Great to know one of our members made it. My cousins who live just blocks from the scene checked in three days later.

[Johnny Trains]

Too many people I know are missing someone.
My wife's friend from her previous job has lost her son.
My friend at work is missing his sister-in-law, the only female cop missing. It goes on and on too......
My two local firehouses have been just destroyed. In one, they lost 9 men. The other, 11.
My daughter's boyfriend's mom is a cop. She just happened to be down there working overtime.
She was told to got to the 50th floor to help people. She was nearly trampled to death in the stairs. Her arm was broken. She ran like hell and just got out in time to relate this story.
I can't imagine.
I saw the explosion seconds after the 1st plane hit. The hole in the North Tower was unreal. The flames were unreal.
I went to the street staring in disbelief when the second plane hit. God........................
When we were finally told to evacuate our building, the 1st tower had fallen. It was chaos in front of my building and we were really on the edge of the worst of it. One or two blocks below us was hell on earth.
I had gotten into my office van on Frankfort St.and the second tower fell. I was facing that direction. It was a total white out. Not as black as midnight at ground zero, but just..............
I was able to escape after abandoning my City van and by jumping into my friend's truck who was with me. He was determined to get out of there by car. It was all of hell on earth.
We made some wrong way turns by Police Plaza and got onto the FDR Drive, along with thousands of people walking onto it. We took two other people with us. One was a WTC guard who had been injured early on and was already stitched up and on crutches running (on crutches) north from Downtown Beekman Hospital to escape the dust storm.
Man, I am still haunted every minute by all of this.
God Bless America.
Let us prevail over evil.
John
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