09/10/2024
This is a sad time of year....I was in the World Trade Center countless times. I can close my eyes and see the lobbies, the elevators, the carpeting, the shops, the people. My last trip to the top was with a British tour group on Sunday Sept. 9, 2001 with a British tour group. We had Sunday brunch at Windows on the World restaurant on top of Tower One.
I only knew one person who survived...she said as she came down the emergency stairs 82 floors, the stairs were like waterfalls because the plumbing had come out of the walls. She remembered the 343 New York Firefighters who were going UP the stairs while workers were splashing their way DOWN.
Still hard to believe it's all gone and replaced by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum plus new office towers.
I knew several people there fairly well because of my tour business.
