Sunday, August 06, 2006

Where were you when the WTC was attacked?

I had woken up and put on a New Jersey rock and roll station, unusual in the Bronx, NY I often listen to WFUV at Fordham University. The station had someone on their cell phone calling in they had just seen a plane crashing into one of the WTC towers. I put the TV on. I had worked for a company on the 90-95 floors, that had left though, Envirosphere, a division of Ebasco, a Texas power plant designer and builder. The division was doing the archaeological clearance of Fort Drum, NY for the permanent relocation of the US Army 10th Mountain Division from Camp Hale, Colorado back in 1984 or so. When I was there they were still in Jeeps, Huey's, old tanks, F-4's and A-10's, now in Blackhawks(?), Humvees, Bradleys(?) and Abrams tanks, which Fort Drum was once used primarily for tank stationary firing exercise before the mobile training at Fort Erwin in the deserts of California, against then, our troops as Russians which as said always won. The property once had 10,000 people working in dairy and foundries. My girlfriend worked there in their office and were sent home one day as the sway in the wind was causing expected problems in the elevator shafts. Noticeably absent then, my neighbor a building inspector, were the lights in the stairwells, not built to NYC Building Code. Added: It's interesting to recount that the orginal planned site for what became the World Trade Center, was in the current neighborhood of the South Street Seaport Historic District, the preferred location. Posted to Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better

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