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Notes from 9/11/01
Brooklyn, NY - GGP - Friday, December 23rd, 2005 : goo
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This morning I was doing some pre-New Year cleaning and came upon some notes I took while watching the local TV network news reports on September 11, 2001 and the during the next day. I thought this would be as a good a place as any to share these strange memory-fragments. The local reporters were clearly in over their heads--who wasn't?--and here are some of the things they said on air:
"When you think of all the bad things that have happened in our lives, this is the worst."
"...reporting live...for the time being."
In reference to bomb threats @ the empire state building followed the WTC attack, a reporter discussed the cops bringing bomb-sniffing dogs into the building and used the following phrases:
"dog-sniffing animals"
"a dog from the Empire State Building went up. The dog sat down."
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"I'm sorry, but it looks like Milwaukee."
"New York will be here forever.
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Peter: 23rd Dec 2005 - 15:28 GMT
wow. i also took notes that morning... notes on what i was thinking, feeling, seeing. i have them still in hard-copy, tucked into a journal i rarely look at. my notes are troubling to read, and i only have once or twice since i wrote them.
GGP: 23rd Dec 2005 - 15:51 GMT
I wrote a lot more before 9/11 than I have since. That experience really sucked something right out of me. I think this may be the only "writing" or note-taking I did during that time, though I'm not sure. I think I wrote some haiku. Much remains a blur. All but one of the stations on my non-cable TV went out when the towers fell, so I was stuck with very mediocre coverage and some of it was so absurd--I remember one reporter quoting rather extensively from some apocalyptic biblical text (much to my horror), and another reporter in front of the empire state building nearly being side-swiped by a cab while reporting live from that location. it was definitely one of those times in life when you and your world leap into full-time surrealism with its attendant horrors and inanities. I'm not sure I've fully pulled out of that state since. America certainly hasn't.
Mitch Waxman: 24th Dec 2005 - 15:38 GMT
Check out the wayback machine ( http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ) which is a running archive of the internet. A lot of 911 blogging and net writing is archived here.
jack: 29th Dec 2005 - 19:46 GMT
life can be cruel. 9/11 was a horror that everyone saw at the same time on their tv's. innocent people died just as innocent people are dying every day around the world due to terrorists. look at rawanda. will it stop? i doubt it. your life should exemplify the lives that were lost. we should live better in honor of them.
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