Subject: Re: New York bombing
From: Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 08:03:49 GMT
For me this event seems most significant in the void it created. Living
in Brooklyn you often can see parts of the Manhattan skyline and don't
even notice. Tuesday I was about to get on the train when I turned
around to see what everyone else was looking at. The top half of the
trade center that I'd never really noticed were so visible from that
point was on fire. The second plane had just hit, according to a man
nearby. I ran home and woke up one of my roommates and we took our
cameras and made our way to the river to watch the skyline dissolve.
The strangest thing was after they had collapsed there was suddenly
nothing to see but the empty downtown.
Yesterday I couldn't help but go in to Manhattan. Before getting on
the train, looking back at the void. It was, like Tuesday, a beautiful
day. They wouldn't let us beyond a certain point, so you couldn't see
much besides the smoke and all the emergency vehicles going by, all
sorts of trucks and equiptment for moving the remains of the building.
It didn't go unnoticed that the end of 6th Ave, and other streets
normally leading to the towers at their vanishing point, there was
only the sun, bright and shining. Unwelcomed, yet still shining
rather than shining onto these buildings. I guess that this was, for
me the largest signifier of what had happened. These structures were
large enough to stop the sun and we watched them and all the lives
in them collapse in front of our eyes. I think that in the same way
that they just are suddenly gone the lives lost are for so many
people. All of these wives and sisters and mothers keep going on tv
to describe their missing husbands, brothers, and sons. To call
them "missing," although we all know that most likely many of them
are gone, seems appropriate somehow. They are missing. That space
is void all of a sudden.
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