9/11...

Video by James Likeks on 9/11

Excerpts from his live blogging...

Tue 11 Sep 01 08:07

• Saw the first tower collapse from the Promenade across the river in Brooklyn. Fine white and pale yellow ash everywhere. Lower Manhattan covered in smoke with ash still drifting down.
• Military jets overhead every five minutes or so.
• Lower span of Brooklyn Bridge jammed with people walking out of the city, many covered with white ash. Ghosts. The Living Dead. BQE empty except for convoys of emergency vehicles.
• Sirens in all directions. Ferry ships emerging from the smoke heading to the Brooklyn shore riding low in the water fully loaded.
• This is monstrous.
• Deaths in the thousands in New York.
• My body is trembling with sorrow and rage. I saw the first tower fall. Everyone in it would have been killed. This, all this, must be stopped. Those who have done this must be wiped out to the last.
• War with whom?
• Any and all terrorist organizations, foreign or domestic, must now be brought to a swift and complete halt no matter where they are located.
• I watched this happen. The enormity of it cannot be communicated. Vile and bestial.
• We need to destroy any and all capacity of anyone living anywhere to do anything like this ever again. There were thousands in those buildings. Thousands.
• There is no justice swift enough or sure enough.
• All that we have must be brought forward and used without restraint. This is an act of war beyond Pearl Harbor.
• Military jets overhead again.
• More ash on the street. I am cooled down. Way down.
• This is pure evil. [READ THE WHOLE THING!]

 I was on my 2nd day of work in a new job working in a very small cabinet shop in Lyndell, PA, called L.W. Crossan, Cabinetmaker.  It's the only job I've ever had that I actually looked forward to a 35 mile commute...because  I learned something new every single day I worked there.  Unfortunately, after 9/11 we lost a number of clients due to the financial stress that followed the destruction of the Towers.  But I look very fondly upon the few months I worked for Larry.