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Originally Posted by red-beard
On Dec 26th, 1999, I was passing through NY on the way to JFK. I joked that I better take a photo of the towers...I was about 21 months early...
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I took this pic of my son in July 2001 this is the observatory on the top floor. About 6 weeks later the buildings were gone.
I never returned back to my home state after that until 2 years ago in June. When I got to ground zero it was a lot to take in. I looked over at 1WTC and thought, I will never go up in that building.
I think I took 1 or 2 pictures when I first got there, then it started to set in. After we walked around for a few and took it in, we were pretty bummed out and somber. Then my wife noticed a man sitting on a bench nearby holding a watch in his hand and sobbing. We started to get choked up and left. I was a little put off by the people taking selfies with big stupid smiles on their faces. It was really off putting to me especially when there was a man sitting 20 feet away crying, most likely over the loss of a loved one. Yet, that is how things are today, its all about the perfect selfie.
WTC was our meeting place when we visited NYC years ago, we would take the subway there and meet in the courtyard outside between the buildings. It was weird they were not there anymore.
