Impossible to forget. The problem is I always remember it.
My company had contracts in the towers to do all the HVAC, plumbing and fire sprinkler work, (requirements contract).
I lost three high school and childhood friends, a coworkers brother, my daughter's teachers husband and a dozen or so construction manager friends. My cousin and one of our field supers narrowly escaped. They were going to get their ID's updated, would have to go to the 3B office, when they turned the corner onto Liberty St and the first plane hit. The devestation was incredible.
I stood on the roof of my shop only to watch the second plane hit and the towers fall.
God, there is not a single day I do not look toward those buildings on the way home.
I still have dreams, bad dreams. I still can't get the image of paper from someone's desk landing on me, with a hand written memo.
I can't forget, it won't let me.
Taken on 9/11/12....we are coming back!