posted on Sep, 9 2004 @ 11:47 AM
I have never told anybody this story before, but it is totally true. Maybe telling this story will be of some cathartic help to me.
I live in Queens , New York. I used to be able to see the World Trade Centre from my kitchen window, but now I just see the surviving buildings.
On the morning of September 2001, my boyfriend who I was living with at the time was getting ready to leave for work. He was running late as always,
not that that has anything to do with the story as he worked in Queens, but just as he left the door the phone rang, and his Russian mother was on the
phone asking for him. I said he was in the shower, and she said "did you see the news. An Aeroplane flew into the Empire State Building". I was
totally flabbergasted and turned on the TV - and it was the first of the planes that had flown into the WTC on the screen. I rushed to the bathroom
and shouted "a plane flew into the WTC". Disbelievingly he came out and watched the TV with me . Then left for work . Just before he got into the
subway I called on his cellphone and said "a second plane has flown into the WTC". There was a general sense of disbelief. By the time he got off
the subway I called again and said " The building has collapsed,", then the second one has collapsed. I took a couple of pictures out of the kitchen
window before they collapsed and can scan them if anybody wants to see them, but they are just normal bad pics of Manhattan in the distance with smoke
billowing out of the two buildings.
This is however not what my story is about. Two days later with the world still in shock, we kept watching the TV in disbelief and horror and when we
went to bed that night we both had trouble getting to sleep. It was like trying to sleep in a room full of people. We cuddled for a bit both scared
and uneasy, when they became visible. The room was filled with people standing around - looking unhappy and confused. They milled around the room for
about an hour and then disappeared. I wish I could have helped them in their transition but I was too frightened.
[edit on 9-9-2004 by Mynaeris]