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Writer's Block: 9/11
Sep. 11th, 2011 11:29 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I suppose I should answer, it being the national Day of Remembrance, even though I don't have a particularly memorable story. My mother called me up first thing in the morning with the news that something was going on in New York City, and I turned on the TV and saw the waterfront engulfed in smoke.
I was living in Montana at the time, so I was decidedly removed from the focus of events (my father, though, works not far from NYC and knew at least one guy who didn't get out of the towers). I did, however, live close to my city's downtown, and I walked to the post office that day after the main body of news ended just to get some human contact; usually, at least some shoppers can be found filtering in and out of the stores and streets. That day, though, there was just utterly no one, no one out at all, nothing except empty canyons of steel and the sky blank grey overhead.
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I suppose I should answer, it being the national Day of Remembrance, even though I don't have a particularly memorable story. My mother called me up first thing in the morning with the news that something was going on in New York City, and I turned on the TV and saw the waterfront engulfed in smoke.
I was living in Montana at the time, so I was decidedly removed from the focus of events (my father, though, works not far from NYC and knew at least one guy who didn't get out of the towers). I did, however, live close to my city's downtown, and I walked to the post office that day after the main body of news ended just to get some human contact; usually, at least some shoppers can be found filtering in and out of the stores and streets. That day, though, there was just utterly no one, no one out at all, nothing except empty canyons of steel and the sky blank grey overhead.
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