Never forget !!

[Old Mud]

 

[Old Mud]

 

[Eddyde]

Here are my photos from that day:

9/11/01

My Experience, Related to September 11th 2001 On the morning of September 11th 2001, I was working as a general contractor and headed into Manhattan for a pre-construction meeting at 152 Franklin Street, the site of a major loft renovation that I was to begin in the next couple of weeks...

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[Old Mud]

Here are my photos from that day:

9/11/01

My Experience, Related to September 11th 2001 On the morning of September 11th 2001, I was working as a general contractor and headed into Manhattan for a pre-construction meeting at 152 Franklin Street, the site of a major loft renovation that I was to begin in the next couple of weeks...

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Some very good photo's of a very sad event. Thank you Eddy.

 

[7milesup]

Here are my photos from that day:

9/11/01

My Experience, Related to September 11th 2001 On the morning of September 11th 2001, I was working as a general contractor and headed into Manhattan for a pre-construction meeting at 152 Franklin Street, the site of a major loft renovation that I was to begin in the next couple of weeks...

flic.kr

Holy Cow Eddy. Those are some incredible pictures. May I ask what you did to get such access?
I came home from my normal week long trip the night before 9-11. I remember going back into New York a week or so later. Came from the West and made a left turn at the Statue of Liberty and then up the Hudson. Went right over the top at 1500 feet or so of what was left of the Trade Center. I think my First Officer and myself were fighting back the tears....

 

[Suzuki4evr]

The world cried with you that day.

 

[Eddyde]

Holy Cow Eddy. Those are some incredible pictures. May I as what you did to get such access?
I came home from my normal week long trip the night before 9-11. I remember going back into New York a week or so later. Came from the West and made a left turn at the Statue of Liberty and then up the Hudson. Went right over the top at 1500 feet or so of what was left of the Trade Center. I think my First Officer and myself were fighting back the tears....

It's a long story but basically I was a civilian volunteer. I arrived at ground zero at 3:00 pm on 9/11/01, A first I was with a group of about 15 other civilians. We started by getting water and soft drinks to the firefighters and other rescue personnel, many of whom were very dehydrated, we also distributed candy & chips for energy. A little later we made hundreds of sandwiches and got them better fed. We took everything from two super markets and a deli that were in the area, as no such supplies were coming in from the outside. After around 10 pm I was asked to help search for bodies, body parts and possibly survivors, sadly none of the latter were found. We also did things like carry acetylene & oxygen tanks over the debris to the ironworkers who were cutting the steel out of the way so bodies could be recovered, As there was no heavy equipment able to reach most of the area so we also had to manually drag the cut steel sections off the bodies with ropes, usually with 50 or more men. I worked till around 9 am the next day, by then fresh troops (some literally) and supplies were being brought in from the outside. I managed to take the ground zero pictures during my few breaks.

 

[tjb]

I doubt that any of us will forget that day. We knew a young man that was scheduled for a job interview at the WTC that morning. He overslept. It saved his life.

 

[7milesup]

Wow. Incredible story there Eddyde. Could not imagine being there.