Arrived via PATH to WTC at 8:25am. Sat down at my desk across the street from WTC ( 1 Liberty Plaza ) at about 8:35am. I was the first to the window overlooking WTC after the “boom”. I remember the look of terror on each of my colleague’s faces as they got to the window and saw the North Tower. Our building was (at first voluntarily ) evacuated. Everyone was on the street looking up at the bodies falling to the street. I headed for the subway (to go to family in brooklyn as I felt getting back to NJ would be impossible) and was going down the steps near Chase Plaza Wall St 2/3 station as the second plane hit. I was telling folks coming up the subway steps to go back home. They looked at me like I was a lunatic and practically pushed me out of the way. I’m almost shaking as I’m typing this.
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