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2 Responses to “ Remembering 9/11 ”

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   Khonnie Sep 12th, 2007 at 5:23 pm

   This is a beautiful picture. I did not know that the shops and businesses around the site were up and running. That is a good thing. I went to the site about a month and a half after the tragedy and it was still smoldering. I have not been back but am planning to go there within the next year. I am looking forward to seeing the memorial that is there. I remember being panicked because I have a friend who lives in PA and since there was an attack there too I called her. Thank goodness though that it was not in Philadelphia. Although I never lived there-just visited a couple of times-I still felt a hugh sense of loss and sadness for the families that lost loved ones.

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   Ginger Sep 13th, 2007 at 9:03 am

   Hi Khonnie, I was also there December 2000 visiting my sisters. I met up with my friends at a Thai Restaurant, one of the girls that worked near the twin towels, all she’d talk about was the horrific images that she saw from her office window, of people jumping off the building.  My brother in-law works at Century 21 Department store across from ground zero, and the building was built after 9/11 and I think it didn’t take them that long to rebuild the area, it’s just that there is so much controversial with ground zero and that’s why it’s still like that.  Most people that visit my sisters in NYC, all they want to go see is ground zero.

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