I had an apartment on the Battery at that time. I was seated at the window having breakfast when the second plane came by my window on the 29th floor, before rising to hit the second tower behind me at a higher level.
I can briefly see my apartment building, with my window just at the left of the frame, as the plane flies toward the building in this film. Shortly afterward, we were evacuated, and I saw the flames coming from the plane-shaped holes in the two towers from a few blocks to the south.
In the years after it happened, I walked by Ground Zero many times, to try to come to terms with it and to pray for the dead.
63 Muslim countries (as defined by the CIA) from Afghanistan to Zanzibar, without a single 9/11 WTC (non-hijacker) fatality.
4 Muslim countries with 9/11 WTC fatalities:
Indonesia (92% Muslim) 1 dead
Lebanon (75% Muslim) 3 dead
Nigeria (75% Muslim) 1 dead
Usbekistan (88% Muslim) 1 dead
Giving a grand total of 6 fatalities from møøselimb countries.
Just for comparison: 140 Israelis died in the rubble of the WTC...
Jeez Cicero. I can only imagine the anger in YOUR heart. After my visit to GZ and St. Paul’s I never what to see that hole in the ground again. I’m usually stone hearted, but that little visit broke me down a notch or two.