On 09/11/01 I was ....
September 12th 2010 08:33
I was home. In a chatroom - chatting with online friends as well as with my then boyfriend who was in California.
It was night time in Manila and people in the US were starting their day. People I was chatting with were mostly Filipinos -both in the Philippines and in the US.
When the news started coming about the Twin Towers, people in the US, particularly those in New York started to freak out, calling relatives all over the US who might be in the towers, on the planes or anywhere that could be related to the tragedy.
One of them, a high school student in Queens was saying she's at the 4th floor of their school building and she has plain view of the towers from where she was sitting. I can just imagine the horror in her and her classmates as they watch the towers billowing black smoke and as the 2nd plane hit the north tower.
To us who were in the Philippines, it was like watching a high-budget movie -- but having these people who were geographically nearer and may have friends and family where it's happening made everything real to us.
The hairs in my arms and the back of my neck stood as I remember us actually standing at Ground Zero a year before this happened. It was Memorial Day so we weren't able to go up the towers, but I remember how massive and majestic those towers were. I even had a picture on a ferry going to Lady Liberty with those towers as my background. That was just a year ago! What if we went there 2001 instead of 2000? What if it happened on 2000? Sends chills down my spine.
It rattles you as a human being to see something so devastating broadcasted live and you know you can't do anything. Even the people at ground zero couldn't do much but help those who managed to get out of the building. But as the towers crumbled... nobody could do anything.
I wonder. If this kind of tragedy happened TODAY - only 9 years later, would there have been other ways to help and save more lives?
It was night time in Manila and people in the US were starting their day. People I was chatting with were mostly Filipinos -both in the Philippines and in the US.
When the news started coming about the Twin Towers, people in the US, particularly those in New York started to freak out, calling relatives all over the US who might be in the towers, on the planes or anywhere that could be related to the tragedy.
One of them, a high school student in Queens was saying she's at the 4th floor of their school building and she has plain view of the towers from where she was sitting. I can just imagine the horror in her and her classmates as they watch the towers billowing black smoke and as the 2nd plane hit the north tower.
To us who were in the Philippines, it was like watching a high-budget movie -- but having these people who were geographically nearer and may have friends and family where it's happening made everything real to us.
The hairs in my arms and the back of my neck stood as I remember us actually standing at Ground Zero a year before this happened. It was Memorial Day so we weren't able to go up the towers, but I remember how massive and majestic those towers were. I even had a picture on a ferry going to Lady Liberty with those towers as my background. That was just a year ago! What if we went there 2001 instead of 2000? What if it happened on 2000? Sends chills down my spine.
It rattles you as a human being to see something so devastating broadcasted live and you know you can't do anything. Even the people at ground zero couldn't do much but help those who managed to get out of the building. But as the towers crumbled... nobody could do anything.
I wonder. If this kind of tragedy happened TODAY - only 9 years later, would there have been other ways to help and save more lives?
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