on 9/11/01 5:02 PM, Michael Contopoulos at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I work across the street at 1 Liberty Plaza and saw the second plane come in
> and crash. The force of the collision blew out the window I was looking
> from (we're literally right across the street on the 51st floor). It really
> was like a war-zone. I had made it about 2 or 3 blocks north walking home
> (about 5 miles away on the upper west side) when one of the towers collapsed
> and coverered me in debris. It was really horrifying. BUT... I have to
> hand it to the New York people... they remained calm and got the hell out of
> there as quickly as posible. My prayers go out to those not as lucky as I
> and their families and loved ones.
>
> Mike
>
>
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>> Subject: t-and-f: Goodwill/The Real World
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:35:53 EDT
>>
>> I was returning from another fantasy trip to Australia this morning...first
>> I
>> knew anything was wrong was when we landed at LAX and the pilot said
>> something serious had happened on the East Coast and that there would be no
>> connecting flights leaving anytime soon. Some of the Turner folks I was
>> travelling with called home from the plane and that's when it started to
>> sink
>> in.
>>
>> It was an eerie scene at LAX...apparently only two planes, both coming from
>> Australia, were allowed to land in L.A. because we were getting low on
>> fuel.
>> We picked up our bags, went through customs, then were guided quickly out
>> of
>> the terminal by airport personnell and FBI agents. We were told to keep
>> moving to the right where buses were waiting to take us off the premises.
>> TV
>> crews were already there and the procession of people and luggage carts
>> made
>> me think (to a much smaller degree) of scenes that we've all seen on TV,
>> where people are fleeing a war zone. We may have been cross-country from
>> where the carnage took place, but the sense of urgency in the voices of the
>> people in charge left no doubt as to the seriousness of the situation.
>>
>> My niece works just 2-3 blocks from the Towers....my sister and her husband
>> were a wreck until they heard she was OK. She had to walk across one of the
>> bridges into Brooklyn (the subway was shut down) and was almost overcome by
>> the smoke.
>>
>> I worked in the Wall Street area for 20-years, and watched the Towers being
>> built. Possibly knowing some of the people who died, I can't bring myself
>> to
>> watch the TV broadcasts
>>
>> Don't know when I'm going to get out of L.A....thank goodness I was
>> travelling with folks from Turner....one of the guys coordinated
>> transportation and rooms at the Sheraton in Universal City. We'll figure
>> out
>> what we're going to do tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Walt Murphy
>
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Mike and others,
It very upsetting day for me also ... I have many friends that worked in
the WTC ... still trying to find out about US marathoner Joe McVeigh (NYAC),
is he on this list with us?
My prayers for everyone ... this world is crazy, T&F is just NOT so
important right now!
Tom Fleming
