So where were you - When you heard about wtc bombings?

[Doc]

Really? Even if you were caught in a panicking tight crowd trying to get away? Had to pull your shirt over your face because of a smoke cloud rolling over you as the first tower falls? Proceeded to inhale rancid air for a month?

Look, I wasn't saying I don't have sympathy for everyone who was affected, it's just that we all went through a lot of shit that day. One of the guys from my house worked in 7 World Trade. He was walking on the street when the first one hit. He didn't turn around because he thought the sound was a dump truck going over a steel plate on the street (anyone who works in the city knows what I mean). He only turned when he saw people running past him. He took a bottle of water, soaked his shirt and breathed through that after they fell. So after going through all that, when he talked to me after he got back to Hoboken, did he feel like his experience was more real than mine? No. He was a lot more scared than me, he got to pick up a memo that flew 10 blocks away out of someone's office on the 70th floor. But we were both affected by it the same way.

What really kind of drove me crazy was when I realized the towers were no more and all those people died

After they fell, there was this column of smoke that staying place for a long time. It wasn't until that smoke cleared (I think it was a day or two) until I fully realized they were gone. And then for a week afterward, there was this smell in the air, and it really hit me when I realized that I was smelling what used to be the buildings