08-03-2002, 11:30 PM
I was working at my desk when someone ran into the office and said a plane hit the WTC. At first I thought maybe it was some sort of sick joke that someone on the radio was playing.
I walked down to the front doors of our building...the WTC is directly across the water from where I stood...All of a sudden the second plane hit...I stood there in disbelief as tears began streaming down my face.
The first thing that crossed my mind was that Pat Cooper worked in Manhattan and I ran up the stairs and tried to call his office. The whole day all you heard were the radios playing throughout the office...everyone else was either crying or sitting in complete silence.
At one point most of the building had crowded into the CEO's office to watch the horrific footage on the television. That vision of the plane hitting the WTC will play in everyone's minds forever.
I will never forget that moment when the second plane hit...It wasn't an image on tv or a picture in the newspaper...It was right in front of my eyes...:-(
I walked down to the front doors of our building...the WTC is directly across the water from where I stood...All of a sudden the second plane hit...I stood there in disbelief as tears began streaming down my face.
The first thing that crossed my mind was that Pat Cooper worked in Manhattan and I ran up the stairs and tried to call his office. The whole day all you heard were the radios playing throughout the office...everyone else was either crying or sitting in complete silence.
At one point most of the building had crowded into the CEO's office to watch the horrific footage on the television. That vision of the plane hitting the WTC will play in everyone's minds forever.
I will never forget that moment when the second plane hit...It wasn't an image on tv or a picture in the newspaper...It was right in front of my eyes...:-(