Seeing those lights on tv tonight brought it all back to me in an instant. I spent a lot of time in the shadows of those towers.
During the course of about a year, I probably spent 6 months of it at the Marriott right there at the base. I think it was a 41 story building, dwarfed by those majestic towers. Only once did I have a view of the towers, I usually had a view of the Statue of Liberty. Used eat dinner virtually every night at the Tall Ships, also in that building.
Though I once did have dinner at Windows on the World. Words can't express how impressive that was. Used to hit up the Krispy Kreme over on the other side of the plaza, way before they were everywhere you looked.
Saw a country singer playing out in the plaza one day, can't think of her name right now, though it's on the tip of my tongue. I'll get that later, probably hehe.
Used to go down under the plaza to catch the train over to Jersey, I was working at a data center in Exchange Place. Talk about a view of the towers.
I was staying at the hotel one night when all of a sudden there were tons of emergency vehicles, including quite a few hazmats responding to the building that held the customs office, and that was scary, I can't even begin to imagine how it was on that day 7 years ago.
I've only flown into Newark once since then, it was almost surreal, I didn't feel like I was in the right place.
Things will never be the same, not since that day. And that is a sad thing.
Never Forget, Never Forgive.
