Quote:
Originally Posted by Art cov
We can all remember where we were on 9-11. My cousin worked in the towers but thankfully took a vacation day to close on a house in Island Park We will never forget!
|
I was working in Pratt Whitney that day, as a temp doing some spec-writing and editing for engineers working on some of the military helicoptors in a government contract job. One of them had the TV on his monitor in the background while he was working, and told us all to take a look...
While we watched the first tower collapse, another engineer commented on how our building would make a perfect target, since we were working on military helicopters and we were a HUGE building (a single building that took up around 4 city blocks of space, with air-conditioned trailers we worked out of scattered along the floor and dozens of stations where each part of the helicoptor's blades were made and tempered and soldered and whatever else...)
Soon as he said that I grabbed my pocketbook and RAN through the warehouse out to the parking lot and drove home, called the temp agency and told them I wouldn't go back to that job because I didn't want to die.
I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV, sobbing uncontrollably and horrified.