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September 11, 2008
When the big city became small town New York
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We are devoting many posts today to the anniversary of 9/11, with first-hand accounts, insight, and commentary dedicated to that day seven years ago that changed our world.
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Visitors to the Brooklyn Promenade look out at Lower Manhattan, September 10, 2002.
Visitors to the Brooklyn Promenade look out at Lower Manhattan, September 10, 2002.

Adam Levine
CNN Pentagon Unit

One of the things I remember most about 9/11 is the sense of community that started pretty much when the attacks began.

I was at home, getting ready for work on that sunny Tuesday in Brooklyn when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Told to come in, I jumped on the subway. At that point, I knew little. I believe the feeling at the time was that a recreational pilot somehow hit the building with his plane.

But as the subway train barreled towards Manhattan, I learned more. Each time the doors open, someone would inevitably get on having heard just a few more minutes of information. And they would tell it to people near them in the car.

In Brooklyn, the F-train goes above ground for a while. Your view was of the World Trade Center, dominating the skyline. Everyone's eyes were glued to the burning building. Or was it buildings? We were trying to figure that out when the train went back underground.

A ConEd guy started telling me that he was sure it was terrorism (he was the first person to tell me that) and that he'd been called in to help out. Before that day, I don't think anyone had talked to me on the subway who wasn't trying to beg money or sell me something.

But conversations between strangers seemed to be starting everywhere. Nobody could believe what was going on and everybody needed to talk it over right away.

A woman near me was crying. Someone else was comforting her.

It dawned on me that New York felt like a small town at that moment.

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rebekah boyer   September 11th, 2008 10:23 pm ET

I was in Brooklyn too, at the time. I remember thinking how completely unreal that buildings should be rolling down in free– fall speed--like we are living in a movie of Independence Day...
Nobody I knew was fooled into thinking what the government tried to make us believe.... that "Terrorists" passports were emerging completely intact from fireballs for quick, easy and "convenient" identification.....that Norad was napping that day instead of scrambling F-16's within 10 minutes.... that the Pentagon was simply plowed into...
What was obvious from my vantage point in Brooklyn was that EXPLODED , PULVERIZED material was being shot across the boroughs.That the Towers, specially designed to withstand large planes plowing into them, were now in Controlled Demolition free- fall ..... can you imagine the brazen gall of gov. trying to snow us with that "who woulda thunk-it" ploy...
" If it doesn't gel' it ain't aspic!', said the detective in Psycho and what better metaphor to come to mind when watching your children play on a calm, windless day in ledger paper......
A fine pulverized dust covered everything on the sidewalk where my children played that day after being pulled from school. Now we know that dust contained the asbestoes that was going to have to come out of the building that now everyone had the oportunity to breathe, not just the 1st responders. Take a look at the documentary 911 Coincidences and see CNN's own reporters on the site that day talking about "an explosion and another explosion,,,"
We were All horrified that day. We were all trying to cooperate and help each other. Now another big job awaits us and I'm not talking about helping this criminal corporate enterprise cart all the evidence to a foreign landfill. I'm talking about all free people pf the world aknowledging this government mischief and exposing the secret agenda that caused it
Educate Yourself is a good site to google so that we don't Have to spend our lives cowering in the face of brutal false- flag operations.
Building 7 cane down that same day with no so- called plane hitting it and was reported by the British Broadcasting CO. twenty minutes before it fell. Let's not go through life the way that the ILLUMINATI want us to: huddled together With EYES WIDE SHUT.

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