I remember it was a gorgeous, sunny day
I remember taking a guest to Penn station and directing him to Port Authority, he only spoke spanish, so it took some time, so I was late getting into the subway to work.
I remember people talking at 14th street about an airplane and the towers
I remember the conductor on the subway saying because of a fire, we were getting off at Chambers street
I remember walking out of the subway and seeing people staring up at the North tower
I remember walking towards the building and trying to use my cell phone
I remember using an old school payphone to call my office
I remember telling my bosses to call my parents and my wife
I remember my bosses telling me to look for a co-worker
I remember Pat O'Shea who I golfed with the day before
I remember walking up to the post office near the Borders at the trade center
I remember looking down and seeing bloody rags in the street
I remember a woman telling me her daughter was in one of the elevators and couldnt get out
I remember standing next to a large piece of aircraft parts (engine or wheel)
I remember picking up a hunk of warm, oily metal and wondering what it was
I remember seeing lots of assorted shoes in the streets
I remember wanting to go home
I remembered trying to find Marcia
I remember Sira Patti
I remember walking towards city hall
I remember the motorola 2 way walkie talki working with my boss
I remember seeing (finally) someone from the office
I remember trying to loop around to the plaza via Nassau st
I remember a rumbling
I remember losing my phone
I remember huge columns of smoke and debris rushing down the side streets
I remember wanting to be anywhere but there
I remember Steve Siller
I remember running
I remember wanting to see my wife and kids
I remember the "snow" after the first tower went down
I remember trying to use the phone again
I remember heading uptown in a cab with some woman who left her purse in the rubble
I remeber looking back and seeing just one tower standing out above the clouds of debris
I remember getting to midtown, covered in dust and crap
I remember ducking into a doorway on 35th street when an air force jet rocketed by
I remember wondering if I would get home
I remember my phone finally working when I was in midtown, my brother from California was checking in on me
I remember the look on my bosses faces when I made it to the midtown office
I remember taking clothes and a backpack and food and a knife from my bosses office and telling him I would walk through the tunnels if I had to, but I was going home.
I remember civilians outside of Penn station directing traffic
I remember Peter Moutos
I remember finally seeing the gates open and a train was there and ready to go
I remember hearing people talk about seeing it from afar
I remember getting home and being picked up by my brother in law
I remember opening beer after beer watching on TV
I remember people calling but not hearing anything
I remember my kids coming home one by one, the look on their faces wondering if their Dad was going to come home
I remember watching the smoke from the site 35 miles away as the sunset
I remember waiting for my wife to come home
I remember John Sherry
I remember watching till the late hours on spanish language TV since the guests were all spanish
I remember wondering if I had a job anymore
I remember going to sleep
I remember waking up as Peters wife Meg asked if I saw him,she said "He isnt home yet"
I remember Rob telling me the same thing about John
I remember walking my daughter to school on the 12th
I remember reading TBD and writing.
I remember Vinnie Danz
I remember going to funerals with empty caskets
I remember being happy they found Vinnies gun and some bone fragments
I remember trying to forget