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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of you have real memories of 9/11.

I say that as I know a lot of people who died that day and had family in building who did get out.

But I was doing consulting work at KBW shortly after 9/11 (large amount of company died)

The young women I was helping commented so many people claim they were there but if you were watching safely from NJ or even a few blocks away you were not there.

Her story was both her parents and her worked in WTC. When planes hit they were to meet at the pay phone across street by Miami Station Subs (near Burger King) across building.

She got stuck in stairway pitch black and full  of smoke and was choking. At this point the second tower already was hit. She knew it was coming down and choking in the dark.

She gets out at this point madness and runs towards pain phone where her parents stayed way to close. She dove towards her and felt searing pain and world went black, she survived but had burns on her back.

She told me unless you were trapped in that stairwell you did not really experience the horror.

My own sister was in building but she was on canal street by time it fell as was walking uptown up Broadway and she was terrified.

KBW is still in business but 1/3 died [/quote]
This. The people who were there or lost loved ones experienced the real horror. Everyone else’s experience is not at all comparable. This is why I am not a fan of the “where were you stories.” They just seem vaguely attention-seeking and tone deaf. [/quote]

I used to think this, and still do to a large degree. But now that time is passing and fewer and fewer people alive now actually remember it, I do think there is some value for the collective memory or whatever, for regular people to share stories.[/quote]

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