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I could see the twin towers on my way from Cliffwood Beach to work in Sou=th
Orange this past Tuesday. It was about 9:30 or 9:40 am here when I saw
them, looking northeast over the Raritan Bay at the southern portion of
Manhattan as I was driving over the Edison Bridge. At first I had heard o=n
the radio that an airplane had struck, and I thought that it must have be=en
a light aircraft, but as the view came up I saw a great deal of smoke
pouring out from the top portion of the buildings. I was horrified to hea=r
that it was a jetliner, and then another one. As I reached the Seton Hall
campus I ran up to my building and to the radio in the lab and also put o=n
msnbc.com on the computer. Manhattan is about 16 miles east of here but c=an
only be seen from the tops of buildings. The traffic north and east of he=re
was horrendous and totally stopped at the New Jersey state border with Ne=w
York state.
The full reality of this occurance only just struck me yesterday. Among t=he
shock I experienced was hearing that as many as 10,000 lives may have bee=n
lost and also the realization these buildings had been a familiar part of
my landscape since childhood; although distant, marking the spot where
Manhattan lay.
I only hope that justice may come so as to prevent any more of these brut=al
acts from damaging and wiping out so many innocent lives.
Bonaventure