Paraphrasing Teresa Veliz

"I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place.
Everywhere there were going off explosions
as if someone was sitting at a control panel base
and pushing detonator buttons.
There was another explosion,
and then another one.
I didn't know which way to run."
 - Teresa Veliz, working on the 47th floor of the North Tower on 09/11.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Collins Avatar
September 30, 2012 at 9:26 AM
the horror is incomprehensible.
Grisetti Avatar
August 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM
It must have been quite scary at the towers that day. Chaos and mayhem and noise and death. Hope it never happens again.
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