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Reflective
Citizen
Username: Reflective
Post Number: 760
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 10:26 am: | 
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When I mentionned this to my son, a few minutes ago, he said it was like ancient history. To me it is a reminder that the enemy continues to be alive and well and we ignore them at our own peril.
The Anniversary:
18 minutes after noon on February 26,1993, a truck bomb exploded in the WTC's parking garage, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
I arrived on PATH 30 minutes before and just missed it.
One of the bombers and masterminds lived in Maplewood and in a huge early morning raid on Boyden was arrested and his computer and records were seized.
Another key date
2/26/91:
- Iraqi forces were in full retreat from Kuwait with allied forces pursuing. Iraqi POWs numbered over 30,000.
- Saddam Hussein announces Iraqi forces will withdraw completely.
- Residents of Kuwait City celebrate the end to the Iraqi occupation.
11/2/92 - President George Bush loses to Bill Clinton
11/3/92- Saddam Hussein holds a victory rally in Ramadi, fires his pistol into the air shouting: "The mother of battles continues and will continue".
February 26,1993, 12:18pm, the first WTC attack.
I remember it well and how it was treated as just a criminal act.
In two hours I will say a prayer for the innocent victims killed on 2/26/93. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13263
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 12:40 am: |
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I'm glad you posted this. I clearly remember sitting in a conference room in Delaware when suddenly everyones beepers went off simultaneously.
The first reports we got were that one of the buildings had a small fire. Then we heard about the bombing.
We were served notice on that day. We just weren't listening intently enough afterwards. |
apm
Citizen
Username: Apm
Post Number: 233
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 8:32 am: |
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I was sitting on the 1/9 train when the bomb went off on the way to the WTC from the village. As the subway stopped and the doors opened the smoke started filling up the station. Everyone covered their mouths and ran up the stairs and out. After we got out and realized it was a terrorist bomb, I remember thinking how they tried to bring the towers down but couldn't. I am amazed we all didn't realize they wouldn't stop. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 714
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 11:38 am: |
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I was listening to some replays of news broadcasts from that day, and one witness said it felt like an airplane had hit the building. Gave me shivers. |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 770
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |
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2/26/93-9/11/01. Not one single fire drill. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7753
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 12:57 pm: |
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I was there on 2/26 along with 9/11. The really fun part was feeling your way down pitch dark emergency stairs that were filled with smoke. The only good thing was most of us thought that there had been a transformer explosion, a fairly common occurrence in lower Manhattan in those days, not a terror attack, until much later.
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Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1614
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 1:07 pm: |
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I remember that day too Bob,
My office was at 130 Cedar, right across the street, and closer to the actual explosion than most in the towers were.
At first I though it was a transformer too, but a Russian guy at my office keps saying it was a bomb. He was right, when I thought it was an accident I was fine, when I found out it was an "on purpose" it really hit home. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5094
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 2:25 pm: |
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I remember that day. I was seated in my office at 2 Washington Street, just a few blocks away when I got a call from my mother saying that a bomb had gone off in the WTC (where my sister worked). She wanted to know if I had heard anything from my sister. Obviously, at that time I had not. Later that afternoon, I was able to get hold of my sister, who told me that she had walked down the stairs (50 some odd floors) to safety. My sister was tired and shaken but otherwise unharmed. She was grateful that the building was so well constructed that the bomb had done relatively little damage.
I think the relatively minor impact (6 dead and over a thousand injured - most with minor injuries, was far less catastrophic than what could have and did eventually happen just a few years later)made us more complacent regarding WTC security than we would have been if the bomb had caused greater damage. The people responsible for WTC security concluded that tightening in-building parking security was a sufficient solution -- it wasn't!
My son was in middle school when the story of the Maplewood connection to the bombing surfaced. It turned out that the younger brother of the bombing conspirator was in a friend's homeroom.
Talk about the few degrees of separation in this town. |
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