Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The second Boston massacre has echoes of 9/11

The second Boston Massacre has echoes of 9/11.Ironically both happen on picture perfect days,both the villains are kind shallowly dripping with evil that can not seem.As it so happen,on 9/11/01 I worked at New york County Lawyers Association which was located catty-corner from World Trade Center.
I wrote a letter to editor about my experience on that fateful day.I wrote in 2112 and it was published in New York Daily News on 9/13/12.This is what I wrote:"On that sunny September morning,civilization seemed to cease and faith in good things was shaken forevermore.Peaceful America become a battleground of the sane versus the insane.
I worked across from the World Trade Center.That morning my smoke alarm went off,making me late for work.Looking back,that alarm,which never went off before and hasn't since,was a warning of trouble.
I crossed the bridge and got on the A train. At 59th St. the train stopped.I left the subway and walked crosstown. I saw people milling about outside.It struck me strange,but I took no notice,as I was on my hopeless attempt to make it to work.I tried the Lexington line and heard that the Pentagon was under attack.I thought,the Russians .World War III.But the Russians were now our friends;this was idiot talk.Then I left the subway again and saw that mushroom cloud over downtown.
After a few weeks, my workplace reopened.It was so strange down in that haunted land.There was a burning smell of rubber and people were in a daze,staring intensely into the hole in the ground,the site of the former World Trade Center.
Where have the 11 years gone? Time moves on and so do lives.Soon we all turn to ashes,nothing but a memory,the sound and fury of life gone forevermore.

Gary Schwartz           

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