Bill Collins
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 May 2005
Location: England
Posts: 11595
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I had just started an afternoon 2pm-10pm shift at work in
a steel processing factory (We're 5 hours ahead of New
York) and in our bay we had no radio because it was too
noisy. A maintenance fitter who had a radio in his
workshop told us what had happened, and like J.B. we
imagined a light aircraft like a Cessna embedded in one
of the towers. As he learned more, he kept us informed
and the true horror became clear. (Nowadays we'd be
watching it on our phones)
I remember coming home and switching on the tv and being
stunned by the horrific footage. It was like a movie, but
real, was my overbearing thought.
I am a fan of New York based band Dream Theater, and they
had an image on one of their albums of a burning heart
wrapped in barbed wire. For their live version of a
subsequent album called Scenes From A Memory played in
their home city of New York-The Big Apple they had an
image of a burning apple wrapped in barbed wire with a
silhouette of the New York Skyline in the background with
The Two Towers clearly visible, they called the album
Live Scenes From New York. It was released on 9/11/01 and
was hastily withdrawn and a new cover designed. On
Tuesday 9/12/01 a pre-ordered copy of said album was
delivered by mail. I can't begin to explain how weird it
felt to open that package and see that prescient scene on
the cd cover.
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