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The one above is in a plaza in front of an office building in Osaka. This immediately took me back to my ol' journalism school days. One of our best photographers, Sam Jones, had the school's anti-skateboarding ordinance scotch-taped to the underside of his skateboard.
Thank you, mrmoonpie for that image. I've never seen an image remotely like it (that is, an image of that attack from a distance), which is not odd considering I could not look at any images of that scene until last month. [my essentially self-absorbed story about it all deleted].
crush-onastick, here's another. You can just barely pick out a hovering helicopter.
I was working on Capitol Hill that day. I had just come into work when the second plane hit in New York, and we were all watching TV when we heard the Pentagon got hit. I announced to everyone in hearing range that we should all evacuate. I got out, but instead of heading home, I walked down the Mall to see what I could see.
Man, that was a strange time--no one knew if there would be another attack, and, it turned out, there was, indeed, supposed to be one. Everyone was milling around, fighters were streaking overhead, police cars were racing all over the place--the scene was unfolding as I walked. There was just a palpable sense of what the hell is going on?!? I joined a group of people in the middle of the Mall crowding around a guy with a radio, saying that one of the towers had collapsed. I knew that couldn't be right--surely they meant just the top, right?
After a while, I walked home. My dad had left a message on my answering machine expressing concern, but also saying he'd assumed I was somewhere taking pictures or something. I then called a couple of friends, and we all got drunk.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
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