Where Were You...

[The Iceman 6]

I was on the top floor of 3 Times Square (Reuters Building) watching in horror. Our building was evacuated real quick. Walking home to U. E. Side, saw the North tower buckle. Was on 45th & 5th, saw it clear as day, couldn't believe it. Eerie quiet, people praying, others crying, most just dumfounded. Proceeded to walk to a good friend's house who worked in the N. Tower, just waited for him to get home, he did, he left everything there and just left WTC, phone, wallet, car keys, he just knew to get out. He told me he left immediately when he saw a bunch of paper's flying around. Then I went home to my then pregnant wife and had a few drinks for both of us. Lost of few Instinet colleagues that day. That night, all up and down First Avenue, everybody had candles out, it was a sight I'll never forget. Rollerbladed with a friend downtown the next day to help out, do anything, give blood, whatever. HEAVY concentration of military, police, fire, and first responders. Never forget there was man with a spray painted sign that read "You Made Us Stronger." My friend whose a FF from New Haven made it to the site and couldn't believe the amount of shoes/sneakers at the recovery site, that's all he kept talking about, the empty shoes/sneakers. RIP

Ice

[JakeF]

I was at Kansas City International Airport that morning with my wife, waiting to board a plane to L.A. on business. The airport monitors happened to be tuned to a news channel and we saw the footage of the first building smoking as we boarded the plane. At that time they weren't sure what had happened and our flight took off as usual.

About 30 minutes into the flight, we suddenly started decending quickly and we all knew something was wrong. The airline crew didn't say anything until we were on final approach to land in Oklahoma City,,, then they broke the news of the details. Everyone was real quiet,,,, stunned. After we got off the plane and into the very crowded airport, I booked it for a rental car counter but they were all sold out by the time I got there. My secretary ended up driving down from Kansas City the next day to pick us up, and we spent that day in a hotel room watching the news and praying.