REMEMBERING 9-11/Photos by Erin Kaplan Pictured Below: When America was attacked on 9/11 my website haleisner was still fairly new. My friends who work or aspire to work in news started sending me pictures from Manhattan, reflections and observations to post. Here are some of the pictures from Erin Kaplan who was a freshman at Marymount Manhattan College. She wrote that day I felt numb... very unsafe! and even 13 years later my thanks to Erin and all of those who contributed. You can find several weeks of coverage on the site by going to: haleisner/archivesite/from_field/911_reflections.htm. And, you can read more of the comments of Erin and others. Among the things she wrote: I immediately ran up to my room where I could see the World Trade Center from my window. Huge clouds of black and gray smoke filled the air, and the World Trade Center was no longer visible. My apartment did not have television yet, so I ran to my friend Mikes room to see if he wanted to go down there. Walking to the accident we had no idea of the severity of the crashes. They had shut down the streets, the taxis, buses, and subways were also shut down. Everybody was walking extremely fast, trying to escape the city. People were screaming and crying on the streets, but mostly people were in complete shock. As we walked, a plane flew overhead and everybody proceeded to run for cover. Thats precisely when I knew that this was bigger than anyone could ever imagine. When Mike and I arrived at the scene, there were hundreds of police and they were not about to let us anywhere near the scene. We just stood there in shock staring at the huge clouds of smoke.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:29:40 +0000
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