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Remember 9/11 2001

Skyline Manhattan
Before 9/11


Today people all over the World remember the tragedy of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. Do you remember that day? I certainly do.

I was living in Vienna/Austria at this time. All of this happend in the afternoon and evening.

At first, a colleague in my office told me that the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York is burning. He showed me a live video stream on CNN.

The twin-towers stood there with smoke coming out, but the video feed was of poor quality that one could not see any details. Honestly, I did not pay much attention. I thought, I had seen that before.

When the WTC had been attacked by terrorists the first time in February 1993, I had been living in New York. Back then, I had gone up to the roof of my office building in Chelsea and had been able to see the “smoking” WTC from quite close. Not on TV, I had seen it live with my own eyes.

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