And now they're gone....
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Manhattan, 7/2000 Keywords: Empire State Building / September 11 / Statue of Liberty / World Trade Center | |
| The twin towers overlooking lower Manhattan.... Miss Liberty in the distance... | ||
WTC
11 July 2000 | ||
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| Another look at the Twin Towers.... | ||
Twice as high as anything....
11 July 2000 | ||
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| They were twice as high as anything else in the area.... 400 meters into the sky...... | ||
Last flight before everything changed....
10 September 2001 | ||
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| Originally I was going to fly in the morning on the 11th, but that turned out to be too early, so I took a plane the night before. The plane was almost empty, it was such a pleasant quiet trip.... The next morning I woke up and got to the lobby of the hotel where people were crowded around televisions showing CNN.... My body was shaking and I thought I was having a nightmare and waiting to wake up.... | ||
Half Mast at Colorado Capitol
12 September 2001 | ||
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| All the flags on half-mast, the city quiet, I went for a walk.... | ||
Ready to broadcast
12 September 2001 | ||
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| Reporters were stationed all over the place at buildings and airports... Ready to give an immediate report when something new would happen.... | ||
Puts everything into perspective
14 September 2001 | ||
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| Driving for two days across America and seeing those amazing rock formations that have been there for thousands of years put the events of September 11 slightly into perspective..... It surely helped me.... | ||
Business as usual
15 September 2001 | ||
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| Every single Casino had huge 'God Bless America' advertisements on them (see also other photo from that day), but it still was business as usual in Vegas when we were passing through.... | ||
Secret Capital of the US
15 September 2001 | ||
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| Every single Casino had changed their advertisements to 'God Bless America' and 'One Nation Under God'. God should be replaced by the green dollar of course.... The Radio said things like 'take your mind off this weeks events, go and buy something nice for yourself'..... I found all of that slightly obscene, knowing I was going to return two weeks later..... | ||
Two weeks later....
29 September 2001 | ||
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| ...we were back in Vegas.... Surprisingly the NYNY hotel, a fake collection of all things NYC serves as a wall where people leave flowers, messages and roses.... in honor of the people in NY.... | ||
Chaos in the Airports Pt. I
30 September 2001 | ||
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| So this is the queue in front of the security gates. The queue is one and a half hours long.... Never saw so much chaos.... And this is more than two weeks after the incident of September 11.... | ||
Chaos in the Airports Pt. II
30 September 2001 | ||
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| If you were checking in luggage, the queues were far more than 3 hours.... and then you still had to pass the security queue which took us almost two hours.... and maybe like those on the photo you had to have your entire luggage opened and unpacked.... piece by piece..... | ||
Parking spot
22 November 2001 | ||
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| The picture doesn't do the atmosphere of this place justice. I have never seen so many planes.... This is just a small part of the overall area in which a hundred planes were parked, now not needed due to the airlines having cut back their schedules. Planes from KLM, Continental, Lufthansa, etc.... Very eerie... | ||
Blocked Road
19 April 2002 | ||
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| Before last September, there was no view to the sky from this place.... | ||
Ground Zero
19 April 2002 | ||
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| Eerie.... Nothing is left to remind you of the former twin towers... Just a whole in the ground. Looks like any construction site... Were it not for the many posters in the area.... | ||
The Sphere
19 April 2002 | ||
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| Fritz Koenig's sculpture... Once buried under the rubble of the Twin Towers, the sculpture has now found a new temporary home in Battery Park.... | ||
People at the Sphere
20 April 2002 | ||
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| I have a special link to the sculptor Fritz Koenig.... He was a pupil at my former highschool (Dom-Gymnasium in Freising) and also for our school he built several sculptures, including the fist in our Aula... I will put some photos of his sculpture up.... | ||
Gap in the Sky
20 April 2002 | ||
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| Gap in the sky over Manhattan... | ||
Photos of the missing
20 April 2002 | ||
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| Just after September the 11th, the city was plastered all over with posters of people missing... Some of the posters remain here in Grand Central.... | ||
The missing and the dead
20 April 2002 | ||
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| Some photos of posters when peope were looking for their loved ones, full of hope and descriptions.... When all hope was lost, the city was covered in a second wave of posters.... Same photos, but with poems and declarations of love and loss.... | ||
Happiest moments
20 April 2002 | ||
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| The photos of the missing were never passport photos... They were photos of the people at their happiest, at weddings, parties, holding babies.... That is how people want to remember them, not as statistics or how they spent their last day... Terribly sad... | ||
Midnight at Ground Zero
21 April 2002 | ||
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| The light shining is where the workers were continuing to remove rubble all night, 24/7.... The gap is so visible, when you look at earlier photos of the World Trade Center taken from the Empire State Building.... | ||
Safety measure
18 July 2002 | ||
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| Spot the difference | ||
Pentagon
21 September 2003 | ||
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| The rebuilt area at the Pentagon where American 77 hit it on September 11th. | ||
Back at Ground Zero
23 September 2003 | ||
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| Roughly one and a half year after I went there, back at Ground Zero. Like a wound, it's slowly healing over... | ||
Ground Zero
23 September 2003 | ||
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| Already a memorial and tourist site.... | ||
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Amanda SpiteriMalta / Monday, 4th February 2008 | ||
i m very sry | ||
Kendall Moreillonnew albany / Sunday, 17th September 2006 | ||
To all who lost ther lives. | ||
ebonyohio/tuesday / Tuesday, 12th September 2006 | ||
why do people act like it was yesterday and like people like stell crying about it like peple stell crying stell this day. | ||
Tammynebraska, september 7th / Thursday, 7th September 2006 | ||
keep strong, take a day at a time, one day each of you who lost someone will be together again, my prayers go to all of you on this day, may god bless you all | ||
AllisonAlbany, NY / Thursday, 7th September 2006 | ||
It's been five years and it still feels like it was just yesterday. People are still crying and will continue for years to come. All of the heros from that day will never ever be forgotten and we will never forget September 11, 2001 | ||
lover 101livingston, texas / Saturday, 29th April 2006 | ||
these are great pictures. it hard to sit here thinking about this same day over and over agian the twin towers are always apart of me and the usa no matter what.... | ||
tiffenylivingston, texas / Friday, 28th April 2006 | ||
these are great pictures and im doing a school history porject and i was wondering if i could use some of them for my persentation please. thank you | ||
wormbaby31@yahoo.comcalifornia sierras / Tuesday, 18th April 2006 | ||
i have been looking for a picture of an aerial flight over ground zero at night with those two bright blue lights shining into the air. its creepy, but i feel i can let go of the pain. but, my question was, if anybody has seen or taken a photo as described above could you email it to meNULL or tell me where i can find it. thank you | ||
molly goodwinUnited States / Tuesday, 4th April 2006 | ||
i can't stand when one of my friends say "you should have saw the cool pic i saw of 9/11 last night!"i really get annoyed by it!actually i was gonna cry when i heard what had happend!!! who ever agrees with me GOD BLESS YOU!!! | ||
Arriva Gordon (flirtyreeva@aol.com)Reno,Nevada / Saturday, 24th December 2005 | ||
I am SAD. I love New York. | ||
TriciaIllinos / Sunday, 28th August 2005 | ||
I really feel bad about every body who died that day and I will remember them for the rest of my life. | ||
Stuart McGregorCanada / Sunday, 24th April 2005 | ||
Techincally speaking the slide titled, "Half Mast at Colorado Capitol 12 September 2001" should be titled "Half Staff at ..." The reason being that a mast is on a ship, a staff on land (wrt to flas). | ||
Nicole ostergenRedding california / Friday, 3rd September 2004 | ||
Even though I have never been to New York I feel great sympathy. They will always be rememberes. | ||
Carly PyeAustralia / Sunday, 12th May 2002 | ||
i just looked up sept.11 and then i realised we have the same last name..maybe we're related?email me: Carls@crazysexycool.com-remember the capital C on carls | ||
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