The things you find…

Every once in a while, I’ve been known to dump out the drawers in my desk, which are prone to fill with all sorts of items. Today, while sifting the flotsam and jetsam, I came across my photo pass from a visit to the World Trade Center, the original one. Here it is:

My visitor pass from the World Trade Center.

My visitor pass from the World Trade Center.

I visited a company I did business with there on the 36th floor the Friday before the attack. The following week, I was aboard a ship and didn’t know for many more days that my friends and business associates all survived. Sadly, many others were not so lucky. I’ll keep this the rest of my life as a tangible reminder of what happened.

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A few days before Sept. 11, 2001…

On September 9, 2001, I left New York Harbor aboard a ship. On the way down the Hudson River, I snapped various photos of the skyline, including the one below (reproduced poorly here, but the original is perfectly clear thanks to ideal weather, a Hasselblad camera, Zeiss lens, and Kodak Ektachrome film). Note the structure in the upper right portion of the frame.

This photo taken Sept. 9, 2001.

Never forget this world is a dangerous place.

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A Cross

While in New York City recently, I paid a visit to the World Trade Center site. There I came upon the famous cross, constructed of the steel beams that were once part of the Twin Towers. Here’s a view of the cross.

I remember arriving at the site six days after the fateful events of September 11, 2001. It wasn’t a pretty scene. Using a Hasselblad 6X6 camera, I took a number of documentary photographs that I keep archived in a secure place. Some weeks later, I returned for more photo taking, including piles of steel beams that were cut into pieces for scrap iron. Sad to see them twisted and mangled. Here’s a close up of the plaque on the cross.

Soon it will be ten years since the tragedy occurred. I’ll never forget that scene. Neither should you. At least one of the key personnel who concocted the nefarious act now has a special place in the deep blue sea, which just goes to prove my old adage: The woods may be lovely dark and deep, but from the ocean comes not a peep.

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