remembering...9-11

i was standing in my office in st. albert, it was early in the morning...and someone in my office told us to turn on the tv to cnn...the north tower was already on fire...i couldn't believe it...

a colleague of mine was to have a meeting on the 9th flr of tower one at 9am that morning and he was running late...i knew he was there and phoned him on his cell phone,i couldn't reach him, so i called his office in ontario and spoke to another colleague...apparently, the colleague in ny was just coming out of the subway tunnel and said he could see the tower and all the smoke...he said he wasn't going any closer and that he couldn't get his ny business contact that he had the meeting with on the phone...

so he was standing on the street corner and the fella in ontario told me that he could hear the sirens on his end of the phone call...we exchanged comments about how unreal this was...our colleague now in ny said he was going to get out of there and commented that he didn't think he would be able to get back to ontario through buffalo that day....just then the second plane crashed into the second tower...apparently our colleague yelled and said there was just a large explosion...but from his vantage point he couldn't tell exactly what happened...and for some reason...his cell phone quit just then and my colleague tried but couldn't get through...all he got was his voice mail...

the next time i spoke with my colleague who experienced 9-11 in manhattan was when he home a day later....

there were many brave people that died that day...none of us should ever forget...