tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post6542117947817800655..comments2024-03-11T07:25:29.540+00:00Comments on Nicola Vincent-Abnett: 9/11Nicola Vincent-Abnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865608045342419682noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-89439683988309770172012-09-11T13:26:17.006+01:002012-09-11T13:26:17.006+01:00Thanks, Keith, very interesting perspective.Thanks, Keith, very interesting perspective.Nicola Vincent-Abnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04865608045342419682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-56330431878230600882012-09-11T13:25:11.327+01:002012-09-11T13:25:11.327+01:00It's a funny thing, life and all. I was 17 whe... It's a funny thing, life and all. I was 17 when 9/11 happened. I remember it well because I didn't really feel anything. Not not saying that I didn't care or that it wasn't important to me. It was too great a thing for me to comprehend was real. Growing up, watching movies and playing video games it seemed that this was just a scene from some sort of fiction. Fast forward 10 years. I now work for a company that provides staffing for the USTA US Open here in New York (That's where I am at the moment actually). On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 it actually clicked. I remember I was walking to church that sunday and passing fire stations with memorials set up to the men and women who died that worked at that particular station. It weighed on me deeply. It was no longer an image on the TV, but a reality I had to deal with. I was a kid when it happened (in all honesty, I'm still a kid really being only 28 and all) but it's real to me now.Fathom1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04277737620095182765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-48517752992918137272012-09-11T09:45:57.042+01:002012-09-11T09:45:57.042+01:00The other day I watched the first half of a docume...The other day I watched the first half of a documentary about the rebuilding taking place on the site of the 9/11 attack. And some of what they are moving to achieve will make for a deeply moving and impressive series of buildings.<br /><br />The craters of the two collapsed towers are being left hollow, transformed into the largest man-made waterfalls with the names of those who died during the attack enscribed in a ring around the memorial.<br /><br />And the new Tower One will be more than 400 feet taller than the previous tower with some ridiculous levels of concrete reinforcement. Apparently it will be the strongest skyscraper ever built to date.<br /><br />Very interesting documentary, its called Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero (I think, memory is sligghtly fuzzy on the latter part of the title).Lysanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15250895148016810730noreply@blogger.com