World Trade Center (1980)

I wish I could have seen them, God Bless The USA.

This is sad. Its sad to see things like this that represent and stand for things we once knew and loved. God Bless

I was luck enough to go there 3 weeks before it got destroyed.

It makes me sad to see this. I remember seeing The Towers go down on the news. What a frightening scene.

This is a story I'm often spooked to tell: the last and, to my recollection, only time I was ever at the WTC Twin Towers was on August 18, 2001.
You read right. I arrived at the North Tower (via the PATH train) just more than two weeks before the Towers met their untimely demises...and completely by accident. Every time that I've gone to NYC to my favorite nighttime haunts, my choice of transportation had always been the reliable PATH train, and my choice of direction had always been the 33rd Street line. Yet, somehow, as if by an act of fate, this was the very first time that I'd ever taken the only other line into the city, the WTC line.
Well, of course, I didn't think much of it at the time. I just made the most of it and decided to stop at the Sbarro's in the Tower's ground floor shopping mall for dinner. Then, afterwards, I headed straight for my destination towards East Village. Looking back on it today, though, it still seems ominous. And yet I can't help to think that, in a way, I was also fortunate to have had the chance to visit what has long stood as a monument to worldwide friendship and cooperation. Seeing it all go down so tragically may have symbolized the turning point for both ideals.

I knew absolutely nothing about the World Trade Center until September 11, 2001.

I HATE it when after 9/11, most references to the WTC had to be removed from older TV shows and movies broadcast on TV!

You know it's funny, when the World Trade Center was standing many people disliked it. They felt the towers were too geometric and boxy. Now, after 9/11, everyone misses it and wishes it was still standing at the foot of Lower Manhattan. I've lived in New York my whole life and my dad worked down on Wall Street for 24 years. The firm he worked for had offices at 5 World Trade Center and used to hold it's annual Christmas parties up in "Windows On The World", the spectacular resturaunt on the 107th and 108th floors of the North Tower. I'm moving to Lower Manhattan this spring and cannot wait until the Freedom Tower is completed so that my children can enjoy the greatness of capitalism as I enjoyed as a child when my dad first took me to those towers.

Not very long ago, I walked around lower Manhattan. I stood in the very shadow of these two ominous towers. I've stood at the very top of these towers and gazed out at the City of New York; all around me. It made me think of the line from a song: "On a clear day, you can see forever".

This past summer, on my way to catch another train to Coney Island, I stopped by the new World Trade Center PATH Station. Just looking around at this massive crater where two very tall towers once stood left me with feelings beyond words.

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Before 9/11/2001, I did have dreams of going onto both WTC towers. After that, my dreams were over and history.

After George W. Bush's term is up, I hope that the next presedent's administration will continue the War on Terrorism. Otherwise more terrorism will prevail.

Whenever that WTC Freedom tower is built, I plan on visiting it when it's done being built.

Damn terrorists. Never did get a chance to go there, but I'll never forget it's significance in American history. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

I will never forget.

I really missed that building. World Trade Center was one of the tallest buildings ever in New York City. Sadly, it's been gone since 9/11. It's been 5 years since it was gone. Never been forgotten.

Why? Why did such have to happen?

Well that's sad.