New York
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into my mind. The building Pey
ton worked in was attached to the
WTC by a footbridge, the same
footbridge we had walked through
just weeks before.
After two hours on the tarmac
and another half hour taxiing, my
nerves were shot. I went to stay
with a friend of my mom’s in
Chicago and finally spoke to Pey
ton about 2 p.m. He was fine. He
had seen the towers burning on
his way to the subway, and short
ly after feceived a phone call
from a colleague explaining what
had happened and telling him
not to go to work.
% His life and the city were forev
er changed. The office building
where he worked is now the
tallest one standing at ground
zero. In the weeks that followed,
the company he works for,
Lehman Brothers, temporarily re
located to hotel rooms in Times
Square and purchased a new
building at the north end of the
square, which the investment
bank will move into in 2002.
On Nov. 9, I went back for my
first visit since Sept. 11. Peyton
and I spent a wonderful weekend
together and decided on (what
should have been) my last day to
go to ground zero. It was the two
month anniversary of the attack,
and Veterans’ Day, so there were
many people at the site, including
President Bush.
People can’t get very close to
the rubble of the buildings. There
are police standing guard to make
sure people don’t get through the
barricades, but the destruction is
visible.
Walking around ground zero is
intense. Flowers, candles, pictures,
hats and T-shirts hang on the chain
link fences set up to keep people
away from the debris. A bike, un
doubtedly belonging to a victim of
the attacks, is still chained to a
post, dusty from Sept. 11. Its
spokes are stuffed with flowers.
When we got back to Peyton’s
apartment, I asked him how it felt
to see ground zero.
“It felt like a part of the city was
missing,” he said. “Like my part of
the city was missing.”
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ready to pack and catch a cab to
LaGuardia Airport. Not half an
hour after rolling out of bed, Pey
ton’s roommate, another Universi
ty alumnus, Stephen Tachouet,
called and told us to watch the
news: Another plane had crashed
in New York. My stomach
dropped, and I got all shaky. Not
again, not terrorism, I prayed.
We watched the news for a bit.
The crash had happened less
than an hour before, and the
news was mostly just anchors
playing a guessing game. In an ac
tion frighteningly reminiscent of
Sept. 11, the airports were shut
down, although this time only for
a few hours. My flight was can
celed, so I stayed in New York an
other day and returned home
Tuesday.
My travels to New York have
been anything but uneventful.
Just a couple weeks ago I received
a letter from United Airlines,
thanking me for my “patience,
endurance and understanding”
on Sept. 11. As if I could have felt
anything else.
Erin Cooney is a freelance reporter for the
Emerald.
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