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...Yakima, Wash., the owners of a Shell station panicked last Tuesday night in wake of the New York and D.C. crises and started charging as much as $7 per gallon for gas. The freaking out lasted nearly
Instead of being in the WTC at 8:45, I was still in the subway. No one had heard about what had happened as my train pulled into the WTC station moments after the first attack. I got off of the train but couldn’t get out of the station; there was great confusion as others appeared to be rushing into the station. As commuters tried to push their way towards the exit, a man yelled out that there had been a bomb. The idea seemed so incredible that I thought maybe it was a joke...
...waiting for my train when a prankster called a bomb threat into the station. I found myself once again running frantically out of the building with everyone else. Once we were reassured that it was merely a cruel joke, I returned to the station and boarded my train to Boston, where I was met by my boyfriend and finally stopped worrying that I would never see him again...
...impact of the destruction and tragedy on September 11 instantly jarred the entire nation. Like so many other Americans, Jason E. Whitlow 99, watched the terrible events unfold on television from afar, helpless to stop the fires or hold up the towers. And as reporters on every station endlessly reported the facts of what had happened and cycled through the chronology of the morning events in excruciating detail, the one question that pounded in peoples brains remained unanswered. Who survived? With cell phone connections down and landlines a scarce commodity, the flow of personal information was slow to reach friends...
America does not need hairy-backed war tactics right now, particularly the vigilante kind that resulted in Saturday’s murder of an “Arab looking” gas station attendant. (He was South Asian...