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Re: One World Trade Center

Posted by **travis** on May 4, 2013 at 8:43:53 AM:
In Reply to: Re: One World Trade Center posted by **bon bon** on May 3, 2013 at 8:17:29 PM:

*******Spire raised to top of One World Trade Center - "Freedom Tower"
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*****I was there & watched the whole thing yesterday - very emotional. Very quiet (for NYC) until it reached the top. Then thunderous applause & car horns going off.
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***Great video; wish it was longer.*
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**I was just reading a related article & never knew/or it never occurred to me:
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**When crews raise the final sections of spire to the top of One World Trade Center, the structure will help the skyscraper soar 1,776 feet into the sky, a patriotic reference to the year the Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress. The building currently tops out at 1,368 feet above the lobby level – the height of the original World Trade Center’s North Tower.
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**It was truly an emotional viewing. I lost two colleagues when the Towers came down & two Firemen friends that were 1st Responders to illnesses related to the attack. There was also a 6 hour period during that day that I thought I lost my brother.
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*Sorry for your loss. Glad your brother was ok.


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Must have been horrific not knowing about your brother. Mercifully, nearly all people below the impact did escape.


Although not directly affected by 9/11 in that way, it did leave me with a fear of heights.

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