Ask the 9/11 survivor

[Maeglin]

@Nymysys

@Maeglin

Long time no see, Nymysys. I definitely remember you coming in for the weekend, just not going to Brooklyn.

You almost had me convinced that J and I went while you did something else, but that truly didn’t seem possible. This only proves your powers of mind control haven’t weakened with age.

I am actually kind of shaken up by this lacuna in my memory. I even mentioned this to my wife. She told me “of course you went to the picnic. You also went shopping and got a new pair of boots that weekend.”

Obviously we hadn’t even met in 2001 but I had told her all about the weekend later. Time to start eating the gingko nuts off the ground.

[rowrrbazzle]

vix, did you ever have any contact with Rescorla, even just during a fire drill? Care to briefly give any impressions you had?

@Baker

vix, on the History Channel there has been a program shown about a Morgan Stanley guy who had a plan to evacuate everyone, a security head I think, who stayed behind to make sure all the MS people got out. You mentioned a guy who was helping, and didn’t make it. Might this have been the same person? I won’t give the whole name here, but his surname began with R.

@vix

Baker - I’d like to see that show about Rescorla. I actually have a copy of the book about him somewhere, but I haven’t read it.

The book may be Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart. In fact, I got it from the library for the third time a few days ago. I should just buy the book. And everyone should read it. You can preview portions of it at Amazon and Google Books.

The program is probably The Man Who Predicted 9/11. There’s a clip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA8_bteAXqk. Pay special attention at 6:40.

[multimediac17]

@Billdo

My question is about after you moved to Florida and the woman whose desk was right by your office who had a picture of the burning towers on her wall. Did she ever find out that you were there? I know you have much, much greater self-control than I do, but I cannot imagine how you didn’t blow her little mind with that fact at some point or another.

vix, why did this woman have a picture of the burning towers on her wall?

[vix]

[quote=“Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker, post:77, topic:553113”]

I don’t really have a question, but I thought I’d add a little levity to the thread…

[QUOTE]

I do remember! Ten years seems like forever ago. That was just after I moved to Brooklyn. Not sure what was going on with Vince’s surliness in that other thread. Did you piss him off in a GD thread or something?

Foldup Rabbit and interface2x - Thanks for the tips. I’ll have to look for that.

rowrrbazzle - No, I had never met Rescorla. The book I have is indeed Heart of a Soldier. I tried to read it some years back and couldn’t bring myself to do so. I should try again.

multimediac17 - It was a picture she’d cut out of the paper and it showed the WTC on fire with a picture of an eagle or a flag or something like that superimposed over it. She had it up in a “patriotic” display of some sort. :dubious:

[Ellen_Cherry]

Hi vix — so glad you’re still with us. Then, as now (though I’m a moderator now; fear my jackboots!) I’m an infrequent poster, but I of course vividly recall going through that day with my coworkers, Dopers, and the rest of the nation. Whenever 9/11 survivors are mentioned, I always think of you as “my” survivor.

God bless you, and thanks for sharing.