what's going on there?

From: magrysbo at shu.edu on 2001.09.14 at 01:42:30(7487) I could see the twin towers on my way from Cliffwood Beach to work in South Orange this past Tuesday. It was about 9:30 or 9:40 am here when I saw them, looking northeast over the Raritan Bay at the southern portion of Manhattan as I was driving over the Edison Bridge. At first I had heard on the radio that an airplane had struck, and I thought that it must have been a light aircraft, but as the view came up I saw a great deal of smoke pouring out from the top portion of the buildings. I was horrified to hear that it was a jetliner, and then another one. As I reached the Seton Hall campus I ran up to my building and to the radio in the lab and also put on msnbc.com on the computer. Manhattan is about 16 miles east of here but can only be seen from the tops of buildings. The traffic north and east of here was horrendous and totally stopped at the New Jersey state border with New York state. +More The full reality of this occurance only just struck me yesterday. Among the shock I experienced was hearing that as many as 10,000 lives may have been lost and also the realization these buildings had been a familiar part of my landscape since childhood; although distant, marking the spot where Manhattan lay. I only hope that justice may come so as to prevent any more of these brutal acts from damaging and wiping out so many innocent lives. Bonaventure

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