blackagendareport.com - 9/11 and the Great American Decline: "'So, what do you think will happen now?' The question was posed by the taller of two young Israelis, my sole companions in this section of Liberty State Park on the Jersey City side of the Hudson River, the morning of September 11, 2001.
'Everything has changed,' I replied, unaware that the same phrase was simultaneously forming on the lips of millions around the globe.
'Yes, everything has changed,' said the Israeli, looking not at all displeased. He turned to resume taking photos of the great smoking space that had been the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and of the huge, low cloud that drifted across New York Bay to Brooklyn.
My fellow witnesses to the collapse of the second tower were already positioned at the riverbank when I arrived at the scene on foot after having rushed past police who blocked all vehicular entrance to the park. The athletic, military age duo were clicking away with two very expensive-looking cameras. They spoke excitedly to each other in Hebrew - a language I instantly recognized from my two decades as a Manhattanite - but clumsily claimed to be 'Polish' when I asked where they were from. I pretended to believe they were visitors from Poland."
'Everything has changed,' I replied, unaware that the same phrase was simultaneously forming on the lips of millions around the globe.
'Yes, everything has changed,' said the Israeli, looking not at all displeased. He turned to resume taking photos of the great smoking space that had been the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and of the huge, low cloud that drifted across New York Bay to Brooklyn.
My fellow witnesses to the collapse of the second tower were already positioned at the riverbank when I arrived at the scene on foot after having rushed past police who blocked all vehicular entrance to the park. The athletic, military age duo were clicking away with two very expensive-looking cameras. They spoke excitedly to each other in Hebrew - a language I instantly recognized from my two decades as a Manhattanite - but clumsily claimed to be 'Polish' when I asked where they were from. I pretended to believe they were visitors from Poland."
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