Just as I wuz teaching my 7 yr.old daughter the nuances of the Cannon ball here on the same dock in Cape cod I  "loin-ed it" on and here you come and  dredge up the PPSD of that dredful time ;

 the plane came down 6th ave and I picked up sight of it around 45 th street 

 it banked so in  the sun that one could see into the piliots window(cock pit )

there I saw a man with a white shirt (business shirt with his back to me )

 and the bank of the plane into the sun  was sufficient enough 

 to see into the passengers windows ;and it was there I saw woman's face with blond hair

 face pressed almost against the glass with a look I will remember to the day i die

Today i am having Chinese tea with my step mother ;we have alot in common as she was 12 years old 

and witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ; she saw the pilots at their controls .

The other part of this story I never tell is that for months I was having dreams ;vivid dreams 

of the building I was working on shaking 

and people running in the streets;leaving behind brief cases and and high heels 

my wife can verify this ,because I asked her and others if NY ever had earth quakes 

and because the dreams were over some months I even sought counseling about it once;

but nothing ever made sense until 911 ;

The Dream : In the dream  the building was shaking and thousands were running in the streets 

I got down from the building but I  was totally alone at mid day in a metropolitan city 

with not a soul to be seen .

Hare is what happened; 

after the second plane hit (which came from Newark) Fbi and the military broke 

into our radio contact and ordered us down and off the building 

I don't know who said we were next ,but that was what the fear and the thinking 

 because If you take down the Pan Am ;.....you take down Grand Central

Osama didn't know that there are 17,000 people who work in the Pan Am 

and because of its thin skin of cast stone 

its even more of a easier take down than the World trade Towers

The thinking was if you take down the Pan Am ,you shut down Grand Central and if you shut down Grand cental 

you shut down  50% of Manhattan . a no brainer 

Ok....the order went for everyone to get down ,but I was missing part of my crew,(2 guys )

 I went back up to search for them but after a 1/2 hr was convinced theyt had vacated .

I went back down by construction stairs to the 12 th floor then another set of construction stairs 

to the Gran Cental upper causeway .

What I didn't know was while I was up searching for the 2 men ; a bomb scare had been called into Grand Central 

,and it and the surrounding neighborhood  of 42 and Vander built had been cleared 

and office workers were  forced to go up to 5th ave or down to 2nd ave which i couldn't see or hear as my radio was in the sahnty 

 Leaving me high and dry over the Grand Central causeway .

I looked over the rail unto Vanderbuilt place and seeing  no-body ..no cars no people .

I began to take notice because this was strange 

 Wearing my hard hat and saftey harness I ran along the abandoned  causeway until I got to

 the front of Grand Central overlooking 42nd st 

and here I experienced the strangest feeling in my life .....

 42nd street the street in the city that never sleeps; 

was devoid of people ,and cars .The only noise that could be heard was the muffled flap of the Americn flag

It was late morning close to 12 meybe 1pm and here I was under the statue of mercury ,

looking out on a city devoid of people and life 

Then suddenly it hit me ,this was my dream;this was the dream that had me waking up in the middle of the night on and off for months 

 I was standing totally alone .in a city devoid of people ..was I was living my dream ?

or would I soon wake up as I always had and ask myself what was that all about 

.. I stood for what seemed an eternity looking up at office windows with lights on devoid of people

after about 5 mins I  peered over the causeway railing again and could see police

 and sidewalk  barricades up by the 5th ave library

 and again the same over at  3rd ave ;but what were they doing there ?

;I dindn't  have time to think much more about it when  a heavily armed SWAT guy came

 running crunched over and pulled me down and over into a service doorway 

,that took us through an abandoned  Grand cental that was totally abandoned an devoid of people .

Later I met my crew at the bar but not before the capt of the precinct

 gave me a dressing down telling me  4 snipers had me in their cross hairs  Py             
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End of BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Digest - 30 Jul 2007 to 31 Jul 2007 (#2007-178)
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