Watching 9/11 live

I stood at the waters' edge near my home in Hoboken, watching the plumes of fire and smoke spewing from the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan. In my 27 years, I never thought I'd ever see anything like it. It was unreal-more like a disaster movie or terrible dream. But it was real, all right. Here was another Holocaust happening right before my eyes. The towers were the furnaces, and the smoke covering the city must be carrying the ashes of so many dead