20 Years ago today i was in Turkey. I was 21 and life was very different. I was on a day trip to Turkey as part of a holiday. I can still picture it so vividly. I was in a Turkish delight shop getting gifts for people and in the corner of the room was one of those big old #sony rear projection tvs you would find in pubs etc. There was a family crowded round it, fixated on what was on there. I glanced at the screen and saw some jumpy news footage of what looked like the twin towers on fire. I thought to myself, the twin towers are fireproof, it can't be them. That night i found a bar & ordered a drink and sat at the bar with many others in silence watching the news reports to find out what had happened that morning in New York. I remember seeing names continuously scrolling across the bottom of the screen of victims. Scrolling almost indefinitely. I scanned in this image (source unknown) from a double page spread of a newspaper, in a way to archive it for the future for some reason. But I'd never done anything with the image though as I thought it wasn't right to, So it stayed on my HD until now. Hopefully using it now will pay tribute to the thousands of people who sadly lost their lives and were affected by it. I will always think back to that day when I see a film or an episode of friends where the New York skyline is featured, pre 9/11. I finally got to go to #NYC in 2010 and made a point of going to the site of the former twin towers - it was before the Memorial Pools that are there now were constructed so we didn't get very close. For me it was one of those moments in my life at that point, that i think will be with me forever and felt i had to go while i was so close. Other images are from that fab trip where i proposed to my wife at the top of the Empire State Building and she said yes! (I haven’t stated any facts or figures, or discussed the military events that followed this terrorist attack, Purely as that’s for someone else who knows more about it to discuss. This is purely my memories of the event and how they’ve stayed with me). https://www.instagram.com/p/CTrUWlIgDnd1EEtjn7_Ry9sRnbb3RuHSnDmRxU0/?utm_medium=tumblr
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