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92nd Floor
FOUND by Seth Meisels
in New York, New York
Found on September 11th, 2001.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
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this gives me chills.
wow.
depressingly inspiring.
can only stare
Wow. That makes me scared all over again. Very sobering to look at.
I can't believe this isn't the most popular find out there. It's incredible.
Very sobering indeed. It darkens my heart just looking at it and thinking about the life that once held that paper is lost.
Yeah, it's very much "An extremely normal day at the office" til you know when it was found...
oh wow.
to me, it's strange that even though this happened six years ago this year, and the news has stopped talking about it, and nobody mentions it anymore, and nobody puts flags on their car windows anymore that i feel exactly the same way as i did on that day, just from looking at a singed, stained piece of paper.
its amazing. And true, hto many doont talk about 9/11 anymore, take a walk down near where the trade center once stood & its almost holy ground. No one speaks louder than a whisper.
I think it's still amazing. Everytime I see flashes of it on television or anything, I am still reminded. It's crazy now that it's in my textbooks.
This gives me chills, even though i live in canada, it still had an effect on me. Its scary to look at something that someone could have seen moments before the planes hit
ahhhhhhhh
chills
chills
chills
Six years later and I remember every second of that morning like it was yesterday. This scorched piece of paper brings all the sadness back.
This makes me so sad,sad,sad.
this is a piece of our history now.
Wow, what a slap in the face.
I love this find because it gets such a reaction out of you..
That is by far the perfect representation of 9-11. A normal day, until disaster strikes. Every time I see a clip of the towers falling I just can't help but look and I have this feeling I can't properly describe. Like sadness, but also amazement. The same feeling I get when I see the afters of a hurricane.
I still remember that day, I was only in the 5th grade, but I remember it vividly. I pray I never forget.
I imagine there are lots of "Founds" out there just like this one from that day. There are probably many people with little scraps pressed into books or tucked away in a treasure box somewhere, since innumerable pieces of paper just like this one floated down from both towers into the streets below. They're chill-inducing, tangible reminders of a day none of us will ever forget, even if we try. In all its simplicity, what a powerful and moving find.
It gave me chills. My parents said they would always remember where and what they were doing when JFK was assasinated. I think this is our generation's JFK. I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing and how it felt when I realized exactly what was going on. I hope we never forget. God Bless America!
it takes my breath away.
wow.
Has it really been 6 years? That I happened to come across this tonight brings it all back.
I can't really say anything that someone hasn't, aready, but this is sad, powerful, and chilling... And a little eerie that it says "accounts payable". Of course, I'm just reading too much into it, as I'm prone to do.
So poignant. Still has the power to make my world stop whenever I see/hear/read about 9/11
I live in the UK, and I remember being in the library when someone came in to say put the news on the radio. When I got home I put on my tv, and stayed sat in the same spot for hours unable to tear my eyes away. It had a big impact on me.
I just randomly typed a word into the search ("foot") and started going back and I absolutely was not expecting this. I hope no one ever forgets how important and awful that day was. I haven't cried about Sept. 11 in a long time until now...
Incredibly ominous.
This brings back that day in such a vivid way. That piece of paper was probably sitting on someone's desk like any other day until . . .
Too bad 9-11 was an inside job... check out www.brasscheck.com
Ummm, how does a burnt peice of paper bring you back to that day? The attacks were certainly a tragedy, but I am seriously livid and pissed that it keeps coming up, over and over again. Let it go people. It wasnt a conspiracy. People have lived through worse. I remember being upset because class that day was basically just watching news coverage ALL DAY. I wanted to learn, not sit there and watch news all day. Grow up America. The whole paper should have been burned. It isnt poingant, it isnt deep, and it certainly isnt meaningful.
Wow, Kira. I find it strangely ironic that a person of your maturity level can tell an entire nation to "grow up" and shrug off a tragedy that killed many of our mothers, fathers, siblings, and friends. Go tell an orphaned child that people have lived through worse than losing both parents at once. I hope that you personally never feel a loss as great as that. Your apathy disgusts me.
The only explanation I have for you your post is possible sarcasm, but I can't see how anyone could find that appropriate.
Puckhog...you're full of shit.
Kira, you are too.
I agree...what are you going to tell the wife who lost her husband or the child that lost a mother? Sorry, get over it.
Get over yourself Kira. You think your two cents is worth reading, hell all I hear is blah blah blah look at me I need attention, blah blah and something something something.
Kira
I am truly speechless at what you have said.
This is not a compliment.
How can people just "let it go"?
How can someone be so cold hearted as to be "livid" at people for having some sympathy for the many brave people who died that day.
That's horrible.
I find a certain comfort in it.
I take from this a certain survivability from tragedy and catastrophe.
I take this as a reaffirmation that Life is a juggernaut, unstoppable, even though lives are fragile and finite.
"I am a leaf in the wind."
Wow - im speechless, strange how remembering that day can make you feel.
Kira you don't mean that. No one could. Some people may want to forget about it because of the memories it evokes, but different people cope different ways. I guess it's your opinion....though sad that you'd so harshly critique others for theirs.
This find belongs in a museum and should be framed. In so many ways it captures the essence of what I felt that day, when I lived in NYC.
On this ominous day, I was thinking about all the people that were lost. Thinking about the amount of information was lost. Thinking how that maybe someone that was lost would be the one to cure cancer, AIDS or something of the like. I wondered what happened to all the paper that was floating in the air. How easy it would have been to just "disappear." This is a good reminder to what was lost that day and what we all lost.
wow the sheet, the reminders and here I thought surfing this site would be a great fun way to start the day. Instead I stumble across this find. Please don't take that wrong.. I'm glad its here, I hope to never forget. I just didn't expect to be have tears land in my cereal. I was feeling one way until I read the comments well one in particular.. Kira's. Girl you have it so wrong and so backwards. That comment just angers me! Innocent lives were lost that day, families destroyed and brave men and women risked their lives. NEVER FORGET THAT! Yes this is a topic close to my heart so I'll just leave it at that.
*sigh* It's been over a year, but I still feel the need to address the little shitstorm stirred up by Kira.
For those directly affected by the attacks, either because they were there and survived or because they lost a loved one, 9-11-2001 is a day that will never be forgotten, nor should it be. If Kira's "Let it go" comment was directed at them, it was extremely cold-hearted.
However, I'm pretty sure she meant the other 300 million of us Americans. If so, she's got a point. Yes, the loss of almost 3,000 innocent civilians is a tragedy, and those people deserve to be remembered. But what about the 2,000 who died in Hurricane Katrina, or the 200,000 killed by the 2004 tsunami, or the 400,000 in Darfur? Why don't so many total strangers get misty-eyed about them?
I'll tell you why. It's diferent when someones attacing your freedoms...and if was very close to home...that's why people feel that it's diffent
Phyre, we have been facing natural disasters and conventional warfare since the begining of human life. Unfortunately, these things are just a part of our existence, and we mourn them and remember them, but we are not so terribly shaken by them when they don't touch our own lives. But 9/11...that was a new level of hatred, and it touched us all because it was an attack aainst an *idea* which
Amanda, they weren't attacking our freedoms. I don't know how anyone comes to that conclusion unless the assumption is made that America = freedom, and anyone who attacks America must be motivated by an opposition to freedom.
shujun, "a new level of hatred?" Really? I'm not disputing that the 9/11 terrorists were driven by hate, but what, exactly, makes those 19 nutjobs more hateful than the Nazis who systematically exterminated six million Jews and millions of others over a period of years, or the Janjaweed militias who broke into people's homes and axe-murdered them in their beds for being members of the wrong tribe? Hate crimes and genocide have been with us throughout human history too.
So, I still don't get why so many people seem to think of 9/11 as the worst disaster ever.