World Trade Center 1984
World Trade Center 1984
Originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1
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photo shot by dr glenn losack md
Dr Glenn Losack gets a lot of a raving reviews on his pictures he sent me this one by Alan Smith that I incude here to share with all of you..
Subject: Re: World trade center tower 1 1984
Hi Glenn,
Thanks for the link, I know not whether you took the Hippocratic Oath on graduation, or the Oath of Lasagna, but it seems to me that you honour the basic tenets of either through your photography. I ask myself could I have taken some of these pictures if I had been in the same time and place, and the answer is probably not with the same compassion. I have the same skills with a camera, but what sets your work apart is you are still clearly a physician looking at the world through a lens, treating your subjects with dignity and honesty through your photography. I admire your work tremendously, you have found beauty amongst the lepers, and the dispossessed, whilst the same job done by another could seem voyeuristic, you have done it with love for your fellow man.
I love your photos of Machu Pichu, that is quite a trek, and it was worth every step.
About World Trade Center
The World Trade Center in New York City, United States, (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, mostly designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki and engineer Leslie Robertson and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was initiated in 1960 by a Lower Manhattan Association created and chaired by David Rockefeller, who had the original idea of building the center, with strong backing from the then-New York governor, his brother Nelson Rockefeller.[2] The World Trade Center, New York, like most World Trade Centers located around the globe, belonged to the family of World Trade Centers Association. Prior to its destruction, Larry Silverstein held the most recent lease to the complex, the Port Authority having leased it to him in July 2001.[3] The complex, located in the heart of New York City’s downtown financial district, contained 13.4 million square feet (1.24 million m²) of office space, almost four percent of Manhattan’s entire office inventory at that time.[4]
Best known for its iconic 110-story twin towers (101 usable floors, eight engineering-only “service” floors on top of a lobby which was six[5] stories high and 80′) the World Trade Center was beset by a fire on February 13, 1975 and a bombing on February 26, 1993.
All seven original buildings in the complex were destroyed by terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda[6] on September 11, 2001. Three of the buildings collapsed: One World Trade Center (1 WTC, the North Tower), Two World Trade Center (2 WTC, the South Tower), and 7 World Trade Center (7 WTC). The Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC) was crushed by the collapses of 1 WTC and 2 WTC. 4 World Trade Center (4 WTC), 5 World Trade Center (5 WTC), and 6 World Trade Center (6 WTC) were damaged beyond repair and later demolished. Three buildings not part of the complex were also destroyed: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed by the collapse of 2 WTC. The Deutsche Bank Building and Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Fiterman Hall were damaged beyond repair by the collapse of 7 WTC; these are currently being deconstructed.
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001 at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, Al Qaeda suicide hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the northern facade of the North Tower.[36][37] Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., a second team of hijackers crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower,[37][38] which collapsed and disintegrated at 9:59 a.m. At 10:28 a.m., the North Tower collapsed and disintegrated. At 5:20 p.m., 7 World Trade Center collapsed as a result of damage from the North Tower’s collapse. The four remaining buildings in the WTC plaza sustained heavy damage from debris, and were ultimately demolished.
At the time of the incident, media reports suggested that tens of thousands might have been killed in the massacre, as on any given day upwards of 50,000 people could be inside the towers. Ultimately, 2,750 [39] death certificates were filed relating to the 9/11 attacks, as of May 23, 2007. Of these, 1,614 (59%) were identified from recovered physical remains. 340 Emergency personnel and 60 police officers were killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers. Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, with approximately 2,500 employees in the South Tower and 1,000 in the North Tower.[40] For the following 8½ months, the World Trade Center site cleanup and recovery continued 24 hours a day and involved thousands of workers. The massive pile of debris smoked and smoldered for 99 days.
source wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
my poem
beneath the rubble lies faith
people who still live
will never die
their martyrdom
touching the earth and the sky
humanity the finest religion
in the beholders eye
memories of a nation
that rose from a single cry
long live america
long live americans
a fitting reply
to jehaddi terrorism
that mocks godliness
that mocks mankind
allah ho akbar
a place in heaven
you just cant buy
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