Memories from Russia
1. "I was working on Tverskaya Street in Moscow when someone local named Yuri came and said that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center in New York. We all thought that he had a really poor and distasteful sense of humor.
Then we saw it on RT, the local news channel. The second plane hit and we realized Yuri was, for once, was being serious.
It was late in the afternoon in Moscow. The ride on the Metro that night was surreal. Many, many Russians asked if I was American, I guess I just 'looked' the part. They offered their sincere condolences. People I had never before met and would probably never see again were offering their sympathies and outrage over the situation.
The next day at the American Embassy in Moscow, the street was impassable from all the flowers left there by Muscovites in memory of those killed in the incident.
It made a deep impression upon this world traveler…"
- Martin L.
Then we saw it on RT, the local news channel. The second plane hit and we realized Yuri was, for once, was being serious.
It was late in the afternoon in Moscow. The ride on the Metro that night was surreal. Many, many Russians asked if I was American, I guess I just 'looked' the part. They offered their sincere condolences. People I had never before met and would probably never see again were offering their sympathies and outrage over the situation.
The next day at the American Embassy in Moscow, the street was impassable from all the flowers left there by Muscovites in memory of those killed in the incident.
It made a deep impression upon this world traveler…"
- Martin L.
2. "I went to a video games club, popular at the time everywhere in the country. Me and my friend discovered a game called Ace Combat and played it all day.
Upon my arrival back home my father told me,
'Son, American was bombed to pieces.'"
- C. K.
Upon my arrival back home my father told me,
'Son, American was bombed to pieces.'"
- C. K.
3. "I was a kid, sitting at home and watching cartoons. Suddenly they cut to footage of a smoking skyscraper. I tried changing channels, but it was the same on all of them!
I got upset and stopped watching- had no idea what actually happened that day."
- Nikita Baikin
I got upset and stopped watching- had no idea what actually happened that day."
- Nikita Baikin