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[slagduroc]

Slag Duroc Police Department rookies have done us proud this week! 🎉 What better way to celebrate than with a strawberry cake party? 🍓🎂

[afshinvlogs-blog]

At 10:28 a.m., there was yet another horrifying rumble as the North Tower buckled and collapsed. A second giant cloud of soot smoke went streaming through the avenues. Again, people ran. Many of them stopped at Canal Street and watched the smoke dissolve. People cried at what they saw: a crystalline sky with nothing in it. Thousands stood, numb, transfixed by what had to be a mirage. Onlookers gathered in clumps and tried to understand. People with cars opened the doors and turned on the radios, and knots of people leaned close to hear what was happening. The news came across of the plane at the Pentagon, the plane in Pittsburgh. "It's like Pearl Harbor," said a middle-aged man at a small parking lot on Canal Street. "It's Pearl Harbor. It's war." Lines five, eight deep developed at pay phones, but many of the phones didn't work. Most of the downtown businesses were closed. People borrowed cellphones, but the heavy phone traffic made communicating hard if not impossible. Countless people spent hours not knowing where a wife, a husband or a child was. For hours, people lingered, uncertain about where to go or what to do in a no longer plausible world. Some felt compelled to leave Manhattan, taking ferries to New Jersey. A man holding his weeping wife headed toward the Manhattan bridge, telling her, "Let's walk over the bridge to Brooklyn. They can't hurt us in Brooklyn." #16YearsLater #neverforget911🇺🇸 #neverforget911 #911legendsneverdie #nyc #backthebluefamily #lawenforcerswife #lawenforcers #lawenforcementofficer #backtheblue💙 #backtheblues #bluelivesmatter💙 #bluelifematters (at New York, New York)