I Will Never Forget!

[Rich Biebel]

My company did some generator service work for the Salvation Army that had a large support station at West and Vesey along with 2 other smaller locations around the site. We were there a few weeks after the attack. We first went to the S.A.'s main site further uptown to get the proper ID badges to be able to go to the site. We drove down the Westside and were greeted by cheering spectators. West and Vesey was just one block from the sight and it's where I got the first view of the "pile"
One other site was at the back of the Church property that was untouched....We were told if we heard 3 siren blasts to run away from the large black building across the street, that " Might" fall.....60 story Millenium Hotel !
The last site was all the way around on the Hudson River side. Up the block was the photo op site where Pres, Bush and others would be brought to. We saw Gov. Pataki one day waving to everyone. Was an unreal experience and unforgettable.....Extreme carnage, burnt smell, papers everywhere, water everywhere, large generators powering buildings, Many, Many armed guards and military, FBI, Police and thousands of people working on beautiful sunny fall days. We also were by the city morgue location with hundreds of pictures posted of those missing.......I hope we never see anything like it ever again...I have never been back there since but really would like to visit the site sometime to see what we can do when we stick together and work at it !