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Say what you want about the quality of architecture, it doesn't change the fact that they were the mightiest skyscrapers ever built.
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But that's what was ultimately so terrifying about 911. They LOOKED like mighty buildings...but they were held up by a fairly flimsy outer steel skin. Inside there were huge spaces with nothing but dry wall.
And it showed when they fell into a pile of dust only six stories high. SIX STOREYS!
As the tight rope walker Phillipe Petit said after they fell: "Where did they go?"
I think a lot of shocked people including myself said the same thing: "110 storeys of mighty skyscraper just crumbled into dust. Is this some kind of magic trick? Or a huge mirage? Am I dreaming?
God, I remember it so well and thinking those very thoughts.
Thank god that no other tall skyscraper was ever built that way and never will be again.