A view from NYC

By DAVIS DUNIVAN

I moved to New York City from Cape Girardeau three weeks ago to finish school. On my daily commute home from Queens to the Bronx, I cross over the 59th Street Bridge and get a great view of the Manhattan skyline.

I wonder what it would have been like to see those two giant towers poking out on the end of the island, looming over everything else.

I'll never know.

I never got to see the Twin Towers, but I've heard stories. Everyone seems to have their favorite anecdote recalling the towers and what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

On that day, I was in Missouri, in a trade-school video production class in Sikeston. In the classrooms we watched the towers fall, over and over.

One girl complained loudly: "Why are we watching this? Who cares about some stupid people who died all the way over there?"

But here in New York, almost everyone seems to know someone who was injured or died that day. So if you ever wonder why we should care, come to New York.

Don't come to take pictures or buy T-shirts or gawk. Talk to some people who lived through it.

Davis Dunivan is a Stoddard County native who is studying English and jounalism at Queens College in New York City.