Simon Sinek

So we just thought it was an idiot and a Cessna.

And I went to work.

And people started to talk about it on the bus.

I was taking the Crosstown bus, like, you know, did you see what happened?

And by the time I got off the subway on 14th Street, because, you know, media disappears under the ground, now there were people sitting on the sides of the street listening to radios in their cars.

And at this point now, we started to realize this was terrorism.

So we started to recognize what it was pretty quickly, but we didn't know what the implications were.

And we also didn't expect the buildings to fall down.

You know, it was a weird flaw in how the buildings were made that made them... Because, you know, most buildings have internal load-bearing structures, and what made the World Trade Center unique was all the load-bearing structures were on the outside.

And so the floors basically floated in the middle.

Wow.

So except for the elevators, you could stand on one side of the World Trade Center inside and look clear over to the side of the building.

It was an amazing building.

And so they collapsed on top of each other when it came down, which nobody knew would happen.

And so I was in constant contact with my sister who worked also in Soho across town.

And we were talking constantly.

And after the second building fell,

I called her up and said, I'm coming to get you.

We're going to go home.

And we lived uptown.