Word: robbason
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Braxton J. Robbason ’97-’98 works at 11 Park Place, three blocks from the World Trade Center (WTC). From his desk he heard a low flying plane followed by a sound “like the the popping of a brown paper bag filled with...
...Robbason ran to the 20th floor roof of his office building, he remembered joking once to his coworkers at BuzzMetrics that if anyone tried to blow up the towers, their office would be crushed. Now he could clearly see the gaping hole where the plane had entered the building...
...Every pay phone had five to 10 people,” Robbason said...
...Robbason was struck by the reems of copier paper blowing around and countless rolls of toilet paper falling like streamers. He saw what he thought were pieces of a building dropping to the ground but then realized they were people. One person trying to climb from one room into another was clinging onto the building before he lost his grip and fell...
After the second plane crashed, Robbason left the building and headed east for safer ground. Four blocks from the towers, he saw a scattering of bricks and the remnants of what appeared to be an engine that had separated from the fusilage of one plane and hit a building at the corner of Church St. and Warren...