2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Seriously - was Wall Street attacked on 9/11? [View all]mopinko
(70,280 posts)the whole area was a mess. the wall street subway station was closed for a long time. many financial institutions had offices in the towers, not just cantor fitzgerald.
this is some really stupid hair splitting you are trying to do here.
stated reason? it was the world TRADE center. it was manhattan. it was wall street. i am sure bin laden had many things in mind with the bombing, and striking the american economy was undoubtedly one.
i have no problem w hillary's comment. it was nothing like ghooliani's chest pounding. as the senator from new york, yes, she would have had a lot of contact and done a lot of work with "wall street" to get things back on track. there is no reason she should be ashamed of that. both the broader meaning of wall street in the economy and the granular meaning of the lost jobs, the disrupted families, and yes, the dust. it wasnt the dust bunnies under your bed. it was a thick coating of nasty powdered buildings, concrete and glass and vaporized people. it smelled of death. it was a huge job to clean it up.
jeebus. short memories around here.