Today is September 11.
I'll never forget that day. I was twenty and I was at the CSC to take exams in place. It was the first time, I did not know that there were two others. I was writing a story. Finish, I give, I go out. I am meeting with Francis, who had accompanied me in the morning in the car and we go to his house in Cerveteri. Holes in the highway, even walk the four or five hundred yards that separate us from the first distributor and thus ruin the rim. The attendant, a bald guy with the goatee, you change the tire. We put ourselves in the car and arrive at your destination. There is not much traffic. We pass the large glass door and the grandfather of Francis - Francis himself - sitting on the couch, watching us and, with that half grin excited about those who do not realize, says: "Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers ". "What the fuck!" is the only answer we can give ourselves. We turn around and look the smoke coming from the buildings. The questions are endless: who? when? Why? how? now what? The rest of the day turns into an obsessive desire to spy on a building dies, the obsessive desire of observing everything, not to miss anything. Those shots that day forever changed our audio-visual imagery. So live. I remember my phone calls to Elisa. It 'was the first time I got really scared. Fear over the world because it was golden and happy where I lived throughout my youth. Fear of not knowing how it would be tomorrow. A month before I was on those towers. This thought continues to cause goose bumps. I have some footage from the World Trade Center. Not I have more magazines. I remember taking a picture of a girls on top. She was beautiful the view from up there. If I close my eyes I remember it still. The chaotic city that moves your feet, the Statue of Liberty far out at sea. For a moment was to feel like God
Seven years have passed. It 'just not forget what happened. I do not care who was in reality, if Bin Laden or, as someone else, the Bush administration. I only remember the lives of people who have died in there because that day one of us has gone with them. Forever.
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