‘It was just smoldering’ - Dawsonville woman recounts witnessing 9/11 in Manhattan - Gainesville Times

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‘It was just smoldering’ - Dawsonville woman recounts witnessing 9/11 in Manhattan

Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. - photo by Associated Press

9/11 — Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. - photo by Associated Press

Diana Delgross was walking toward her office in lower Manhattan 20 years ago when she saw a low-flying plane. It wasn’t long before she was leaving New York on a ferry full of silence and tears, looking back at a smoldering skyline that had been forever changed.