So what was I doing back during 9/11?
We got asked this the other day for a class and even though I denied
giving up my experience in class I do remember the whole situation
and something interesting that came from it.
It was early in the morning, I was in Junior High in my second year,
when I wake up to my dad watching the news, puzzled look, having
breakfast. He was watching el mañanero
with Victor Trujillo, using his persona of Brozo,
who through an unusual serious method gave out the note of what had
just transpired at the WTC in NYC, that there had been a fire, those
were his words, and that the authorities were checking on it to
understand what had transpired. Now it is easier for me to put an
image of Brozo than
actually describing it.
Right... yet he still delivered and did it well and even though the
man has been on and off the news network through the years it is
still refreshing to hear him talk with his typical satirical and
highly spicy commentary.
At school they started to talk about the note on 9/11, that it was a
plane that had crashed on the first tower and that shortly a second
plane had crashed onto the second tower causing panic. While we were
at it, discussing this as teenagers, we came to a conclusion that the
US would go into a war with whichever nation had attacked them, at
this time we assumed it would be somewhere in the Middle East, then
we also assumed that by doing so they would go into a war that would
last for way too long and raise criticism as to what their true
intentions were, which we assumed was Oil. Such uneasy minds we were,
so paranoids yet so right in the end.
Then we got note that the border crossing had been closed due to a
possible terrorist attack through one of them or in a close city to
the border, this is what I recall, so the border line was empty,
which is something you will not see anytime soon.
While thinking about this something
else came to mind, now there´s a problem because I can´t quite put
my finger on the exact date but I remember we were in Junior High
when this happened and it all goes back to the newspaper Zeta
and the death of el
Gato Felix, real name Hector
Felix Miranda, who was assassinated four blocks away from my house.
Back in the day I remember a small statue, a head and ultimately a
plaque which states the following.
Now the untimely death of el
Gato Felix is related to his
articles speaking about one of the most prominent figures of the
city, Jorge Hank Rhon, who has been continuously linked to drugs and
other misdemeanors. So, was he killed by him? Most probably. Why am I
bringing this up then? Well he was the Director of Zeta
but his friend, Blan Cornelias, continued to run the newspaper back
in the day which takes us to me again.
So, we´re at Junior High doing
whatever we were supposed to be doing when there´s a detonation, and
another, then automatic fire which prompted our teacher to yell at us
to get away from the windows, us being in a third floor, then hitting
the floor. What transpired that moment caught me by surprise, there
was this ford explorer near the right side of the road which two pick
up trucks blocking the path. It didn't take them long to run away,
there was a man sitting next to a telephone pole with an M4A1, he
looked bloodied, battered and beyond any possibility of surviving. A
minute or two later a man comes crawling out of the explorer, it was
Blan Cornelias who had just survived another attack by his enemies
one of many he suffered since the death of el Gato Felix.
About his bodyguard, there is something peculiar and disturbing about
that case. I remember passing through that same pole from time to
time to find a candle over a black spot that I don't recall from
early times. Coincidence? Maybe, rather not know or mess with that
which is no more.
Oh and about Blan Cornelias, he died of old age, ironically, at his
house that was just next to the newspaper office.
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