The Falling Towers

Yvonne Owens, PhD
4 min readSep 11, 2022
My security pass the last year I worked at the WTC

Do you remember what you were doing on 9/11, when you heard the news about the World Trade Centre attack? I was just roaming around my home in Victoria, getting morning coffee, calling my friend Christina, starting to chat, when she said, “Oh, You don’t know.”

When I asked her what she meant, she told me to turn on the news. I did so, just in time to see the second plane hit the south tower. The news started to come in about the…

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Yvonne Owens, PhD

I'm a writer/researcher/arts educator on Vancouver Island and all round global citizen who loves humans even though we're such a phenomenal pain-in-the-ass.