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This is very offensive to me. I did have a friend in one of the towers. I wish nobody had been there that day.

I was in almost the exact same spot as Adam in July of 2001. We were waiting to get on the ferry for Ellis Island. The twin towers are behind my friends and me just like they are in this picture of Adam. The friend who took the picture gave it to me and I treasure it. It was an historic, though terrible and tragic day in American history.

Anon 7:23, I'm so sorry you lost a friend in one of the towers. So many people did, and they will never forget it.

Whoa! This is indeed a very significant Adam photo. The first thing I zeroed in on were the Twin Towers right there behind Adam.
Recollecting...I was resting in my long armchair, almost dozing off, after a hard day's work. Then the Twin Towers fuming with black smoke came on the tv screen. Initially I was already quite shocked but never dreamed even in my wildest dream what was to happen next. I witnessed this mammoth ordeal 'live' from the start...13 years already.

What went through my mind was they would be able to douse the fire as it was concentrated at the top; and I saw a helicopter fly past to size up the situation. It went on fuming for quite some time until the inexplicable happened.
My heartfelt condolences to all who have lost someone that historic horrific day.

The picture of Adam, doesn't strike me as offensive, even though you can see the twin towers. It was an horrific day, and so sad, that so many lives were lost. I have a pastor, who was a fireman in CA at the time, and he was sent with a crew to help out. He had to breath in the terrible air, that was filled with cement dust and other things.
He has had to have a lung transplant from the effects of it, and his second lung is badly damaged, but since he is over 62 now, he cannot have another transplant. His days are numbered now. So people may not have realized how far reaching this tragedy went. Many, many people who were helping have had the same lung problems. Adam was having his picture taken like hundreds of other people, never knowing what would happen within a few days. I am glad he was not there when it did happen, because
he would probably never have been able to sing again.

It was a horrible moment in history. Still etched in memory. I think many of us throughout the world have some personal connection to the events in NYC that day..

My husband's young niece was living in NYC, working as a dancer, studying her craft, hoping to make it on Broadway or in some other major capacity, living her dream, and making ends meet by working on a harbor tour boat as a bartender.

She was on her way to work on the subway when the airplanes hit the towers. She boarded the train in Brooklyn on a normal sunny Sept. morning day and emerged from the train to chaos at the World Trade Center.. Like so many, her life was forever changed.

And she was unable to reach her family by mobile phone on the West Coast for many many hours after the attacks to let them know she was alive.. Her parents and the rest of the family were terrified because we knew she traveled to her job literally through the WTC at that time of morning. She was able to make her way to a friend's apt on the other side of the city where she was safe.. and finally able to call to let us know she had survived.

I don't find this photo of Adam or the sentiment stated by the person who posted it offensive.. I agree that I'm glad he was not there on that horrible day, just like I'm also glad our niece survived. I also know people who had friends or family who did not.

I do remember that Adam WAS affected by the events of Sept. 11th, 2001, because the cruise ship he was on, which by then was further up the coast of North America, (just off the Canadian coastline) was unable to come back into the US for a short period of time due to security issues in the aftermath..

I agree with @Anonymous. I wish no one had been there that day, and that it had not happened..

Like so many, I watched the second airplane hit the second tower on TV. Our lives were forever changed at that moment whether we were there or not.. It became obvious that this was no random and bizarre tragedy but something beyond horrific. And unbelievable.. And deliberate.....

Just to be clear, it's not the pic that is offensive to me. I have a very similar pic of me from that same year. Adam isn't the issue. It is the "glad he wasn't there" comment in the face of so many people who don't get to say that about a loved one.

It's a day to never forget those lost and to never forget those who ran to help others. That is where the attention should be, not on tweeting a pic of a performer with a World Trade Center hash tag. IMO it is too solemn and sacred to do something like that. Of all the things tweet today. SMH.

Dee R Gee, thank you. I still think of him often.