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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: redman555 on September 11, 2010, 09:07:09 AM
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Every time I wake up on 9/11 I remember that morning...walking downstairs and seeing my parents speachless as I got to the tv they told me to go to school, I was so confused and had no idea what happened...every time i see a video of the planes hitting the towers...chills go from head to toe in my body...
All lost this day R.I.P... :salute
-BigBOBCH
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I remember stopping for a break at the store and hearing about it. Then going to the plumbing supply store and hearing another hit. I went home to check the news and sat in front of the tv all morning just sick to my stomach.
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I had slept in and was a bit late for work. When I got up I heard on the radio about a small plane that hit one of the towers. I hopped in the shower, taking probably the fastest quick shower in my life (being I was late for work) and got out and turned on the TV to see more about this plane crash while I got dressed.
About ten seconds later I saw the second plane hit live on TV. I made it to work and my boss was just sitting in his office reading the newspaper. I don't think he even knew what was going on. I told him he really needed to turn on the radio. He didn't believe me.
We were dead all morning and keeping track of events over the radio. When lunch time came around a coworked and I went out and watched on the TV at the restaurant and saw much, MUCH more than we could even begin to guess. We went back to work and there was still no business, so we told the boss we were going home. He never even cared enough to turn on the radio, and I found out later he kept the store open until the normal closing time, despite the lack of business.
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Every time I wake up on 9/11 I remember that morning...walking downstairs and seeing my parents speachless as I got to the tv they told me to go to school, I was so confused and had no idea what happened...every time i see a video of the planes hitting the towers...chills go from head to toe in my body...
All lost this day R.I.P... :salute
-BigBOBCH
Save you hate for the scum bags that did this...
Bastards
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I was in first grade,
everyone was starting to get early dismissals. My mom came the school balling, I had no idea what was going on as they didn't let me watch the news that day.
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If this day each year does not raise your hackles and bubble & boil your hatred for the people who did this to 'US"....did this to America...
There is something wrong...
This was not an attack on America...it was an attack on 'American Life'...
Freedom and self determination, the cornerstones of this nations foundation were attacked...
And that pisses me off to no end...
We can all disagree politically...but no one should accept an attack on our ability and freedom to disagree...or on our ability as individuals to determine our own fate...
That is where I draw the line firmly....
Out
Oneway
PS: They are still out there and determined as ever to destroy our freedom to 'Disagree'...and our choice as individuals to determine our own 'Destiny'....stay vigilant...
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We can all disagree politically...but no one should accept an attack on our ability and freedom to disagree...
If only everyone had this opinion <<S>>
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I remember about 11:30 am, along the East River Park, there was a mass exodus of people walking out of lower Manhattan. There in the middle of the sidewalk was a woman, mid thirties maybe, serving cups of cold fresh water from a tray. She had the most grace and poise of anyone I saw that day. For about five minutes I watched this lady with fascination. People responded to her service and her smile. You could see panic and fear melt off peoples faces when they encountered her. Her humanity, grace, and service to people on the sidewalk was one of many things that make that day so surreal in my memory.
:salute
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So 8 times all total?
Every day I have to report in, I think about it. Every time I look at my bedroom window to the west side I think of it. Every time I talk to a Marine abroad I think about it.
So basically every day.
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Ehhh I don't really remember it I remember seeing it on the news dunno if it was live though and I'm not sure what I was doing...
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I was only in second grade at the time, but I will never forget that day as long as I live.
I spent the first 11 years of my life in Gaithersburg Maryland, about 2 hours drive north-west of Washington D.C. It started off just like any other day. It was in second period that the announcement came over the PA that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The only thing I knew was that a plane crashed, which I didn't think was unusual, as I thought that planes crash every day. I remember the look of shock on my teacher's face when she heard the announcement. They immediately closed school and sent everyone home.
I remember standing outside the school and seeing a girl in 7th or 8th grade crying. At the time I had no idea why. I was just happy to be going home, but at the same time, I felt confused and scared at the same time. I knew that something big had happened, because all the adults were practically panicking.
My mom picked me up at my friend's house and she remembers an F-15 flying back and forth over I-95.
Marine-1 would always fly over my house on its way to Camp David. My dad remembers hearing a helicopter flying towards our house. He ran outside just in time to see this massive, grey CH-53 fly over our house. He could feel the downdraft of the rotors and the helicopter almost ripped the shingles off our house. The F-16s were not much higher. He remembers the scream of the F-16's engines and thought, "Oh my God, this is for real."
I remember staying inside for the next week watching the same images on the television over and over again.
I will always remember that day. I will never forget. I hope that everyone else in my generation never forgets what happened on that awful, awful day.
:salute to everyone who still bears the scars from the day the towers fell.
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I was in my first period class, my teacher came running into the room, his exact words were "We have been attacked". He switched on the TV, and a short while later we saw the second plane strike. I will never forget that day. It sickens me to the very core that anyone would do something like that.
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Was in highschool at Fort Knox when this happened. I was in welding class and when I walked in everyone was watching the T.V. and someone said a plane hit the world trade center. I though it was just a small plane and didn't see the fire and went to welding. I was the only one working at the time the second hit and my friend came out and said you have to see this. I went in and watched. The whole day was a wash all my classes were watching T.V. My parents came halfway through the day and brought me home. Being on a miltary base near the gold vault was intersting they locked down the post and had mobile AA battery's set up outside the gold vault for weeks afterward. Jets would fly so low around you could see the pilot. The field out side the gold vault was a mess from the multiple tracked vehicles that roamed it. Was a sight and experience I wont forget.
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Guys you know we really should have thought about a memorial flight today. I'm ashamed to say I didn't think about it until now. :frown:
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I couldn't fathom it. Then I just felt sorrow for all the victims who did nothing wrong except to show up to work.
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I was playing AH1 at the time and the text buffer went banans with people talking about it. I thought people were telling a bad joke until i turned on CNN just in time for the second plane. The next few hours on AH with the tv in the background was really wierd as the stories and peoples ideas about what had happened went across the text buffer. I think we watched CNN and other news channels for about 24 hours straight after that.
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Every time I wake up on 9/11 I remember that morning...walking downstairs and seeing my parents speachless as I got to the tv they told me to go to school, I was so confused and had no idea what happened...every time i see a video of the planes hitting the towers...chills go from head to toe in my body...
All lost this day R.I.P... :salute
-BigBOBCH
Same here, imagine having birthday on September 11Th.
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I was coming down the stairs and my wife was upstairs getting ready for work. I was out of school that day and getting our 5 year old...now 13 ready for kindergarten. She yelled downstairs for me to change the channel on the downstairs TV to the Today show as they were reporting live about a "small plane" that had just hit the first tower. You could see this massive fire building up and I immediately dismissed the small plane idea.
About that time one of the news cameras picked up this other jet liner streaking in and then it hit the second building. My son said..."Daddy bad people just killed a bunch of people." The thought from me was oh my god terrorist attacks...then shortly after they reported a third plane was missing and then they reported the one hitting the Pentagon...I went to work and we were expecting our owner from Germany to arrive that morning but instead we got a call from him that they had grounded his aircraft in Montreal or Toronto and he didn't know if/when he would be arriving. 2 days later they flew him back to Germany. Anyway we all sat around in the office and the phone never rang and we didn't work. My boss sent us all home around lunch time and said go be with your families...my wife's employer did the same thing.
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I was only in second grade at the time, but I will never forget that day as long as I live.
I spent the first 11 years of my life in Gaithersburg Maryland, about 2 hours drive north-west of Washington D.C. It started off just like any other day. It was in second period that the announcement came over the PA that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The only thing I knew was that a plane crashed, which I didn't think was unusual, as I thought that planes crash every day. I remember the look of shock on my teacher's face when she heard the announcement. They immediately closed school and sent everyone home.
I remember standing outside the school and seeing a girl in 7th or 8th grade crying. At the time I had no idea why. I was just happy to be going home, but at the same time, I felt confused and scared at the same time. I knew that something big had happened, because all the adults were practically panicking.
My mom picked me up at my friend's house and she remembers an F-15 flying back and forth over I-95.
Marine-1 would always fly over my house on its way to Camp David. My dad remembers hearing a helicopter flying towards our house. He ran outside just in time to see this massive, grey CH-53 fly over our house. He could feel the downdraft of the rotors and the helicopter almost ripped the shingles off our house. The F-16s were not much higher. He remembers the scream of the F-16's engines and thought, "Oh my God, this is for real."
I remember staying inside for the next week watching the same images on the television over and over again.
I will always remember that day. I will never forget. I hope that everyone else in my generation never forgets what happened on that awful, awful day.
:salute to everyone who still bears the scars from the day the towers fell.
Wait, how were you in second grade at age 11 but talked to 7th and 8th graders? Maybe sixth grade? But anyway, I was in Kindergarten and when it happened, I had no idea, and didn't until a few days later.
-Penguin
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If you read my post I said that I saw a 7th or 8th grader crying. I never said I talked to her. Also I said that I spent the first 11 years of my life in Maryland. I never said that I was 11 in the second grade.
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I was fighting a house fire near Omaha Nebraska. We heard a plane flying over and looked up to to see air force one fly over with fighter escorts. It was flying the President into Offut. This of course was after the towers had come down sounds strange but it was a welcome break from watching the news took my mind off of what was happening for a short time.
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If only everyone had this opinion <<S>>
You got that right Strokes...
On this day each calendar year...and like our patriarchs who never forgot December 7, we likewise should never forget what happened that fateful day..in New York at 8:46:40 EST Tuesday 11 September, 2001
....As Atta drove flight 11 in to tower #1...
I will go to my grave hating him and what he stands for...
And I swear upon the air I breath...that If i have a clear and confirmed shot on a scumbag like him I would take it without reservation...splitting his head open like a canoe would give me pleasure beyond belief...
The hatred in my heart for men like him knows no bounds....
If your not Angry beyond belief..your not paying attention...(Strokes excluded..he gets it)...
Out
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I will always remember this wicked day in history. i woke up that morning checking the news as usual <which i shudnt>, OMG! this cant be happenening, kept watching then saw the 2nd plane hit, cried man knowing innocent people are in there. <S> to all the families who lost loved ones.
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I was a senior in H.S. I was going to the only class I had my senior year. When I walked in the tv was on and I seen what was happening. I turned right around, left school, and went to my national guard unit to see what I could do.
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We were at the shop. We announced over the intercom what had happened and we let anyone that felt the need..... to go home. We shut the shop down and let our employees watch the news as it happened.
I had my wife get my daughter out of school. At the time they did not know who or what would be hit next. It was a strange feeling.
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I deliver the daily newspaper. i have 6 different papers to deliver. guess how many stories were honoring or even REMEMBERING September 11th? One... one story out of all 6 papers had a story about the attack and it was on the front page of the Boston Globe. The NYT, the Boston Herald, the Barron, the Metrowest Daily News, and the Wall Street Journal all had no stories that i have seen to remember Sept. 11th. This made me sick...
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I was Working in the Factory at 3:30 PM
a woman came in shocked and told me that Palestinians with Planes Attacking New York over 40 000 people dead.
I said Palestinians even don't have money for the fuel for planes that must be a Joke.
People Leaving Mashines and went to the only 1 TV in Plant.
I folowed them than I saw that the second Tower explode,I was thinking on Billy (Spirithoula) she worked 24 floor south tower and Nico my best friend he was FMB manager in Marriott Hotel.
10 minutes later German Police came and escort American workers to they Homes.
it took till 7 am that we had a massage from Billy from Nico I knew that he dint work Tuesdays and Stayed in Brooklin
I was one only in Neighborhood who had internet and I waited with Billy's Brother and Father the Hole night in front of Yahoomessenger.
I contact i guy out of NY he Drove to 1 in NY who had a Motorbike,he drove to New jersey and gave a masage to her from her Father he drove back told the 1 guy he went to the next working internet shop and told us that she is OK.
on DEC 12 2001 Billy died By a car accident in Germany on her namesday,cause front driving car puled cellphone and Braked without reason.
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If you read my post I said that I saw a 7th or 8th grader crying. I never said I talked to her. Also I said that I spent the first 11 years of my life in Maryland. I never said that I was 11 in the second grade.
Oh, so that is seperate from this, ok, now I get it. It was just that you saying that you were in second grade came right before you spent the first 11 years of your life in Maryland. Just a bit confusing is all.
-Penguin
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It's cool. I can understand the part about it being confusing.
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I was at work at an apartment complex. Driving from one unit to another I heard of the attack on the radio. I thought it was a joke because that is how morning shows are. I got a call on the radio to come to the office where we all spent the next several hours glued to the TV. Nothing got done that day! Management even bought lunch and invited us back with our families for dinner along with all of the residence of the complex.
200 plus people gathered around the pool area and mourned the loss of those who didn't make it. It was a special day in it's own way despite the pain.
:salute
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I was in a meeting when My secretary knocked on the door and came in.. she looked at me and said excuse me But I think you need to turn on the TV....
That image will be with me for the rest of my life....
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two things that still make me cry when I see them..
the second plane hitting.....(the moment we knew)
and the tower collapse...I think we all thought it was a fire that would eventually be put out.
the next tower collapse...was when we all officially went into shock.
I'm also sure many of us here..even more so than most...were quite shocked when the pentagon was hit.
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I was on leave from Bragg, come home to bury my father a WWIi vet. As I was about to walk out the door with my mother to the funeral the news break happened showing the tower with what they said was a strike from a small personal aircraft. I told my mother that didn't look anything like a small airplane hit and as we stood there awestruck we watched the second plane coming in to hit. During the service we got news of the Pentagon being hit. I told my wife we have to leave as soon as service is over.
As I am trying to depart the area gas prices are going up so fast and the fuel lines are unbelievable. That was the most depressing and frustrating drive back to Bragg I ever had. I will never forget the day I buried a WWII veteran, my father, and how glad I am to this day that he did not have to witness this act.
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I was so young at the time, I remember it though.
By a wierd twist of random fate, I was staying up on September 11th. I remember the news, I saw planes coming in to those buildings and even at that age I could not believe it, I was scared. Scared of the evil men stealing my favourite thing in the world (planes) and using them to hurt. I couldnt sleep, I shook terrified in bed. Mum (RIP God bless her) told me that Australias air force wouldnt let bad men in.
I stayed up late on purpose to watch our guys go into Iraq and Afghanistan with a cold sense of justice and fury that seemed a bit out of place for a 9 year old.
I was 7 when it happened. And I was 9 when we hit back. So young was I and yet I can still remember those hours vividly.
Such a horrible day will never happen again as long as the brave men and women out there have our support. And if by some horrible twist of fate that it does. our retribution will make the heavens shake.
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I was in bed with my girlfriend at that time, I can't remember the time but it was pretty early. Her dad called and told me that 'turn on the TV, something bad had happened" and time I turned on after couple of minutes is when it was showing the second plane hitting. I do not remember if it was live or happened just matter of minutes before I turned on. I was already just sitting there like :O on what had happened, and my reaction was lot worse when the towers starting to collapse. I found out years later that an old high school friend of mine was killed when the first plane had struck; His office was in direct line of impact.