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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ebfd11 on September 11, 2014, 04:00:19 AM
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Please don't bring politics or dissenting comments in this posting.. post your answers here..
RIP to my 343 brothers lost on this day in 2001 and to all those lost in NYC, Shanksville Pa and the Pentagon.
:pray :salute LawnDart
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Middle school, period 3, Choir room
Total school lockdown and all period transitions were suspended until Period 7 after the faculty had small impromptu meetings on how to properly brief students fully and to calm parents down bombarding the school with calls...
The school was located just outside of Chicago and naturally feared a major city could be a target. Essentially many pre-cautionary measure to calm the panic and prepare for the worst.
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At work. Everyone was huddled around a small TV set. Not much work got done that day. :salute
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Awake. Listening to it on the radio in my parents bedroom at an ungodly hour at night.
I was 7 years old... and I had never heard my parents so quiet.
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I was at work and could see the story unfold in NYC
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The first I heard anything about it I was getting ready to leave for class at SIUE. The first report I saw on Yahoo news made it sound like it was just a small private plane that accidentally hit the tower and nothing about it being a terror attack involving a hijacked airliner. It wasn't until partway through my first class that I learned otherwise.
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At home in San Rafael, CA having been laid off from the tech industry two months prior. Had slept in so didn't see it until after the towers had come down.
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In bed asleep, finished a night shift and went to bed. We're five hours ahead here. When I woke up in the afternoon I turned on my TV in my room to try and wake myself up and found they were showing some silly disaster movie set in New York. So I flicked to the next station and it was there too and the next station.
Then I realised it was real.
That night I went into work. My supervisor, told me to not to let my guys watch too much of the ongoing events on the TV in the cafeteria. I totally ignored him. It was noticeable too that security was beefed up at our plant because we worked for a very famous American company. No one knew what was going to happen next.
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I was sitting in a cafeteria at USAA working with two friends on a change management strategy. There were about 10 televisions in there. We watched the initial reports and, all being aviators, knew that what hit the first tower was not a "Cessna". Change management seemed to be not so important that day, as meeting after meeting was rescheduled, and the whole company drew closer to support our members who might be victims. There were members in the Towers, on the airliners, and, of course, in the Pentagon.
I was proud of the American response to this event and encouraged by the outrage and concern expressed by the entire world.
If terrorism now knows no borders, as some would say, then it follows that terrorists should not enjoy the sovereignty and protection of international law.
:pray for peace.
:salute the fallen
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I was at work in San Antonio (Security Hill). We all monitored our JWICS terminals watching the intelligence reports come in. About 1200, the boss told everyone to go home to be with their families.
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Was 7 years old, woke up to my mom crying. Came out to see her watching TV, crying and saying how horrible it was. I never understood the weight of what I was watching until years later. The ignorance of youth.
:pray
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College. Just walked in to the building where my first class was and saw everyone around the TV. At first everyone was saying it was a Cessna and I'm thinking, "how the hell did anyone do that on accident?". Then the second one hit. :(
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600 feet underground, Canadian NORAD Region HQ.
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I had the day off and was flying in the game when someone said something about on the radio. Turned the TV on and watched it all.
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At home. I was about 8 years old or so... All I remember is walking into the living room and seeing the towers on TV.
Like Tinkles said, I was too young to understand what was going on...
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Was asleep from working. My father woke me up and told me to go fill my truck up with gas because of the price gouging going on. I later that day purchased my first ar-15. I was 19.
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I was eight years old. We were in the mission in San Antonia, Belieze. Got a call form the states at about 12 CST time. We packed up and drove to the big town a hour a way so we could watch the tv. Blew my 8 year old mind that someone would deliberately fly a plane into a sky scraper :salute
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I’d served my country in two war zones, Viet Nam as a Special Forces Medic from Nov 67 through May 69 and on 9/11. I was on a contract with the Port of Authority of NY & NJ, in their offices, standing on the 72nd floor looking out the east side windows towards Kennedy airport of the North Tower, thinking what a perfect fall day, “severe clear” in aviation terms, what a great day when a small dot caught my eye , within a split second it sprouted wings and continues its deadly flight path, I remember thinking it’s too low, it’s not going to clear the building, then it struck the No1, World Trade Center.
The ceiling caved in and everything packed into the ceiling spaces above your head in any modern day office was now piled on top of everyone standing on the floor, The building rocked and swayed.
My Medic Training kicked in and I made my way into the POA’s central office spaces and just listened , it was very still, I yelled: “does anyone need help?” through the haze of dust I could see people starting to push the debris off of them and standing, I started yelling for everyone to move to the stairwell and start down, don’t wait, I told them a plane hit the building somewhere above us. One or two people wanted to wait In place for instructions, I remember the February 93 bombing and had decided at that time that I’d be my own decision maker and I wanted to get out now. It took me 97 minutes to get clear of the complex and cross over to Broadway when the north tower came down, the few that waited in place for instructions, were never seen again.
After the first collapse I moved toward a Mount Sini hospital annex on Gold Street and volunteered my medic services, I spent the remainder of that day washing out people’s eyes and listening to lung sounds for early sings of respiratory distress. I talked to my wife on a borrowed cell phone and told her I was alright, I loved her and I’d find a way to get home.
That night I caught a ferry that ran between lower Manhattan and my home town of Highlands, NJ where when I stepped off the ferry was interviewed by the FBI. The world had changed and not for the better. I went home, sat at our kitchen table and cried like a baby in the arms of my wife.
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On the 2nd (my birthday) I was lucky enough to twice fly the B-24 down the Hudson, past the WTC and around the Statue of Liberty. I had never been in the NYC area, that first time around the statue brought tears to my eyes, it's a symbol of freedom and our nation. That was a very special flight.
On the 11th we were in Portland, Maine with the Collings Foundation bombers. When we got to the airport to open the airplanes for the day an airport worker told us "a 737 hit the WTC". I told the wife no way, CAVU day, probably a general aviation plane. The wife and I took the van to the shoe store and there a TV was showing the news. By the time we returned to the airport everything had been shutdown…back to the hotel where we sat and watched things unfold. My wife and I cried a lot that day, we knew our world was going to change.
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I was Getting ready to go to school when the first plane hit.... Then, once at school we all gathered in the gym to watch the rest of the morning unfold... it changed the way I saw the world. RIP.
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I was actually only three years old and don't remember anything.
My aunt was in NY though and after dropping my grandmother to catch a bus to Maryland she thought about going to the top of one of the towers. Luckily she changed her mind.
She remembers seeing the huge cloud of smoke after she arrived at my uncles house in Brooklyn.
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Driving like a mad man south of I-77 from my office work to downtown Charlotte to pick up my family.
My wife worked in the Bank of America Corporate Center at the time (the tallest building in Charlotte) and my then 1 year old son was at a daycare facility in the shadow of that building. My wife had dropped her car off for work so could not get out of the city. I ran out of the office and raced down I-77 at 90mph. I can honestly say it was one of the few times in of my life I actually panicked.
So there I was speeding like mad when I see a cop behind me with lights flashing. I pull on the side of the road (nearly losing control I might add) but he screams right by me with 20 other local police or state trooper cars in tow. I later found out they were headed to the airport to shut it down... :frown:
A very bad day....but one I will never forget.
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That night I caught a ferry that ran between lower Manhattan and my home town of Highlands, NJ where when I stepped off the ferry was interviewed by the FBI. The world had changed and not for the better. I went home, sat at our kitchen table and cried like a baby in the arms of my wife.
My God :cry I'm very happy you got out brother :salute
I had a job I called my 'hobby I get paid for' and was working on a contract. One of the quotes people said a plane had hit the WTC and I thought 'sheesh an idiot private plane did something stupid' then a little while later she said they were reporting another plane had hit and I immediately thought 'terrorism'. I took an early lunch, stopped by the store, stocked up on powdered milk, water, and canned goods. Went to my sons school and got him then went to the house. I tried to keep him entertained all day as I watched events unfold with my father.
Living in DFW at the time it was so eerie not to have planes going in and out of the airport for the next few days.
Personally I'll never forget exactly how I felt that day. Frightened, angry, wanting to lash out at the people who did this horrible thing. I'm still surprised that the casualty rate was as low as it was, not that 3000 is a low number, but I figured it would be much much higher. A lot of people did a lot of heroic things that day.
Big :salute to the responders who risked and sadly many lost their lives.
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:salute I just turned on the tv in time to see the 2nd jet hit. wife was taking our son to school . I was watching it all on tv thinking it was a promo to a movie it didn't seem real to me. I was watching all day about it. school was called off and my wife went to get our son from school. I was bewildered about the whole thing. last nite I watched a few shows about it off of nat-geo . so much caious going on in all 3 areas. makes me wonder if we have anything in place to act on it if it happens again. :pray
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I was in the Israeli air force in the middle of a large flying exercise. At first I thought it was a prank when someone told me that planes crashed into both WTC buildings. But then the IAF went into high alert and I was able to get to a TV to watch the news. Without going into details, we spent the rest of the night in high alert.
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On a treadmill taking a stress test as the first plane hit
Walking out of the hospital afterwords amazed at how quiet it was - about 6 miles south of Midway Airport in Chicago burbs - no planes in the sky was really strange..
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NwBie
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Standing on the roof of the company I worked at in Bergenfield, NJ watching F-15's fly overhead and the towers burning and falling.
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at the recruit station only to be told I was too old.
semp
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At work. I remember first hearing about in on the radio in my truck, and then walking into a lady's home to work on her AC and seeing it unfold on her big screen projection TV. It was damned near impossible to work, since I was crying. It's still the most horrible thing I've witnessed in my life.
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Sitting in my office, which at that time looked over the south side of Independence Hall. We had a TV and some radios and so were able to follow the news coverage.
Of course, no one then knew who had sent the planes; the al-Qaeda identification didn't come out until later on. I looked out around 11 am and saw the National Park Service guards, with their meager pistols, trying to cordon off and defend a very symbolic target in the face of an anticipated enemy onslaught. Madness.
- oldman (and <S> to Traveler)
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I’d served my country in two war zones, Viet Nam as a Special Forces Medic from Nov 67 through May 69 and on 9/11. I was on a contract with the Port of Authority of NY & NJ, in their offices, standing on the 72nd floor looking out the east side windows towards Kennedy airport of the North Tower, thinking what a perfect fall day, “severe clear” in aviation terms, what a great day when a small dot caught my eye , within a split second it sprouted wings and continues its deadly flight path, I remember thinking it’s too low, it’s not going to clear the building, then it struck the No1, World Trade Center.
The ceiling caved in and everything packed into the ceiling spaces above your head in any modern day office was now piled on top of everyone standing on the floor, The building rocked and swayed.
My Medic Training kicked in and I made my way into the POA’s central office spaces and just listened , it was very still, I yelled: “does anyone need help?” through the haze of dust I could see people starting to push the debris off of them and standing, I started yelling for everyone to move to the stairwell and start down, don’t wait, I told them a plane hit the building somewhere above us. One or two people wanted to wait In place for instructions, I remember the February 93 bombing and had decided at that time that I’d be my own decision maker and I wanted to get out now. It took me 97 minutes to get clear of the complex and cross over to Broadway when the north tower came down, the few that waited in place for instructions, were never seen again.
After the first collapse I moved toward a Mount Sini hospital annex on Gold Street and volunteered my medic services, I spent the remainder of that day washing out people’s eyes and listening to lung sounds for early sings of respiratory distress. I talked to my wife on a borrowed cell phone and told her I was alright, I loved her and I’d find a way to get home.
That night I caught a ferry that ran between lower Manhattan and my home town of Highlands, NJ where when I stepped off the ferry was interviewed by the FBI. The world had changed and not for the better. I went home, sat at our kitchen table and cried like a baby in the arms of my wife.
Salute Traveler.
I think it might be time for a book. It appears like you have had some experiences that would make a very interesting book
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I was in college, woke up to see all the dorm room doors open and every tv on. We watched as the second tower got hit, and then we all went to the chapel. I can't believe it was almost fifteen years ago... In 04' my family and I visited ground zero. I don't think I've ever cried like that since.
<<S>> to all who served that day, and those who gave it all.
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at the recruit station only to be told I was too old.
semp
I went in the next day with a bunch of guys from school. I was told that I wouldn't pass the physical with my knee and back injuries. I cried in the waiting room while my friends signed up.
One of them is still in the army. He's an army photo journalist, and was in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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I was home shaving and listening to the morning radio show. They broke the news and I went and sat in front of the tv almost all morning long. Since I was retired I had no job to go to at that point. The next day I called my Military advisor number and tried to get back in but they said they were not taking any retirees and certainly had plenty of O-5's anyhow. A few years later when they were taking retiree's back I had already blown 2 disks in my back and they wouldn't let me pass the physical even for some staff puke job just to help out.
I visit this website once a year, on this date. http://attacked911.tripod.com/
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3rd Grade, Social Studies
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On vacation in Turkey. Wandered out of the hotel in the morning to buy cigarettes and every bar I went past had people crowding around TV sets. Got back to the hotel room and Mrs Swoop said to me "Have you seen the news?!"
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For some reason I woke up early that day and turned on the TV!
It was about 5 minutes before the first plane hit and I was watching CNN,for some strange reason I like to read the teletype that scrolls across the bottom. Of course it all unfolded before my eyes.
I have a good friend who was a first responder,every year he goes to the reunion but he cant make it this year. Because he was a volunteer he received no help for the health issues he has as a result.
I spoke with him several months ago and he told me he was in the hospital yet again but the rumours of his death werent true! He was merely having stents put in to help the blood flow around and to his heart. His lungs are all but gone from breathing in all the toxic air,but when I ask him if he'd do it again all he says is "Hell Ya"!
:salute
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In class at TSTC Waco, TX. we were held in class for a short while then somebody remembered that President Bush regularly used the airstrip at TSTC to land airforce one when he would visit his ranch here in Texas. The faculty figured that the school (or more likely the airstrip) could be a target for attack and we were told to vacate campus.
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Traveler - thanks for sharing that, all I can say is, wow, I guess. You're the first person I've heard tell a story like that, having actually seen the plane come in from the building itself. I don't think anyone will have a better, or rather more important post here than that. It's incredible to me to think and know that you had the front row seat to such a terrible and life changing even in world history. I agree, a book, or certainly an article would be great if you ever wanted to do it. Props to you for your prior service and for stepping up and doing what you did 13 years ago today.
I was on the highway driving home to Calgary through the mountains from Vancouver. In the mountains FM radio doesn't work that great, so it happened to be on an AM talk/news show. Heard the news on the radio of the 1st plane, and talking with the 3 people I was driving with, and all of us agreeing that it was very odd, a strange accident in daylight and good weather. Literally seconds after one of us brought up the idea of it being a deliberate act, remembering the previous truck bomb attack, news of plane 2 hit the airwaves, and pretty much settled that.
The one thing I still remember is seeing so many faces in other cars that we passed by. The driver was a Calgary police officer, we were returning from a rifle competition at Ft Lewis in the USA the previous week, and had driven there from Calgary through Vancouver, and he was doing about 150km/h and passing everything in sight. It seemed every face I looked at was mirroring what we all felt - anger, sadness, confusion, a lot of shaking heads in disbelief, just as many stoic faces with tears streaming down. It is something I'll never forget, just seeing all these other travelers, without being able to speak to them or hear them, yet looks on faces saying more than words ever could anyway.
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But the real question is where is John Titor now?
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6th grade middle school, 1st period music. Before class even really started the teacher wheeled in a TV and said something was happening in New York. We saw what the first plane had caused, most New Yorkers seemed to be just viewing the destruction believing it was a horrible accident. Both towers were in the camera view with smoke and debris raining out of the first one. We watched the second plane appear from behind and send a massive fireball out of the second tower. After that it was mass hysteria in the streets of NY. We stayed on our course schedule throughout the day, but we kept up with the news on wall mounted TVs.
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I was at work in San Antonio (Security Hill). We all monitored our JWICS terminals watching the intelligence reports come in. About 1200, the boss told everyone to go home to be with their families.
I was in San Antonio, at technical school when this happened. I remember that people in the school started getting panic-y and excited. I paid it no mind until someone came into the classroom I was in and said we were under attack. About an hour after that, they told us to go home.
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I was a freshman at Fort Knox High School. I was in welding class and had a welding helmet I didn't notice everyone had went to the classroom to watch the news. My friend came and grabbed me and was telling me how they thought it may have been an accident. About that time the second plane hit.
The base went on lock-down no one on, no one off. Students whose families lived off post got stuck for a couple days.
It's crazy to think but in those days you could just drive on a military base, there was no checkpoints then.
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I was at Ft. Leonardwood, MO conducting our final day of testing for MP school. We thought it was part of an exercise worked into the testing at first. There were some guys working post detail in our parking lot and they had the radio going listening to the updates. Then our Drill Sergeants began taking turns using the phones and we knew something must be wrong. After we were done that morning there was a formation called to tell us the official news. Talk about a dose of reality being thrown at you. We didn't see the footage until the next day when we were allowed to go to the PX. We were stunned to say the least.
I still have that certificate framed and on the wall dated 11-September-2001.
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Was Working Daywork at Buck's County Medic 154 when I was sleeping on the chair and my partner woke up yelling Holy Bleep and then the rest of us stood there in shock, Chief on the phone trying to get people together to send up to NYC to help out and all. Traveler <Salute> to you Sir. A day in history I will never Forget RIP 343 and to everyone who lost loved ones that day.
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I was in college, and later that morning I was to have a review of my digital portfolio and my sketchbook. I turned on the TV and in about 20 seconds or right about the time my groggy brain realized what I was watching, the 2nd plane hit.
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Work.
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Got up in the AM. I had the day off and planned to go golfing. I turned on the TV and to my surprise found this tragedy on TV.
I stayed home, melancholy to say the least. Watched a large number of heroes. Watched a lot of innocents die.
I will never forget.
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I was with another guy doing a utility markout around the athletic fields at the Univ of Delaware where I work. We were just saying it was such a beautiful day we should have stayed home when some other guys drove up and called me over. They knew I was an airplanes guy and told me a plane just crashed into the WTC. I was like--no way? TODAY? How could they miss it? It was so clear that day. I think a tropical system had just passed thru and drew a lot of cool dry air from up North. Super clear. I thought for sure it was a small plane and maybe it was a suicide attempt or medical condition or something. When I was done I turned on the local news radio and found it wasn't a small plane. This was a bigger deal. Heard about the ground stop on the radio. Heard the fighters flying overhead but couldn't see them. Saw lots of airliners circling the area. I'm not far from Philly.
I got myself to where I knew there was a TV and watched it unfold. By then the second plane had hit. It was hard to watch. My heart broke a little more with each falling person. Then the towers fell. It was chaos. Our governor closed the schools and sent state employees home. So my wife went to grab our girls. I stayed at work as we had the responsibility of a lot of older kids many of whom were from that area and many that lost friends and relatives. It was hard seeing them too. We didn't know what to do.
When I finally got home my wife and I hugged and cried. She's from North Jersey and wanted to go home to be with her parents. Our kids had never seen us in that state. They were very young at the time. That day changed everything. Just when it seemed like our generation was free of the fear of nuclear war this happens. And a new kind of fear took it's place.
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Was home, scheduled for surgery the next day when a buddy called. I saw the weather conditions and the size of the hole in the building and the first thing i said was "that was terrorism". A few minutes later the 2nd one hit.
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I was at work in Belleville NJ, and first heard about it from a friend who was driving into work on the NJ turnpike. He yelled 'a jet just flew into the twin towers!' I ran up to the roof and saw the second plane hit. Saw the towers fall, and then came back inside and started telling everyone to go home. The plant receptionist was hysterical. Her niece's fiance worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and they had just found out he probably didn't make it out. The niece was on the phone with him, and the phone had cut out.
A family friend was the chief nurse for Merrill Lynch, and her and five other nurses were at the base of the towers helping burn victims as they came out. All these years later she still gets nightmares about the sound a human body makes when it hits pavement (it's a 'pop' not a 'thud'). The cops grabbed her as the first tower fell, and she made it out. President Bush gave her a presidential citation at a White House reception for her a year or so later.
I got home, looked up, and saw F-15's flying CAP over the NYC area, clockwise. Will never forget it.
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I was in bed on my second day off from the FD. My buddy called and woke me up right after the second plane hit.
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Setting a Ford sign in Hawley.
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Had just reported for duty at USCENTCOM, MacDill AFB. Got up, saw the news and thought... "Well, this is going to be an interesting tour".
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Had just reported for duty at USCENTCOM, MacDill AFB. Got up, saw the news and thought... "Well, this is going to be an interesting tour".
And you were right about that, weren't you?
Good to see you, dude.
- oldman
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3rd grade. We all left early that day. I remember waiting in line for over a mile for gas with my father.
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6th grade in computer class and the teacher stopped us from what we was doing and made us watch it on TV after about an hour my mom came and got me from school and took me home. i will never forget watching it
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I was in my office at work and had a radio on in the background. I heard about the first plane when the news came on and thought it was a tragic accident. Shortly after, a news flash reported a second plane had hit and I realised this was no accident. Not much work got done the rest of the day as most of the time was spent listening to radio reports. Once home, the evening's TV schedule comprised of repeated showings of the planes hitting and the towers collapsing. I watched it all, feeling extremely sad and angry for what was happening to my friends across the pond. After getting to know so many through Air Warrior and Aces High, I felt a very close bond. I particularly remember worrying about Wax, who I knew lived on Long Island and had often heard him say he worked in New York, and was greatly relieved a day or two later to find he was OK.
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It is so sad to see a movie from the past or video clip with the twin towers in the background.
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I was 5 years old with the flu for the first time. I was sitting on my moms lap as it all happened on the TV. My dad came home early and they talked about what was going on.
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I was in Germany on a business meeting. My wife called to tell me. She was crying. My first thought, having recently read Snow Crash was, they must have taken over planes using improvised knives, and it must be Bin Laden, as his terror group was the only one with such coordination as its hallmark.
At breakfast in the German hotel, an elderly British man came over to our table. "Are you Americans?" he asked. "Yes," I said. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, "We are with you. We are with you."
There were a lot of our company's people travelling that day. Two of them were in the World Trade Center for meetings, but then the meetings were moved directly across the street. They heard the first plane hit, and were looking out the window when the 2nd plane hit. They saw falling debris and a little later the falling bodies of people who jumped rather than burn to death. At that point, they quickly got out of the area. Most of the people they were in the meeting with didn't and died when the World Trade Center collapsed. Like many other companies that day, nearly all of that company's people were wiped out.
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I’d served my country in two war zones, Viet Nam as a Special Forces Medic from Nov 67 through May 69 and on 9/11. I was on a contract with the Port of Authority of NY & NJ, in their offices, standing on the 72nd floor looking out . . .
Holy cow! You saved people that day who would not be alive if it weren't for you. <S> to you, Traveler! You probably have saved more people, too, being a Special Forces Medic. :salute
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That day gives us a good idea what it must have been like on December 7th. The young people that were not old enough to grasp 9/11 on that day will know the date but not the pain just as we know of Pearl Harbor but can't grasp what it really felt like to hear the news.
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I've been watching it all again on YouTube as well as various documentaries in recent days. Even at a younger age I was considerably more mature than most. (My parents were very big on me reading). I understood it perfectly, but not the gravity of it when I watched.
Watching it again, does anyone else feel this solid wall of unrelenting coldness come over them? Even though it was 13 years ago I just feel as though I was witnessing pure evil in front of me. And this overwhelming commitment to its destruction.
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Please don't bring politics or dissenting comments in this posting.. post your answers here..
RIP to my 343 brothers lost on this day in 2001 and to all those lost in NYC, Shanksville Pa and the Pentagon.
:pray :salute LawnDart
I remember where I was when it went down . I was working on a 30 thousand dollar fireplace I was building . I remember all the fuel pump's had a line a mile long on the way home .
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Back then, I was working ten hour days, 6am to 4:30 at APS in Phoenix. I got there about 10 to 6 as usual. Got my coffee and talked to Fred who came in when I did.. After a few mnutes, he called out and said a plane hit the WTC. I mentioned plane had once struck the Empire State Building back in the late thrities - early forties.
We went to the breakroom and turned on the TV. We looked at the TV and then at each other, speechless. By this time other people were arriving at work and the break room filled. Some people talking quietly, others not saying anything.
When the 2nd plane hit, a couple of the women screamed in horror, some of us cursed.
Not long after that came the announcement that we could stay and work or charge your normal shift hours, and go home and to be with our families.
When I got back to Mesa, my Dad had brought the extra TV into the family room and was watching two different channels. we talked a bit and I remeber telling him that I felt a rage to lash out at whoever did it.
That was when I asked my Dad, if he had felt the way I was feeling back on Dec 7, 1941.
He slowly turned his head and looked at me, and quietly said "yes", trying to hold back his tears.
LtngRydr
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I was in bed after working night shift,and I remember waking up after the first plane hit. After the second one hit, I told her " that was no accident,we are under attack". Got a call about an hour later from the state defense force friends,and they said that nobody has been called up yet,but stay by the phone. No commercial aircraft flew out of airport for 3 straight day. Didn't get a lot of sleep that week.
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I had forgot to throw my laundry in the dryer the night before, so I was going to be late for my carpentry job. While my clothes were drying I jumped online (warbirds) to fly. Was flying with fender that morning, his name was yaws here in AH. Someone jumped on and said a plane hit the WTC. I responded, "sounds like your flying!" A regretful statement, but my first thoughts was that it was a private plane. As the series of events unfolded it was obvious I wasnt going to work. I would call in and keep the guys posted as to what was happening. I was still online interacting with the people there. There was a young player from NY on also, I recall him saying "I can see the smoke from my house, this is the coolest thing ever!" I lashed out in anger at the statement and days later asked him how many people he knew that died. He said there was one guy down the street and that he regretted saying it was cool.
When things cooled off that day, I jumped on my motorcycle, went around town and started lowering flags to half staff.
It was a terrible day and I will never forget.