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Post by Foggy on Sept 11, 2019 9:28:41 GMT -6
I was driving on my way to work. Heard it on the radio. Got to work....turned on TV. Told employees that they should stop working and watch. Second plane hit. Was a terrible morning. Worried about what was next??
It was my youngest daughters birthday. Hard to celebrate.
Still pisses me off to this day. Basterds
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 11, 2019 9:35:32 GMT -6
I was driving on my way to work. Heard it on the radio. Got to work....turned on TV. Told employees that they should stop working and watch. Second plane hit. Was a terrible morning. Worried about what was next?? It was my youngest daughters birthday. Hard to celebrate. Still pisses me off to this day. BasterdsThis and that! |
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Post by benmnwi on Sept 11, 2019 11:56:38 GMT -6
I was sitting in a classroom during my senior year of college. It seemed like an odd accident initially until plane #2 hit. American flags seemed to pop up everywhere after that day.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 11, 2019 12:34:13 GMT -6
Just about to leave for work when my second youngest son came running in the room and said "Planes are crashing into buildings" ...such a sad day!
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Post by Tooln on Sept 11, 2019 12:40:34 GMT -6
I was on my way to work. I didn't turn on the TV that morning. I was heading down a road, bluebird clear morning. Up in the distance was a business flying a giant American flag. It was flapping in the gentle breeze. I turned on the local sports talk station and they were playing "America The Beautiful" by Ray Charles, which I thought was odd. When the song ended, they talked about the news. I turned around and went home instead of sitting on a help desk resetting passwords. I can't hear that version of that song anymore without experiencing a ton of emotion. I was semi-fresh out of the USAF back then and I knew the news meant a lot of my friends would be in harm's way again pretty soon. I was right. I lost a few. I still feel guilt about getting out of the service and abandoning my friends. I really started drinking hard about that time, which became a pretty big issue in my life. I've since quit. I still feel the guilt. Kooch thanks for your service. No need to feel guilty. Myself I was sleeping cause of working nights. Got up to take a leak and my phone was vibrating like hell. Check the voicemails and found out the news that way. Never did go back to bed. |
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Post by Reagan on Sept 11, 2019 14:02:44 GMT -6
I was making a sales call along with a coworker from upstate New York. We heard that a plane hit a tower but didn’t think much of it.
I didn’t even turn on the radio on the way to the next call.
At the second customer someone told us a second plane had hit and they brought in a little TV with a 6” screen. They turned it on and we saw the tower fall.
My coworker looked at me and said 50,000 people work there and they just died. He also had a sister who was a flight attendant out of NY. He finally got her on the phone to learn she was off that day.
I spent the next few days glued to the TV.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 11, 2019 17:39:17 GMT -6
A guy I worked with a few years back was in a sales meeting in a building across the street when the planes hit. They were on the side of the building where they looked out and saw it.
He is of Afghan decent..... He said getting from New York back to San Jose was very scary. He was alone and ended up getting a rental car somewhere and drove back. He said stopping for food, gas and hotel he just felt the piercing looks from people all the way back and said he was afraid for his life just to get home.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 11, 2019 18:19:52 GMT -6
I drove all night after 911 to visit my Mom who was terminally ill with cancer. That next day, the nurses had the TV in her room on the news. Due to medication, my Mom was confused and the reoccurring video had my Mom thinking planes were hitting buildings all over the country. In her mind they were repeated attacks. I finally found a station with some game show, but each nurse wanted to go back to the news.
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Post by kabic on Sept 11, 2019 18:36:03 GMT -6
I was at work. I remember management sending out an email saying the best thing we could do was get back to work as normal. I was thinking they were fucktards for sending that email.
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