We have many new people since we last asked- Where were you on 9/11? – IOTW Report

We have many new people since we last asked- Where were you on 9/11?

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58 Comments on We have many new people since we last asked- Where were you on 9/11?

  1. I was at home in Alabama and my husband was in New York State on business. I figured he was safe but could not reach him. I was on my computer and listening to local radio when the local weatherman said “a plane just flew into the WTC” so I turned on the TV. The weather was spectacular that day, sunny and very cool. That was a strange juxtaposition. I was angry and scared.

    My husband was finally able to get home 3 days later.

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  2. Taking a nap in a recliner at home.
    Got woke by a 2 way pager.My boss in
    Atlanta said “do not go into any buildings”.
    Then I turned on the TV and was shocked! beyond
    all belief…

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  3. I had left the office around 08:15 and went to the local barber shop.. I was in the chair when the first report of a “plane” hitting the WTC…… 23 minutes later after I had finished my cut I stood mesmerized staring at the tv and saw the second attack. WTF! izlamo delenda est indeed!

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  6. In a rented house overlooking Lewis Bay on Cape Cod. We had flown into Logan airport for our wedding anniversary week on the Saturday before. I often wonder if Mohammed atta was there casing the airport. Two of the flights departed from there. We rented a car to get from Boston to Hyannis.

    9/11 is our wedding anniversary. That they play Taps every anniversary is not good. It causes us both to be depressed every year, but we suffer through it.

    Watched the whole thing live on TV that morning.
    Saw the fighter jets scrambling from Otis AFB.

    We ended up driving the rental car home from cape cod to Virginia the next Saturday, even though flights resumed on Friday. There was no way either of us was getting on a plane.

    Drove past smoldering NYC and scarred Pentagon.

    That’s a super short version of it.

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  7. I was in my office at SAS Institute in Cary, NC. While I was catching up on project reports, I had CNN streaming on my PC (back in 2001 CNN was worth watching, mostly). It was only after the first plane hit that I started paying attention. When the second plane hit I knew this was an attack and not the accident people were hoping it was earlier. I called my parents in Florida and didn’t try to explain, but just told them to turn on the tube and that I’d call them later.

    I didn’t get any more work done that day.

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  8. Living on a sailboat in the Caribbean. We were checking out of Customs on the island of Curacao that morning. It’s a small office without a lot of activity. When the agent saw our American passports he called his supervisor who led us to his office, explained what was happening, and left us to watch his TV. Of course, we were stunned. Over the next few weeks news trickled in from international radio but we missed the constant barrage of talking heads on TV. There was a closeness among American yachties and comfort offered from other nationals. But we simply were not exposed to the same experiences people on the mainland went through. Very odd to be remote from your country during an experience like that.

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  9. I was sound asleep in Nevada when my phone rang at 5:30 a.m. It was my mother in Northern Ohio: “You better get up and turn on your television. All hell is breaking loose back here.” I spent the rest of the day in front of the television crying and praying.

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  10. electrical inspector at the Patuxent Water Treatment Plant remodel construction project. (the original plant was built in 1944 out of steel. they were producing so much steel for WWII, it was plentiful … hard to believe) the construction contractor’s secretary had a small portable tv & came out to say a plane hit the WTC. we crowded around the set & watched a little, then went back to work. about a half-hour later I stopped in to witness the second plane hit the second building. after they fell, we got the report that the Pentagon was hit. we climbed on the roof of the control building (the highest point in PG County) & could see the black smoke from the crash. a chilling sight & we knew it was the start of a new war.

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  12. …I already sort of addressed this in an earlier thread, but that was then…

    …I was at work at a food processing plant that made MREs. The plant had been built for Desert Shield by a different company and abandoned when Iraq lost Kuwait very quickly, and we took it over.

    I had a pager at the time, that was pretty high-tech then. I got the news of the first strike on my pager in the form of “SMALL PLANE HIT WORLD TRADE CENTER”.

    As the news came in, people started rotating in and out of the break rooms to watch whatever they could. In our position, it was very relevant. Management took the hint and got together with us about current and surge capabilities.

    We had plans for a military surge by sunset.

    And we needed it within the week.

    Everyone KNEW it was war after the second plane. Everyone was READY for war after the second plane.

    It grieved me at that time that I was not in the military. Every fiber of my being cried to avenge.

    But the Lord had apportioned me a support role, which I fulfilled to the best of my ability.

    As did the Nation.

    For a brief, shining moment, we were united as one.

    I will remember that day until I die, and I have taken pains to teach my son.

    I do not forget.

    …but I fear that my Nation has.

    https://youtu.be/p6yLQRF-cEU

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  14. I work for a fortune 100 company. You probably see one of our products every day. I was lead project engineer on a major product development program that had just gone into production. I was visiting our factory on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that day to check on the status of the production ramp-up. The plant manager announced what had happened over the loudspeaker.
    Production came to a complete halt. The normally busting factory with 100s of workers fell silent. Before noon he announced the plant was closing for the day and sent everyone home to their families.
    The chesapeake bay bridge was closed so I could not go home. I booked a room at a local hotel assuming I would have to stay there all night. I called my wife to tell her what was happening. She was completely unaware and became quite upset that I was not able to come home. I ended up hanging around the plant office area the rest of the afternoon watching the news on a coworker’s computer. Eventually the bridge reopened so I went home that evening. The national guard was stationed at the bridge and was only letting one lane (of three) cross. Each soldier was in full combat attire and carrying an M16 rifle. When I got home I hugged my wife and kids and then watched the news the rest of the evening.

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  15. We were discussing F-15 training flights for the day. Nothing had to be said. The troops automatically sprung into action securing the base, getting as many jets ready as possible. Our jets were in the air before we got ‘the official call’. Big-lump-in-throat `as veterans, retirees, volunteers, complete strangers, vendors stood at Front Gate offering their goods and services.

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  16. PHenry, 9/11 is also my anniversary. Today would’ve been my 43rd anniversary if my wife hadn’t passed away from cancer nearly 7 years ago. Anyway on 9/11/2001 I was on my way to work early riding the bus when we first heard about a plane flying into one of the towers in NYC. By the time I got to work all hell had broken loose and we watched it all unfold before our eyes on a TV before I had to go and start my deliveries for the day. The next 3 to 4 days were surreal with no planes flying in the sky and it was absolutely hauntingly quiet after President Bush ordered a stop to all air traffic. It was almost like planes didn’t exist for a few days. That was a tough week for all of us even those of like me who live on the opposite side of the country from NYC.

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  18. …what about 9/11/12? Most of us, including Hillary, were asleep when the reporting on that started, and the “Obama” fake administration tried their level best to KEEP us that way…

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  19. I was driving to work– turned on the radio and heard the news about a plane hitting the WTC. I immediately rushed back home to catch my husband before he left for work. He saw my running to the door and I guess I looked pale and horrified as he initially thought something had happened to one or both of our kids. Spent most of the day watching the horror unfold on TV. All those lives lost and families who would never be the same. I still get nauseous when I think about that day. Never forget. 🇺🇸

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  21. Not to divert the conversation, but in spite of the devastating few days in 2001 and the three thousand tragic deaths, we came together as a country, at least for a moment.

    This should be its own thread separate from this one.

    But I have to ask.

    When the Red Chinese launched their Wuhan Death on the world, were the islamists as effective in destroying America, its culture, its interpersonal dealings on a humanity level? And have the elected Socialist democrats launched a masked, faceless, impersonal, distrustful detachment and deprivation of normal civil society from which is far more difficult to recover from than what Governors Cuomo, Wittmer, Newsom, Northam, and countless mayors and faceless bureaucrats have inflicted on their own citizens?

    The face of evil doesn’t always carry a scimitar.

    It seems to be a silent shaming into a supplicant society.

    I was reticent and resistant to the mask thing. Then I got a defiant mask stating fuck the governor. But I keep it at the ready.
    Sorry for the rant and the topic needs to go to another thread, as I said.
    But we didn’t disconnect from one another on 9/11 like these creep gov/mayors are forcing us to do now, under penalty of law. We weren’t forced to shutter our businesses, schools, places of worship.

    9/11 may not have been the “good old days” but this is worse. Much worse.

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  22. I was in NYC.

    Arrived at LaGuardia from Reagan (DC) around 7:15 AM. Caught a cab to 5th Ave. and saw the first big ball of flames just after being hit. Taxi driver and I thought it was a Hollywood stunt for a movie.

    Was working for an Engineering/Occupational Safety & Health National company, with an office across the street from the Empire State Bldg. I was scheduled to meet with a telecommunications company (whose antenna tower was atop one of the buildings) to inspect their Manhattan facility and develop an H&S Plan.

    By the time I arrived at my office, everyone was watching the events on television. Then the next building was hit. The rest, everyone knows.

    The streets were shoulder-to-shoulder people in disbelief and awed panic. The subways were shut down along with all forms of public transportation. My return flight was useless.

    All auto travel exits out of Manhattan were reportedly blocked or closed. I already had booked a room, days before at a nearby hotel. Our office building was evacuated due to the Empire State Building being across the street and fear that it would be hit next.

    Everyone was trapped out on the street. I checked in, to the hotel after several hours of winding and swimming through a sea of people in disbelief. My scheduled H&S appointment had also been canceled. Cell phones no longer worked.

    9-12-2001

    Went out the next morning and walked to Ground Zero. People still in shock.

    There was total armed security surrounding the Site, blocked off by side-by-side dump trucks and other vehicles hiding mountainous piles of igneous and billowing, volcanic-like rubble. The massive smoke cloud, choking the sky, wafted away towards the E/NE. I was due to return to DC that day, but now no way to leave. The hotel let me stay an extra night for free, including the night before.

    9-13-2001

    Penn Station was reportedly open and I arrived to wait in line for some 5 hours to finally buy a ticket and catch the next train to DC, Union Station.

    Arrived at Union Station later and caught the Metro to Reagan Airport. No one was in the airport, and an empty graveyard of hundreds of docked aircraft slept outside on the tarmac.

    So, I walked to the parking lot to retrieve my car. No parking charge and I drove toward Maryland, passing the Pentagon with massive smoke clouds hovering over the north, across the Potomac. I was one of a few cars driving during afternoon rush hour.

    A deep sadness lingered everywhere as I drove on empty roads that I had driven over for decades and bicycled over to DC as a kid to walk inside all of the government buildings, at-will and unhindered.

    I felt I had entered Hell.

    About a Month Later

    Was scheduled to monitor dust removal operations with all HVAC duct systems in several buildings surrounding Ground Zero, as employee absenteeism was reportedly due to the HVAC systems being in full operation during and after the 9/11 Event.

    The 9/11 dust was believed deposited within the HVAC duct systems with the dust and charred and powdered human remains of the Event. Every time the system kicked on with sudden system vibration, it was feared (or believed) it was continually blowing the disturbed dusts into occupied spaces through the supply air registers.

    Arrived on a second trip to another building. This time, I afterward walked the streets and still saw people with photographs of their missing loved-ones, imploring/asking/begging people, “Have you seen this person?” with ever-failing hope and horror. After several hours of this very saddening and heart-wrenching experience, I returned to my hotel room and wept all night (the tears always come every 9/11). Left the next day, as the dust abatement had passed the testing and inspection.

    Aftermath

    Lost a close business colleague that Day from Texas, to whom I spoke over the phone many times concerning upcoming projects for his company, which I would be conducting. I will never hear that friendly voice ever again. The company I was working for had a long-standing multi-million dollar contract for monitoring and testing asbestos abatement projects at the two now-vanished buildings. Soon after, the company slowly folded. I left before then and started my own company.

    I Shall Never Forget.

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  23. I was working for Bell in DC. I was at one of the DC Gubbment buildings and was told the Capitol and White House had been destroyed, as well as the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. We were all recalled shortly after that by pager.

    Sadly we watched the Pentagon burn from the roof of 1711 Florida Ave.

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  24. pianamusic
    SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 AT 8:54 PM
    “I was in NYC…”

    Thank you for that timeline and firsthand Ground Zero report. You saw the horror in a way the rest of us only got through the sanitized filter of the small screen and the comfort of miles of distance. I am sorry for the loss of your friend, which makes it more personal for you, but it is good that God granted you safe passage to give witness to us.

    God Bless,
    SNS

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  25. On a roof, with a clueless natural gas inspector who moved to Canada from Afghanistan, waiting for him to approve my installation.

    I will never forget his words, …So my country has been at war for decades.”

    My exact thoughts were, “You motherfucker!” (could not say out loud)

    I knew it was terrorism when the first plane hit, called my wife ASAP and told her to stay in the country with the baby away from Toronto in case bombs started flying etc.

    Respectfully, I have always felt that 9-11 was a much bigger global event than the Kennedy assassination since it led to immediate wars, +3000 dead, and changed the nature everyday life in the world.

    Latter that day, I immediately bought a NY Yankees cap and My first American Flag.
    It is still on the Wall of My Gym room.

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  26. We had just moved to Las Vegas from San Diego two days prior, living in a short-term apartment while waiting to move into our house. I took the dog for her morning walk and heard a neighbor’s TV reporting something bad happening in New York. I rushed back and turned on the TV and mostly watched for 3 days straight while the horror was unfolding.I remember my primary emotion was anger.

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  28. I was working online at home when it happened. I think I already had the TV on because I don’t remember anyone calling me. But I could’ve seen something about it on the web first. Anyway, I remember turning on Fox News and then being mesmerized for the next day or so.

    One thing I do remember quite clearly was the almost immediate change in air traffic. Commercial stuff just stopped, but then the military stuff started. I live in a rural area but in a county just north of Fort Campbell, the home of the 101st Screaming Eagles. You can always tell when they are ramping up for something because helicopters of all types make runs right over us. Day and night. And that was all that went over us for… what was it a week before the airlines started back up?

    I could never figure out whether those sounds above me made me feel better and more safe or worse and more scared. People always compare 9/11 to Pearl Harbor. And I’m sure they’re right. But on the other hand, 9/11 affected the entire country. Immediately. In very visible ways.

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  29. I was in California,Monterey.
    Flew down from Toronto the week before.
    I was involved in racing amateur motor sports at the time.
    Always wanted to drive at Laguna Seca (was not going to happen unless i won a lottery)
    However i had enough to fly down and watch some racing.
    Was flying out the morning it happened.
    Spent an extra week checking out California before i could fly back.
    Scored a first class flight back(no extra charge)and did an interview over the phone from my hotel room (which was discounted) with the SF Chronicle.
    Told them how well i was being treated etc.and it did go to print.
    To me it was a day America was devastated but also a day i realized the USA Rocks Eh!

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  30. I was living in a Southwestern suburb of Minneapolis, MN. I was just leaving for work and my roommate told me that a small plane crashed into one of the towers. I stopped to watch a little of the coverage and just as I thought about heading out the door, the other plane hit. We sat and watched for a while before I called the office. My boss said to stay home as they were letting everyone go for the day.

    Watched TV until I went to bed. As I was laying there trying to sleep, I heard a jet fly overhead. I jumped up to look out the window to see it. Nothing. Duh, they wouldn’t have their lights on, silly.

    They patrolled all night and for the next few nights, too. I felt angry and sad about what happened, but safe knowing who was up there patrolling and making sure I was safe.

    God bless our military.

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  31. I was driving to my job as a legal secretary around 9:15 and half way there I turned on my radio. First thought was they finally did it–thinking of the previous WTC bombing of 93. Opened the office and was alone until the copier guy came in and we exchanged comments about it all (I’d had no radio inside) then he mentioned pentagon–and I was like PENTAGON!!! I dug out a small B&W tv and it was on all day and my boss finally arrived and he didn’t even mind tv all day in his office. We did our work anyway but stopped to stare at the small tv from time to time. That night at home with husband and kids we had a tv in the kitchen on all the time and I recall the scene where the huge column of dust and debris came rolling down the street between the buildings while the people ran to keep ahead.

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  32. I was off work for the day in Lexington, Ky. I was on the computer when my 13 year old daughter came to me and said something was going on on the TV. I went to watch and was stunned. I took the kids to the local fast food joint and they had a TV pulled out of the back for us to watch. I stood there with 4-5 total strangers and we talked about America more than I usually did with my friends. I had a sense that the world had somehow changed, but I didn’t know how much it had. I remember JFK’s death and the moon landing, but this was somehow different.

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  33. I’m still enraged over the 2001 mass murder!
    The following year we were terrorized in Maryland by two Mohammedans randomly shooting people from a “white box truck” , motivated by the 9/11/2001 murders.

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  34. I was leaving the house to attend morning Mass, had headed to the shut off the TV in the loving room when the first footage ran. When I was driving to Mass, the second plane struck. I was a few minutes late for Mass because I sat in the car for a few minutes listening to the report of the second plane.

    When I walked into the chapel I stupidly interrupted the priest to announce please let us add intentions for the people affected, sat down and stayed in a daze for weeks.

    Youngest son was in dorm room at a big ten University. Muslim boys in that dorm were laughing and yucking it up while watching the replays. One of the guys on the floor punched out the Muslim laughers. He got suspended.

    Friend’s daughter was on campus at a closer private and prestigious university. She witnessed a bunch of Muslim students waiting in front of dorms with huge trunks waiting to be picked up by a buss to leave.

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  35. Sitting in the living room still in my jammies (6ish AM MST). I stayed there all day long.
    Not familiar with NYC we thought 3 buildings had been hit by planes – the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers. We thought the Towers might be apartments, the WTC – a kind-a Wall street thing.
    The guessing much later was the BinLaden thought the WTC was where all “world trading was done” and he could disrupt all economies. The Pentagon was the epitome of American military and if it was destroyed, so would the military.
    The planes were supposed to immediately bring down the buildings, but that didn’t happen. The Pentagon still stood.

    Just like the Japanese, the radical Muslims underestimated America and Americans. They started something that isn’t over yet.

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  36. I was overseas. My wife called me during the evening, but it was early Tuesday am in California. She had on the news and said that something weird had happened – a plane flew into the WTC…I began to recollect about the WWII bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building back ca 1944-45. Then, while we were talking, she gasped and said another plane had crashed into the other tower. Instantly, like lots of other folks, I thought terrorist attack.

    A very sad day for all of us.

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  37. @smudge. Beltway snipers also terrorized and shot people in Ashland and Richmond area. From a Chevy caprice, not a white van.

    Do you remember filling up your gas tank back then? I used to Bob and weave like I was on the Soul Train dance line.

    I had some serious moves back then. The scaredy chicken. The dip low. The credit card swipe and the LETSGETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE.

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  39. We were a united country for a few days, maybe a few weeks. It all fell apart when people like ignoramus Rosie O’Dumbell started conspiracy yakking about how our own people had wired explosives into both buildings to ensure they would fall.

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  41. In my home office, doing a bit of company paperwork before hitting the road. I was actually talking to a girl in the company service center in Washington state when the second tower was hit. I told her something big and terrible was happening in NYC, and recommended they find a source of news to get the details. Left to drive to my first stop of the day 45 minutes later.

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  43. I was at work and in charge of the media services of a moderately large corporation. I watched the first plane hit the tower and that’s when I flipped the switch to feed the live news to all the monitors in the corporation. They all came on at once. It was a very somber day. You could hear a pin drop. Bastards.

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  44. The night before my wife and sons went out to celebrate my birthday which is the 11th and driving home we spotted a comet and i never forgot what i said. It looks like a missile. I stopped to get a cup of coffee at the corner store on the way into work that morning and i couldnt believe what the kid behind the counter said. When i got to work the other therapist and i just sat and watched the set all morning. Cancelled every appt and went home.

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  45. I was in a daily planning meeting at a power plant when an engineer noted from his pager newsfeed that a plane had crashed into the WTC. The meeting continued. A few moments later he announced that another plane had flown into the WTC. The Operations director ordered the plant locked down. Immediately all our running units were ordered to minimum load, as power consumption plummeted as the disaster unfolded. There was fear for a short time that United flight 93 was targeting the nuke power station northeast of Pittsburgh.

    That afternoon I don’t think I ever had witnessed such a beautiful blue sky, and not a contrail to be seen.

    Next day we had 24 hour police presence in and around our plant. That lasted for weeks.

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  46. Pacific time: I came downstairs to Geoff C. who already had seen the first plane hit the tower just minutes before. As we were transfixed on that image, the second plane came into view (this was live) and we watched in horror as it plunged into the other tower. We tried to keep our voices normal and as soon as we heard our young daughter coming downstairs, the tee vee was turned off and we started the day as normally as possible. As soon as I returned from dropping her off at school, we both were glued to the tv and to the internet, trying to learn as much as possible. By that time, the Pentagon had been struck and flight 93 had crashed.

    I think it was the next day that I called the Air Force to see if I could re-up in my job classification. Honestly didn’t even think about leaving our daughter and my husband to keep watch on the home fires while I was off doing whatever needed to be done to kill as many of those monsters as possible.

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  47. Crammed in an extended stay hotel with my parents and six siblings (long sad story), so we were already emotionally vulnerable and exhausted when it happened.

    Actually, on the day of, my dad was just about to go and get some breakfast with me and a few of the other kids. The car was running, he went in to grab his wallet and I was mindlessly watching the local news while my mom put my hair into a ponytail…

    The BREAKING NEWS and immediate live coverage of New York was just-

    Everything felt broken just then.

    (Of course for our family things DID get better, and obviously our nation got better too- but that day and the following week were very rough).

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  48. I had the day off work for a medical test//ultrasound in Westlake, OH. The TV was on the waiting room and there was no other sound in that room. What I saw just did not register. It couldn’t be real yet it was. The tech who did the test had been an Army medic. His son was serving in the Army. He said he knew we would go to war and he feared for his son.

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  49. I watched the planes fly into the WTC. As a FDNY*EMS paramedic due in for the 1400-2200 shift, I dressed and went in to my station on Staten Island. I worked “back-fill” covering the streets for the units assigned to GROUND ZERO. Looking back, this was fortunate – many of my coworkers on the pile, including two of my partners, died of complications: self-presenting at the hospital asking to have a breathing tube placed and going on a ventilator then dying a month later.

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  50. As an aside story. Five weeks or so after the 9-11 attacks I was in the Netherlands, in the city of Eindhoven. One evening I went to eat dinner at a Shorama (the Dutch spelling. Elsewhere spelled shawarma) shop I was fond of. That was located next to St Catherine’s church. Easy to find.

    https://www.gpsmycity.com/attractions/saint-catherines-church-(catharinakerk)-47175.html .

    The shoarama shop was not busy. Just me and two guys sitting together that I thought looked middle eastern, not Dutch or Indonesian-Dutch. They kept giving me creepy sideways glances, that I found annoying because, well, we all had recently been given good reasons not to trust people that looked like them.

    Three years later I learned the investigation into the 9-11 attacks discovered Muslims in the mosque in Eindhoven had provided material support to the 9-11 killers. There are WSJ online articles about it, but you cannot read the whole article without a subscription.

    Who knows, maybe the two guys I saw in the shoarama shop may have had knowledge of the support provided by members of that mosque to the 9-11 mass killers. Earlier this summer a group opposed to the Islamization of the Netherlands held a protest march in the city that ended with a pork roast in front of the mosque. I guess the famous Dutch tolerance has it’s limits, and only goes so far.

    I didn’t even know there was a mosque in Eindhoven. Mostly what you see towering above most buildings in Eindhoven are 7 or so church spires of catholic churches.

    The last time I was in Eindhoven the shoarama shop had been taken over by archeologists. After the buildings across the street had been leveled, to be replaced with more modern buildings, & a city square. It was discovered they were built atop graves that had surrounded the original St. Catherine’s church. Many were people who had died from the plague or survived it. One was a young boy, who was buried with a crusader’s metal. There was great interest in medieval DNA. A certain DNA mutation [ called the CCR5D32 allele]seems to enable people to survive pandemics. It is thought understanding this DNA mutation might lead to cures or vaccines for AIDS, cancer, malaria, etc. I think the goal was to find DNA in the bones of people who survived the plague, and hopefully use old cemetery maps to ID them, and find living descendants and check if they too have the [ CCR5D32 allele ]DNA mutation.

    https://archive.archaeology.org/0711/abstracts/blackdeath.html .

    Anyway, being in Eindhoven was the only time I was near any location that had any connection to the planning of the 9-11 attacks. Everything else was just seen on TV.

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  51. I was with my son in Ottawa helping with last minute details after a week in Univeristy. We were in his new apartment getting him settled with plans to shop for a new computer desk chair. His landlord came downstairs and told us we might want to turn on the tv, as she knew I was American. I called my husband who was a teacher. I knew there were no radios or tv’s running in the school, and I wanted him to be able to be with his students as they learned what was happening next door in the U.S. My son and I did go and buy the chair, then I left for my 5 hour drive north to home. I just wanted to keep on driving to come home to the U.S., but that emotional draw needed to be tamped down.

    I, like many others, was glued to my tv for days. My nephew was working in the financial district and lost a number of friends that day. His mother, father and brother were at our hunt camp, out of any tech reach, so I taped everything as it came on the tv for them to watch if they wanted when they returned Friday afternoon.

    To this day, I feel that same draw to “go home” to my beloved country every September 11, yet my roots are in Canada, with children and grandchildren. My love for American is never stronger than this day.

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  52. @BFH since you asked.

    I was getting ready for a client design meeting in a place called Maple Grove Cemetery, in Queens. About 25 miles away.

    Well when the attacks started we figured there would be NO meeting, specifically because the bridges were closed.

    So, instead, me and a friend of my, went out to a precipice on the Hudson and could see the plume burning all the way down the throat of the River.

    There were ceremonies in that cemetery, where the new project was, that were occurring for a couple of YEARS after 9-11 when bodies would be recovered at Ground Zero and interred in the cemetery.

    What were YOU doing at the time @BFH?

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  54. We were on a 2 week vacation in the Hawaiian Islands. We were in week one on Molokai, the 2nd week was to be in Kauai. I was waiting on my wife to complete her morning routine so we could head out to breakfast. The television is virtually never on during the day at home and certainly not while on vacation but I decided to turn it on while I waited for her.

    I though I had turned on some unbelievable realistic movie depiction of a catastrophe. The time difference that time of year between HST and EST is 6 hours (no DST in Hawaii) so the towers had both already come down. Of course I did not know that initially. So it was even more unsettling to know that it had happened and had happened so much earlier in the day. We lived in the EST time zone so the time change and 11 hours of travel getting to Molokai was still kinda kicking our butts.

    They shut down the airport and orders were that all cars parked with x feet of the airport had to be removed. Molokai is small and so was the airport. If there was even more than one tow truck on the island I would be surprised but the orders meant that every car surrounding the airport had to be moved/towed. I guess they found someplace to stash them.

    Things loosened up such that we were able to make the scheduled flight to Kauai for the second week.

    Every year I get to thinking about the choices some people had to make between burning to death or jumping to their deaths. It both saddens me and angers me.

    Now, in 2020, I fear that some previously unthinkable choices are going to be facing many of us later this year. The left must be eradicated because that is the only thing they are going to understand. They have declared their own form of Jihad against our way of life and we need to very quickly wise up. We as humans, have a way of rationalizing away that which is right in front of us while it is occurring. The civil war has already started.

    Mohamed Atta is alive and well, has a beard, lives in Portland and other Dem hell-holes across the land. He doesn’t need to fly a plane, his is a ground game.

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  57. I was on a mountaintop with my muzzleloader in Colorado waiting for it to become light enough to see an elk. Just as the sun rose in the east, the planes must have been smashing into the towers in New York. There is a two hour time difference. I stopped to take a photo of the snow-capped mountains to the west as the sunlight lit them up. It was beautiful. After I put my camera back in my pocket, I looked down the open clearing I was standing at the top of and spotted a huge bull elk seventy-five yards away standing broadside and staring at me. I couldn’t have missed, but alas, I had a cow tag and couldn’t shoot him. I didn’t learn about the attack until three days later when I came off the mountain and went to town.

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