THE FREEPER CANTEEN - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning - Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The greatest military and vets in the world...and in honor of the nearly 3000 who perished that day | Monday, September 11, 2017 | LUV W and the Wonderful Canteen Support Crew

[luvie]

If the TV hadn’t been on, I wouldn’t have known anything till I got to work.

I wish I had been a FReeper then.

[W.]

I was sitting in my room switching back and forth between an episode of Mash and Fox News. I got back to Fox News and they announced an aircraft had struck the WTC. They initially reported the aircraft as a Cessna...

[luvie]

It was like the world really did stop turning.....

[mountainlion]

I was working for the FAA then. We had a new guy that asked where he could get a cup of coffee so I took him to the cafeteria. I was talking to some friends drinking coffee watching the smoke form the first tower when the second plane hit. It turned out to be a busy historic day.

[luvie]

Amen!

I’ll bet you were terrified for them! What a horror for your family!

[SkyDancer]

Sorry - GA stands for general aviation. Right after 9/11 all GA airports and GA flying were closed and suspended; it was commercial aviation that was used for the attack not some Cessna 152. It was a total over reaction (understandable, but) and caused a lot of GA airport FBO’s to go out of business not counting flying schools.

[SkyDancer]

Never said anything just yelled for me to get on the ground immediately or be shot down. It was only after landing did I find out what happened.

[henkster]

I was upstairs getting my youngest son ready for school when my wife came upstairs and said “A plane just flew into the World Trade Center.” My immediate response was “What do those people have against those buildings?” I instinctively knew who what and why. What happened later of course was stunning.

As the day went on, I thought it must have been how my parents felt on December 7, 1941. But thinking about it more, this was worse. At least the Japanese intended to properly declare war first, but botched the timing. They also attacked a legitimate military target, and were under orders to scrupulously avoid inflicting casualties on the civilian population. They also offered an opponent we could fight and defeat in traditional combat.

So much of this war was and is so different and so wrong. Admiral Yamamoto apocryphally stated “We have only awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” He was right; our terrible resolve laid waste to his country. After we’d killed him of course. But nobody said that about us 16 years ago. The resolve wasn’t there. How else can you explain that only seven years after being attacked by Muslim extremists, we put one in the White House?

[luvie]

What an unnerving situation for someone in the travel business. I’ll bet you were SO relieved to get home safe!

I flew to San Jose about 1 1/2 weeks after 9-11 to visit my AF son, and I have never before nor since seen so much patriotism in Northern California. So many flags and signs made up on the overpasses with red and blue dixie cups.

[MayflowerMadam]

I also was on FreeRepublic, at work in Corning, NY, sitting at my desk. Then all of us gravitated to TVs which were everywhere at the headquarters building of Corning Glass.

Some people were going to the restrooms to vomit.

[Beowulf9]

Drove my husband to work and on the way back stopped at my mothers house. She asked at the door, “Did you see the plane that crashed in NY?”

I thought it was like when the plane crashed into the Empire State Building in the 40s (mom worked in the building at the time). It did not bring the building down.

So I said, ‘yeah, I heard part of it on the radio’.

I came in, saw her tv, saw the Twin Towers crumbling, and sank down onto the Ottoman. Could not speak for about 30 min as I watched the news unfolding.

Btw, I live in Phx. On the way back in a Big Lot’s parking lot I saw 5 guys dressed in the same manner as Osama Bin Laden. They were all in the middle of the parking lot, in a little circle, laughing.

Before anyone knew of the connection.

[originalbuckeye]

We lived on the West Coast. I was in the shower when my husband came in and said ‘you’ll never believe what just happened!’. I figured it must have been a small plane until I saw the destruction of the first plane. Then the second plane hit and everybody knew it was terrorism. The third plane hit as I was taking our son to high school. I did go to work and, as I drove, I heard the Towers had gone down. I called my good friend, who was a long time flight attendant for American, and she answered.....I have tears in my eyes now, remembering the relief that she wasn’t working on one of the planes. How did this country go from recognizing the evil that hit us, to buckling under for so many petty demands by snowflakes AND terrorists? It boggle the mind. Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who only went to work or got on a plane. Prayers for our country, may she rise again!

[dr_lew]

Well, I was driving to work, and AFAIR, I was about to turn in to the drive, when I heard the news on the radio.

Not real clear to me. I do know that my personal outlook was entirely disrupted over the coming days. I remember in particular that Depeche Mode seemed suddenly meaningless ... and other stuff like that.

Time heals all wounds, but I remain bitter.

[luvie]

I remember that. Then they thought maybe a military aircraft. Everyone was confused...till they actually saw that 2nd plane plunge into the 2nd tower. Then we knew........

[GreyFriar]

Sitting in my cubicle on Ft. McNair, across the river east of the Pentagon. I had calling LTG Maude’s office to arrange a visit on Army business for later in the week on my schedule for the day. The airliner struck just below his office killing him and everyone in it.

[luvie]

Heavens! That would have scared me to death!

[Publius]

There were some things about the trip that made up for the general atmosphere.

I sat in the dining car with a blind English historian who lived in the south of France. We discussed World War I at length.

In the Pacific Parlor Car, which is a renovated Santa Fe bar car from the 1950s, we got free drinks due to the crisis and the train's lateness, and I sat down with another Englishman, this time from Newcastle. We discussed British rail and its legendary bridges from the early days of railroading. A lot of free liqueur put us in the right mood.

After the whole experience, I was thrilled to be home in my own bed and not stuck in San Jose or thumbing it up the road 1930s style. When we finally held the conference in the summer of '02, it was held in Sacramento, and I drove!

[353FMG]

For many, the world continued to turn on 9/11/2001 but stopped turning on a much more traumatic event in their lives, such as when suffering a stroke or heart attack.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning? ~

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[PROCON]

..after being attacked by Muslim extremists, we put one in the White House?

Indeed, and now 8 years later, muslims are a protected and lauded minority by the left.