Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Where were you 9/11/2001?
No Source | 09/11/2019 | Vanity

Posted on 09/11/2019 6:47:01 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs

Where were you on 9/11/2001?


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; 911anniversary; chat; vanity
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-173 last
To: Jamestown1630
I’ve never again experienced one of those gorgeous September days we get in the DC area, without thinking of 9/11.

So true, today is warmer but a beautiful sky and breezy, a lot like 9/11/01.

I was in DC, working in a windowless office in L'Enfant Plaza. Received a call from my wife saying she had talked to her son who said a FEDEX plane had hit one of the twin towers. I immediately logged onto FR to see what I could find out. Followed one of the original threads and I believe within the 1st 20 posts, someone emphatically stated it was terrorism, soon after the 2nd plane hit. Heard about the Pentagon, went outside to hike about a block up to a Potomac overlook and saw the smoke/fire at the Pentagon across the river. Whole city in total gridlock, took me 3 hours to get home after waiting most of day. Surreal day.

I remember thinking/wondering how long the 'United' state of mind everyone had would last.
161 posted on 09/11/2019 11:41:14 AM PDT by ratzoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

On an American Airlines flight not making it out of Chicago. We got stacked up and was odd that there was SO MUCH traffic. Eventually deplaned into a chaotic OHare. Somehow managed to get a rental car and drove 10 hours home. That was the day I discovered AM radio. Started listening to Rush the next day and having children within the next year.


162 posted on 09/11/2019 12:17:43 PM PDT by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: caww

imo it was exactly the right time to do this

Omar spit on the graves of all who were murdered and she got away with it

This man, who lost his mother on 9/11 is holding her accountable!

I say..Bravo!


163 posted on 09/11/2019 1:30:45 PM PDT by Guenevere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 154 | View Replies]

To: nutmeg

.


164 posted on 09/11/2019 1:38:22 PM PDT by nutmeg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

9/11 was my younger son’s first chapel at school where his classroom led the chapel, he was in elementary school, and we were getting ready to go to that. This was in Hawaii (at Obama’s school). Because of the time zone difference, the attacks had already happened on the Mainland before Hawaii was awake so we woke up to the full force of what was going on.

We woke up to the TV news showing the attacks and collapse of the Towers. The school still had the chapel but obviously it was a somber affair and not what was originally intended.

The main thing I remember is how eerily silent it was when we were standing outside the chapel, because all air traffic had been grounded—you usually hear some sort of commercial jet or airplane noise constantly in Honolulu. The only time it wasn’t silent was every once in a while when you heard military jet fighters who were patrolling the skies do a fly by around the city. Essentially Oahu was in a war status because we have such a heavy military presence, and the military at that point assumed we could at some point be under attack. It was all very creepy and scary.


165 posted on 09/11/2019 1:53:56 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Guenevere

Send her back.


166 posted on 09/11/2019 1:56:27 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 163 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

See my #165 regarding a similar experience re the silence and then the fighter jets.


167 posted on 09/11/2019 2:00:03 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kaehurowing

“We woke up to the TV news showing the attacks and collapse of the Towers. The school still had the chapel but obviously it was a somber affair and not what was originally intended.”


Every time I watch “Mrs. Minniver” and the final church scene it brings back memories of that 9/11 chapel service we were at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFy71uPSXwM


168 posted on 09/11/2019 2:06:48 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 165 | View Replies]

To: EQAndyBuzz

I’m very sorry for the loss of your friends. Thousands upon thousands were impacted by this and remain in grief.


169 posted on 09/11/2019 3:29:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies]

To: Guenevere

I have to agree. The average person impacted by both 9/11 and Omar’s vicious nonchalance over this tragedy doesn’t have many opportunities to express himself in front of the world.

This man did it in his way, a way that was available to him, and it was eloquent.


170 posted on 09/11/2019 3:42:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 163 | View Replies]

To: ratzoe

I was living at the time in an apartment complex in P.G. County. Over the ensuing days and weeks after 9/11, we saw American flags sprouting on balconies, cars, in windows, EVERYWHERE, in my neighborhood.

This severe division among us didn’t really begin to happen until we elected that Obama ‘post turtle’. The division was engineered and brainwashed into the people; the natural inclination of Americans is very different.


171 posted on 09/11/2019 4:33:35 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 161 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs
I found this email at home that I had written to myself on that day: ******************************************************************** It was a day, that for me was not much different than any other day in my recent life. I got up early, ate cereal for breakfast, stayed in the shower longer than I should have and went to work the way I normally do. I got upset at the same things that always made me upset, and got excited about the kinds of things that made me excited. I walked through the day the way I always have. Until showed up in my doorway, life was pretty much the same as it had been. At 9:20 AM EST, things changed. Everything else was the same as it had been before. The sun was shining brightly with a nice breeze, Canadian Geese took to the air as they ever did. But my whole life changed at that moment. A rubicon was crossed, and it marked a division in the landscape of my life as clearly and unequivocally as a land mass is divided by an ocean on a map. When I crossed that ocean, I closed my door and was unable to look back at the land I had left behind me, because I knew it was in the past, and the voyage ahead of me was going to be very different than the one I left behind.
172 posted on 09/11/2019 6:00:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Big Red Clay

At the time I worked at Mutual of Omaha downtown, but I lived and still live in Bellevue. Retired from the AF in 94 out of Offutt and the last assignment I was in made me familiar with emergency relocation of the president so seeing AF1 land made perfect sense. At work we didn’t have full internet access at our desks and no TVs immediately available, only radio. Seeing the film footage of what I had listened to all day was disturbing. I had just passed 30 years total time and had been moved to the permanent retired rolls, but I wondered if there would be a call up of retirees. It wasn’t like the rapid callup of the first gulf war so that didn’t happen. I knew some people in other call centers that were also approached by the presidential communications people.


173 posted on 09/11/2019 9:26:32 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-173 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson