H!!#50...radu!
Got it!
Posted on 09/06/2022 6:00:04 PM PDT by luvie
That’s a great one!
I live in New York City. I woke up late that morning, having spent the evening on a freelance project.
I went out to find a voting booth and asked a passing man where it was.
He said, “Didn’t you hear? Elections were called off. Two airplanes ran into the World Trade Center.”
I spent the rest of the day with my client, watching the disaster on TV. SHe was waiting for her husband, who worked in that area. Luckily he got home. I didn’t dare go into Manhattan.
I wish I’d known about FR then.
My Birthday is 9/11. My wife woke me up and I figured it was some small commuter plane and rolled back over. She came in later once things were clearer. We sat and watched until the kids had to go to school iirc.
I work into the late night and could hear the propeller airplane (AWACS?) that would patrol the west coast and go right over the house in the Seattle suburbs. I would go out onto the deck and listen to it as it would head north and fade out. Thinking of what was still going on in NYC, how different the world was, etc.
And then an hour or so later it would pass overhead on its way south, and I would go outside again and ponder things some more.
Then one afternoon the family was at the grade school for a “back-to-school” picnic outside.
A regular airliner could be heard and a little girl exclaimed “An airplane!”. I recall that she sounded just surprised and not afraid.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and watched as it got closer and continued its climb off to who-no-wheres.
I was surprised by how few people died knowing how huge those towers were. I was surprised that our economy didn’t just implode with all of the high-finance companies and others in the towers.
My mom, dad and I had spent the Bi-Centennial at a fancy lunch and then dinner that my uncle had invited us to that was mid-way up one of the towers. He was a big shot at Pan Am and it was for their employees.
We watched the tall ships and then the fire works.
Several years ago my wife and two of my kids visited the site. Very somber and touching with the pools of water and the names around the edge. Watching people lay a flower on a name, or run their fingers along the lettering. So sad.
That’s one of the videos I watch too. We probably watch a lot of the same ones.
Well that made for an unforgettable birthday, not in a good way.
Children, like that little girl, came through easier than we adults because they really didn’t understand the scope of what had happened. They were lucky.
I imagine the children who lived in NYC at the time weren’t so lucky. The sound of a plane probably struck fear in their hearts for a long time.
I think we were all surprised at how few were killed, knowing so many worked in the towers. I cried as I watched the buildings collapse, thinking there were so many more people dying at that moment. Too many did die but it could have been so much worse. It’s testament to the heroes who worked so hard to get people out of the buildings.
It must be a heavy experience to go to the site in NYC. It must have touched your wife and kids in ways they’ll never forget.
Probably so. LOL!
I was inside doing things around the house while dad was out working on his boat. The very 1st sight of this tragedy I saw was on Fox News. Steve, E.D. and Bryan were covering the beginnings of this mess, than Jon Scott took over and we ended up spending the next several days watching this whole tragedy unfold.
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
It was a tough day and one we won’t forget.
I hope yesterday was a delightful day for your outing with Gizmo.
H!!I think there were many of us that sat in front of our TVs for days without doing much else. We’ll NEVER forget!
It was sitting there, waiting. LOL
It was! And now, I need to go. See ya tomorrow!
Good morning Everyone
We were at work by that time.
My office building was across the river from the Pentagon
but I hadn't heard what happened until I got a call asking if I was okay.
My windows faced the opposite direction so
I had run to another room to see across the river.
I could see the black smoke.
No one knew what was going on but one of the men
in the office turned on the tv in his office and that's when we knew.
I was stunned. We were glued to the tv most of the day.
Of course, there was no way to get off the base because
traffic was backed up everywhere; sitting ducks too.
Forget? Never.
And for anyone who says that we need to stop
remembering this tragic day and those
who perished due to evil
because it incites hatred, I say, if we forget,
we open the doors to bigger surprises.
(remember Pearl Harbor)
We hate the deed, not innocent people.
I could not let this day go by without stopping to say
THANK YOU
to all of our Service HEROES!
Remember those who gave all!
great thread, thank you
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I was also getting ready for work and watched the WTC with smoke pouring out the upper floors on Fox News and saw the 2nd plane hit the other tower. I went on to work and was soon sent home for a few days (worked for a defense contractor in the Los Angeles area overlooking the LAX airport , so odd seeing no planes that day) God bless the firemen and first resopnders, my heart still aches for them and affected families.
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a decade later i was visiting my son and on a train headed toward manhattan when i opened a newspaper that i had just bought and noticed that it was 9/11/11.. Wow what a zoo it was that day but the memorials were memorable.
I was driving to My Departments Firearms qualification class at the Pistol Range while listening to WABC 77 Radio out of New York City when I suddenly Heard Curtis Sliwa report that a Jet had flown in to the First tower at the World Trade Center on a Clear,Pristine day.There was not a cloud in the sky.So I knew it was NO accident.
I was in the operations center at the Air Force Technical Applications Center. Looked up and called the wife, and we both saw the second plane hit. I told her we were being attacked and hung up...then it got pretty active in the center. It was also the exact day I re-enlisted for my last hitch before retiring four years later. That re-enlistment document with the 11 Sep date is framed.
I live near the flight path to Los Angeles International Airport, and I had the same feeling. When an occasional plane flew by, I figured it was a military or government plane.
In the spring of '20, I had the same creepy feeling as the covid scare emptied the skies.
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