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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:25:05 AM

MDPA1962

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I worked second shift but was off that day, I never turned on the TV or radio, Because I was scheduled to have a morning session with a sub, and was in a bit of a hurry anticipating some fun, I got to her place only to see what she was watching on TV and to a flood of tears, she had a Brother that worked in the towers.... And by a miraculous coincidence he was running late for work that day , However she did Not Know that... took her till after Midnight to finally find out He was still safe and alive... But I will Never forget that day

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:30:58 AM

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That may be considered providence, Merc. I am glad that your appointment with death was cancelled.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:48:54 AM

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I was at college in Baltimore. My alarm went off, to the radio. Oddly enough, I left the radio on as I NEVER do. As I was brushing my teeth, I heard the DJs say something about a crash in NYC, but no real details so they just expressed condolences and move on.

I sat down to do my normal email check and on AOLs splashpage there's a picture of the towers with the headline on it. I was stunned. I read the story and then immediate turned on my roommates small tv to the news.

I wasn't sure what to do, but I had my morning class to go to. It felt so surreal passing the rooms with classes in them- so many people who hadn't heard yet. I went into the class, since it was a senior level philosophy class, most of us had known eachother awhile already. I asked if anyone had heard and they said no. I turned the TV on to watch the news- in time to see the second plane hit and the towers fall.

One of the guys made a snark about it. One of the other guys who has family in NYC shouted back and they almost got into a fight over it. I yelled at them both to just chill out and be quiet. The professor came in, saw the tv and said that obviously class was cancelled. I watched a few more minutes and then went back to my room to watch the news.

All classes were cancelled obviously. Phone calls frantically to family who worked in DC and Baltimore and NY- everyone was fine, although cell coverage was down for awhile. A lot of talk was around about people going up to NYC and down to DC to volunteer and find family. That afternoon we held a discussion forum in our dorm around the events, feelings, politics.

When I moved to NJ I realized how different it was to have lived there at the time versus across the country. I was blessed enough not to lose anyone close to me, but it's still a very difficult day. Unlike most people, I wasn't surprised that it happened- in that I didn't have some veil on and wasn't aware of the terrorism issues, and didn't consider the country invincible. So at least that illusion wasn't shattered. But it still hit me very deeply.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:52:40 AM

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I was at work when it happened. We always had the radio on quietly in the background and thats where I first heard. Then we got the internet going and saw the horrific pictures. Dont know why, but I knew immediately that it was deliberate, even before the second plane hit, though I had no idea who would actually be crazy enough to have done such a thing. Not one of us in the office that day had any connection to NY or even the US as a whole, but we all felt the same things - horror, grief and finally anger that someone had done this to ordinary people like us who were simply at work, earning a living.

I said it that day to my team, and I will repeat it here. The best thing we as normal people can do is to carry on doing what we do without fear. But I will add today that we should never forget - if remembering the victims is to incidentally celebrate AQs greatest success, as someone has said, then so be it, but that would also be to say that remembering the Holocaust would be to celebrate naziism - we all were touched by that day, and most of the world at least, can distinguish the intention from the incidental. It may have been five years, but for the families and friends of the victims, it will last a lifetime, and we should show them some solidarity in their grief on this day.
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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:52:40 AM

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I was on in Brunswick Georgia, campus of Coastal Georgia Community College. Going over submissions for the literary arts magazine.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:57:18 AM

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As sarcastic as that may be then I had just woken up and wished my mom happy birthday because yup..this's her birthday and then my uncle called and said..turn on the tv! and there it was... :/

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 9:36:19 AM

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I was at my community college, actually. They'd set up a couple of TVs in the commons area so we could watch the news reports. It was right before I had to go to my college algebra class. I saw the first building go, and since my exclaimation was the first, I suspect I was the first to think that the building had actually collapsed. No one wanted to believe that it had happened.

Oddly enough, pup was with me that day. He was visiting from SA. I was living with my parents in Houston back then. We were only dating when the towers fell. I've always thought it somehow special that my future mate was with me during a tragedy like that.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 9:48:50 AM

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I was sitting in a hospital bed with my left hand and right shoulder shattered.

Perhaps it was the drugs but I didn't feel hurt at all, when I saw the second plane hit I truly felt shattered for the first time. Someone was attacking America, MY country, they were attacking ME. I was so angry I didn't need morphine all day.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 11:42:39 AM

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I was on the way home from taking my unmentionable to school when it came on the radio. I clicked the TV on when I got home and shortly thereafter the second plane hit. It went from OMG what could have gone wrong that a plane would hit the tower to OMG this is not an accidental event. I had goosebumps and chills.

The next day was an eerie reminder. Here in KS we get a lot of planes going over since its the middle of the country. No sounds of planes, no trails in the skies. Just a calm and disquieting reminder of what had happened.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 2:44:19 PM

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No offense, Chaingang,

But I must disagree with your sentiments. I lost several people in the World Trade Centers, and the way I choose to remember and personally memorialize them has nothing to do with playing into the hands of terror.

In my family, death is a part of life, even shocking death, and testament and remembrance is a very important part of mourning and grieving.

Personally, I find this thread very interesting and strangely moving. The 9/11 bombings were a seminal moment in our nations history. On an individual level, it is more simply the loss of people we love.

Many cultures view the remembrance of the dead as sacred act. Call it what you will, giving testament, bearing witness, or just revisiting those we lost via remembrance....it is an act of love, not an act of submission to terror, in my opinion.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 2:56:33 PM

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I was at work...

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 2:57:09 PM

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I was in a very remote part of the British Columbia outback running some whitewater on the Chilko River. It wasn't till mid-afternoon on Sept 13th as I was riding in a van with a bunch of people on the way to an air strip that we had heard about it on the radio and from the van's driver. Very sad.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:09:20 PM

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I think it was around 9am .Second day at a new job, customer walked in looked at me and said "a plane just flew into the world trade center"

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:46:43 PM

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I was at work, out on the shop floor, when someone said a plane hit the Trade Center in NY. I spent the next few hours running back and forth to my computer, printing out updates from the internet, to be passed down among the people on the press line. Luckily I was so busy keeping everyone else informed, it didn't really hit me until I got home that night how horrendous the event was.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:51:13 PM

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I didnt hear, I saw.
I was waiting on the train platform, on my way to work, cursing my luck that I had missed the train that had left 10 minutes earlier. I saw the impact myself, from the platform. Later, I learned that the train I am usualy on, the one I was swearing up a storm for missing, was destroyed under the towers. Had I been on time like I had been every other day for the past year plus for work that morning... I would not be here posting this for you today.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:34:11 PM

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I had fallen asleep with the radio on and woke up to it being talked about, went and turned on the TV. A friend had crashed on the couch the night before and he woke up to me softly repeating "holy shit."

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:55:38 PM

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I was on vacation, having breakfast while I waited for my now-husband to wake up and join me. When he finally did come down, it was to tell me there had been an accident in NYC. I went back up to our room and was glued to the tv and my telephone for the rest of the day. Back then, I lived in NYC and was worried about all my friends and family, particularly my father who lived and worked near the WTC. Luckily, though, I didn't lose anyone that day.

Like most days, I had to pass through the WTC site twice today. But, today, surrounded by all the grieving families, it was a struggle to hold back tears.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:33:24 PM

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At that time I would get up early to pick up my niece and take her to school. After I dropped her off my routine was to go home, flip on the news, take a piss, and then doze on the couch until it was time to go to work. That morning I came home and the news was that a small plane had hit the World Trade Center. My first thought was: poor guy, must have had a heart attack. I ignored my need to piss and stood there watching, thinking about the hell those poor people on the top floors must be going through. The thought of terrorism didn’t even enter my mind.

That didn’t last, however, because I was only watching for two minutes or so when the second plane hit. I don’t know if I can truly describe my feelings at that moment. Like the newscaster, I was stunned into silence for a few seconds that seemed to drag on a very long time. During those few seconds, as a paradigm of my world was shattered, I thought: we’re under attack. Today is the first day of World War Three.

Quite frankly I don’t remember much of what I thought for the next few minutes except that I eventually had to answer the call of nature. When I returned from the bathroom, the first tower was gone and I had another stunned moment of silence as I tried to figure out what I was seeing. Another paradigm shattered. I have only been to New York City once but I, like so many others, associated the city with the Twin Towers. How could you have one without the other? I had hoped to go back to New York city one day and, amongst other things, dine at the famous restaurant, Windows on the World, at the top of the World Trade Center. Now I knew that would never happen and it pissed me off. I know how incredibly self centered and callous that sounds, given how much so many suffered that day, but that is what I was feeling.

As events unfolded I remember saying Holy Shit! a lot. I remember hearing one of my neighbors shout, we should nuke all them mother fuckers and let God sort them out! I remember agreeing. It is a good thing for the world that my finger wasn’t on the button that day. Say what you will about George Bush, he kept a cooler head than I would have on September 11th.

Eventually I went into work, arriving two hours late (I could get away with it because it is a family business). That afternoon I had to run an errand that was an hour’s drive away. The world looks different somehow, I thought. At first I thought it was my imagination. I assumed I was in a state of shock. But as I drove along, looking at the other people in their cars, walking on the sidewalks, I realized there was something very different. Normally, as we go about our lives, we avoid eye contact with strangers, making such eye contact only when necessary. Not that day. That day everybody looked each other in the eyes.

My condolences and my prayers to all the victims and their families and friends. May the Creator grant you peace.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 7:49:12 PM

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I was driving to work, listening to the Howard Stern show, at first I thought they were just making it up, then switched channels, and found it was true, pretty much listened to the radio and watched T.V. the rest of the day.

I mostly felt angry, and pissed. Very good thing I wasn't president that day.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 8:28:06 PM

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I woke up from my mother in law calling, frantic. I turned on the TV and could not believe my eyes. I felt I had been personally attacked. I went to work, but we all went home early that day. My Master at the time had 74 employees in the WTC, who all escaped (he worked a few blocks over). A former co-worker of mine lost his wife, who was in one of the planes, on her way to San Diego to spend some quality time with her son. I went to Ground Zero last year in my visit to NYC and was moved by the plaque which listed the names of those killed.

I pray our hearts are never diluted to the point where 9/11 loses its meaning to us. My heart breaks every time I see the video footage of what occurred that day. As well it should.

Thank you, Level, for this thread, and to the others who posted threads of this kind.

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