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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 8:35:08 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 8:54:51 PM

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I was living alone on that day, and talking to my best friend on the phone. He was idly watching TV and I was tidying my house as we were chatting. He said "A plane just flew into the World Trade Center." At first I thought he was talking about a movie, then I thought he was making a bad joke and finally I was trying to dredge up an image of the WTC in my mind. My first fifteen to twenty minutes of news was Dave numbly repeating what he was seeing and me saying, "What?!?" Finally, unable to process and not wanting to be alone, I drove over to his house and we vacillated between being being glued to the TV screen and shutting it off and sitting in silence. It felt like our foreign-policy chickens had come home to roost.

We drove around later that day, feeling completely unmoored; it was obscenely beautiful out.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 9:03:34 PM

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I was two blocks away to the south of the towers just off lower Broadway. I was standing at a bank of windows with several other co-workers watching the first tower burn~all of us thinking it was an accident with a small plane~when the second plane came roaring passed us at seemingly eye level and smashed into the tower as we all watched in stunned silence. I swear the noise was the same sound you hear when you pop open a soda can, that metal breaking through metal noise. The plane made a perfect cookie cutter shape of itself for a second before the explosion engulfed the impact point.
Of course, after that, complete mayhem~running down 10 flights with knees buckling, certain the next plane would come diving up Broadway. Not knowing what to do, wandering around, not able to believe that the "things" falling out of the towers were people, trying to help. Got caught in the back end of the first tower falling, watched the second fall from the Village. Going from hospital to hospital trying to give blood. I eventually ended up staffing a red cross shelter in Chinatown. Didnt sleep for days~remember being almost amazed that the sun came up the next day. The memories of going back to work, shaking on the train, having to show the US Military two pieces of ID to get out of the train station and go to work~now that is something you never imagine having to do in the US. The weeks of smells, watching the trucks haul off huge griders to the dumps~all the soldiers, cops, firemen...everything.
It was the only day of my life I was actually pretty certain I would die.
Seems like it was just yesterday.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 9:12:04 PM

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I was sitting in my American Government class. Our principal, who had just transfered to us from a Manhatten school, came running into the room and told the teacher to turn the TV on. He had just got off the phone with his mother-in-law who told him that the WTC had been hit by a plane. We saw the second plane hit as well as the one that hit the Pentagon. The prinicipal then called the entire school into the auditorium where we watched the coverage on the screen there. We then saw both towers fall.

I can still remember the exact seat in the classroom that I was sitting in. Our school went crazy that day. We have a nuclear plant not too far from us, so they were concerned that that would be a target. So they sent everybody home. The school was on the campus of a University and they closed down the entire campus that day.

Ironically, that was my little brother's 16th birthday.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 10:01:16 PM

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I was a new mother, home alone and barely awake when my phone rang, with a panicky voice on the other end asking if I had heard what had happened. I spoke with a relative in New York as the final building collapsed... and we cried. I remained afraid the rest of the day, and for a while after. I didn't feel secure in my house, my country or my world.... and here was this new life I was holding in my arms... and I cried some more.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 11:06:12 PM

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I was off from work and very pregnant with the lil one. The ex called from work for me to turn on CNN, when I saw the disaster going on in ny, than later in Washington D.C. I thought the world was coming to an end on that day, so began calling my family to be together.
it was incredible... Especially scary was the lack of preparedness/understanding of what was happening by the military, so much so that they didn't intercept the pentagon crash. M

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 5:54:55 AM

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I was at work watching on TV in the customer lounge. Tallahassee florida. what a horrible day for all of us

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 5:56:20 AM

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damn! i thought Levelicious was back.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 7:17:30 AM

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I was still in high school, tenth grade and I was home very sick with a cold. I woke up about noon and turned on the television to the video of the planes hittting the towers. I didn't want to watch a war movie, I was too tired I wanted something light so I switched the channel and the same movie was there. It took me about fifteen minutes and a lot of channel changing for it to finally sink into my head that it was real and that it was on the news. no wonder all the channels had the same video.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 7:26:05 AM

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damn! i thought Levelicious was back.

Me too! Still, it was interesting revisiting what I and others wrote about that terrible day.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 7:50:56 AM

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I was at work and listening to the radio. It was a very busy morning as I worked as a line cook at a truck stop restaurant so my attention was divided between cooking and hearing the radio. It took the longest time to comprehend that the news broadcast was running longer than usual! It wasn't until a good 2 hours had past when it finally sunk in that what I was hearing was actual news and not some gimmick on the radio. I had to ask several of my coworkers if what I had been hearing in the past 2.5 hrs was true and wasn't until I was home and turned the television on and seeing the footage that it finally sunk in. Before that, it was just too surreal to be believable.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 8:02:47 AM

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Oh I do miss Level :(

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 10:02:36 AM

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i dont remember much about sept 11. the day before, one of my best friends had died, and we'd been out celebrating her life and mourning our loss with friends.

my daughter came in and woke me up, i turned on the tv for a bit and then thought to myself "WTF is wrong with people? dont they know sug died? and we havent gotten past that yet?" and i turned the tv off. in the days following, yes, it sunk it more.

for me, still about sug, her parents came down to get her things and her ex came to get their son...they all had to rent cars rather than drive from philly to jacksonville.

so for me, it doesnt hit as hard as it does others. i did know (via alt.polyamory) one person who died in the towers. his family found out his remains were identified the day after christmas. the policemen who notified the family said "we knew he had a child. we couldnt ruin christmas for your little one, too."

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 10:40:24 AM

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I was in the US Military at the time, Air Force, just graduated basic training and my technical school. I was on leave in St. Louis before reporting to my first station in Japan, and my father and I had gone camping.

On the morning of 9/11, we were packing up to go home, and my dad said he wanted to turn on some music for us to listen to while we broke camp. We didn't get music.

By this time I believe the second plane had just recently hit, and we hadn't heard anything about Pennsylvania or the Pentagon. The ranger came by and some of the other campers were talking about it.

On the drive home, I was in a bit of a daze. My dad said usually you could see a line of planes in the sky, in a holding pattern. But there was nothing. The radio station did break for a song at that time. God Bless the USA. A song I've always liked, but since that day ... i'm openly crying here just thinking about it.

I remember watching the replays on TV, and i think i actually saw the second tower go down live, or just after it did. I heard them say we were under attack. I had never even heard the name Al Quida before that day. I was frantic, terrified, convinced they were going to cancel me going to Japan and send me to the middle of the desert and that I wasn't going to make it back. My dad, who used to be in the Marines, finally calmed me down and we contacted Scott AFB. I was originally supposed to have flown out the 13th. They were able to put me in touch with my work center in Japan, and between them and here, sorted things out for me. I ended up spending another week because those who were flying overseas had been stranded until they could get flown out (two people i worked with were on that set of flights, and said if it had happened a day off from when it did, they would have been stuck in Hawaii, for all that horror ~smiles~)

I remember intensive baggage searches at the airport, bad weather (i got stuck in Alaska for a day) and when I arrived in Japan, I couldn't wrap my head around what was going on. It was less than two weeks after an act of war had been committed, so everyone was at high alert. Seeing a humvee with a machine gun pointed at the front gate, among other things ... memories I hope I never forget.

I hope that no one ever forgets what happened that day. Not so that the terrorrists get their glory, but to show that they did not get what they wanted. They did not get a quivering country. The got an upset, vengeful country. They got to see why our military is the best in the world. It's odd, but I think the following movie line sums up how I feel about it. "We will not go quietly into the night, we will not vanish without a fight, we're going to live on, we're going to survive. Today, we celebrate, our independence day!"

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 11:15:26 AM

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Sitting in my basement listening to the radio, reading emails etc. before going to work

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 1:01:21 PM

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I first heard on tv in my bedroom. I took the car to the mechanic that morning. At the shop- they were listening to a radio report. This was not a chain mechanic. Small town dude and a helper. I will never forget the look on Ricks face as long as I live. These red necks showed me a side I hadnt realized.    Rick was head of the fire company. The ladies auxiliary thru a bake sale and in a few days a crew was sent to NYC to help out. It was neat how spontaneous it was.

Later in the day- my little sister called me- to see if I was ok. By that time the plane lost over PA.

It showed me a part of small town I hadnt realized- being at the mechanic when the planes hit.    The look on Ricks face.   Rick was a great guy.    After he wife passed he gave up on life and passed away.     Best mechanic I ever had.   I still havent repalced him.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 1:55:05 PM

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I was in a theatre in Warsaw, Poland giving a workshop prior to setting up a production. I was asked to agree to the theatre closing as all the other theatres were closing but I refused and decided that the workshops went ahead to show solidarity for people in the States.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 2:58:41 PM

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I was getting dressed to testify in juvie court and pulling up my stockings as the second tower was hit. A few hours later, the army recruiter was calling me for re-enlistment (turned it down since I was 50 pounds overweight then). I still wonder why they kept my name in the books after all of those years.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 5:42:04 PM

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damn! i thought Levelicious was back.

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RE: September 11 - 6/5/2009 5:48:55 PM

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Where were you when you heard?

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Where were you when you heard?

I was in my kitchen, when I heard Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show speaking with some urgency. I walked back to the television, and saw the world change.

We all lost something that day, whether you realize it or not. My heartfelt sympathy goes to those that lost the most on that day, and to those that were left behind, to make sense of what happened.

PS - This thread is not for those that want to rant and rave. There's plenty of places for that, if you're in need to do so.

I was in my car....certain it wasn't true, having coffee...reading my daily....confident that it was some sick radio "personalities" vision of some kind of bad dream / local marketing gimmick to sell lawn mowers.

It wasn't anything of such.

It was horrifying.

To say that I didn't have words...would be misleading...I had plenty of them...none of them made any sense. I couldn't breathe.

I'll never forget that day.

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