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MEMBERS DISCUSSION AREA => General Discussion => Topic started by: Blue J on September 11, 2017, 09:37:34 AM
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I was home sick with the flu. When my wife called saying a plane had struck the World Trade Center. I turned on the TV, I forget what channel. I saw the 2nd plane hit. It was shocking. It still is. I will never forget that day. We are not Democrats and Republicans. We are Americans.
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I was standing outside the commons area at college. Everybody's lives changed that day.
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I was in the process of submitting an application for a consulting gig in Philadelphia. Wife came into the home office to tell me a plane had hit a building.
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I was listening to 99x on my way to work. They were piping through CNN.
I got to work and got some project stuff done.
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I was working from home that morning and was scheduled to fly to SFO that afternoon for a sales meeting. One of my team members called me and told me a plane hit the WTC. Most of that day was spent tracking down members of my team as we had many people scheduled to fly that day. A few got stranded as they were in transit, but fortunately everyone was safe.
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I spent most of the day in shock, just sitting around with friends watching random news. Definitely one of the more memorable days of our lifetime.
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Was sitting at my desk at work, listening to the radio... my then-wife was at home 8 months pregnant with my first son, Dakota. We turned on a TV at work and I watched for an hour or two before I just decided to leave and be with my family for the rest of the day. Still have certain images burned in my memory.
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At that time our office was located in Upper Marlboro, which is close enough that we actually heard the plane hit the Pentagon. At the time we thought maybe a bomb went off somewhere. We were outside in the parking lot listening to what was going on in NY through a car stereo and then heard the Pentagon was hit. We had crews working there and at the Whitehouse. Crazy day, the day itself was not cool, but seeing and watching all of the fighter jets flying was pretty cool. They were flying low enough that you could see the letters on them.
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Senior year of high school and I think we were in English class.
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Sitting at home recovering from ACL transplant
surgery watched all morning long, horrible feeling
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Was at work... once it happened a group of us just went to a conference room and watched the coverage all day....
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I was working in Lauderdale with a fella from corporate/national accounts.
We went into a customers office early and they told us they were watching the news in the break room, that a plane had crashed into 1 of the twin towers, and we went in and saw the 2nd plane hit. We all agreed we were under a terrorist attack. We had a short meeting and headed out.
Our next meting was in downtown Lauderdale on an upper floor of a very tall building. We began our meeting and the admins busted in crying and said that the 1st tower had fallen. At this time the national accounts fella said his nephew worked in the tower, and he couldn't reach him. He was lost.
My wife and kids were at the inlaws in the Tampa area so I headed back that way, and the national accounts fella drove a rental to New Jersey.
My cousins pilot was right seat in a USAir 757 over New York and saw the plane hit.
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Senior year of high school and I think we were in English class.
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I was also in English class, but in 2nd grade.
Jk, junior year
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I was at home watched it on the news all day
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11 grade physics class. Turned it on the tv and that's all we did for the rest of the day
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Junior year of high school. Physics class, just watched it all going down on CNN. Will never forget that day. Our teacher, Mrs Jennings, spent the rest of the day telling us how amazing our country was and how this would unite us beyond anything we had or would ever experience again.
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I was in a bar!
I worked for Red Bull when it was just coming to the United States.
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I was at the fire house. Some terrible memories but received a ton of support from the community and weeks to months after.
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I was at work. In total shock thinking that at any minute they would say it was a sick joke. Kinda like Alfred Hitchcocks "War of the Worlds".
Lots of conspiracy theories stating the US Govt provided the materials to foreigners that carried out the acts.
If true, I hope there's a special place reserved in Hell for the bastards.
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I was at work in a team meeting. Someone opened up the conference room door and said a plane had run into the WTC. They were going to the TV room to follow up. We all thought it very odd that a plane would hit a building like that and were wondering how it would happen...never thought of terrorism. 20 or so minutes later that same person came back and said another plane had hit the other tower...everyone's face went blank and it was obvious it was an attack.
Most everyone went straight home. My wife went and picked up my daughter from school I went and picked up Hayden from daycare. Watched the news as the tragedy unfolded all day. Just an amazingly horrific day.
Since that time, my company(electric utility), has spent millions on security at both our substations and our corporate headquarters in Tucker. Our campus use to be open to enter, park and walk right in to the lobby...not anymore. Multiple gates to enter, all manned by security, and no one that is not an employee walks around unchaperoned.
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I was at work and someone came by and said a plane crashed into the WTC. A bunch of people gathered in a small auditorium we had and they turned on big projection screen to the news. When we saw the second plane crashed into the other tower, everyone was shell shocked and knew it was an attack. I stayed at work most of that day but don't remember much. The next day is was really weird not hearing any planes in the sky. I went to take the GMAT that day for grad school and did horribly on it.
I had to fly into Newark to go to our Morristown, NJ office a day or two after planes were back in the air. I told people that if I saw anyone that even looked Middle Eastern getting up from their seat I was going to take them out. It was weird, sad, unbelievable driving to the airport and not seeing the WTC across the river.
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I was in college, leaving the dining hall when we ran in to someone we knew who said a plane had hit one of the WTC buildings. He didn't say much so my first thought was a privat pilot in a small aircraft had some kind of major pilot error. I ended up going on to class because I didn't realize what was actually happening since there was no tv or internet access where I was at the time. It wasn't until later when I got back to my apartment that I finally figured it out.
My sister had just moved to NYC a few months earlier, so her experience was much different than mine. She worked in a building across the street from one of the towers and if I remember correctly was in the ground level of one of the towers earlier that morning. She was right there during the impacts and then fled her building with the crowds. Once out on the street she had to witness people leaping from the buildings. Her apartment was on 33rd at the time so she along with many others took off their shoes (business dress) and ran/walked home.
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Scott's story reminded me that my best friend from high school (also a Scott) was moving from KY to New York that day. His car was packed and everything... he was going to try and go to film school but never moved.
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At the time, I was working at Sprint's internal help desk, which was pretty large at the time. Once word of the first tower strike got out everyone started streaming CNN, and the Internet connection choked in short order.
So a lot of us went to the auditorium to watch TV on the big screen. Shortly after that the towers collapsed. Everyone was walking around in disbelief.
What was typically a bustling business atmosphere, suddenly came to a screeching halt. I remember the various emotions I saw expressed that day. Shock, confusion, grief and then anger.