I was at work (federal government) when this all happened. We listened on the radio and some watched the one TV in the building and reported back. About noon, all FedGov employees were sent home. I remember being on my deck that afternoon and listening to the silence. Little road traffic and no air traffic. The only plane I saw or heard all afternoon was a Navy F-14 zipping by about 500 ft above.
-Jim
8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
Re:8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
"My God, if we've not got a cool brain and a big one too, to manage this affair, the nation is ruined forever." Unknown private, 14th Vermont, 2 July 1863
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Re:8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
I was asleep in bed.
I woke up, and found it wasn't a school day!
No, probably not a good reason to not have school.
I just watched a brief story on the history channel, actually seeing the towers collapse for the first time. What I find that was amazing, is that for the entire group of 3000 people that died, there were 19 terrorists that also died.
Its kinda sad, those 20-year-olds, having a school that is hours away, or not going to school, failing at life due to the lack of education, and being welcomed with open arms by the Taliban and other terrorist groups. I just wish that all those leaders actually will go to Allah (I hope I don't offend anyone here), so that way we can have some peace. They send all the young men to blow themselves up, telling them that they will have done good in the eyes of Allah. Why don't the ringleaders want to look good in the eyes of Allah?
I woke up, and found it wasn't a school day!
No, probably not a good reason to not have school.
I just watched a brief story on the history channel, actually seeing the towers collapse for the first time. What I find that was amazing, is that for the entire group of 3000 people that died, there were 19 terrorists that also died.
Its kinda sad, those 20-year-olds, having a school that is hours away, or not going to school, failing at life due to the lack of education, and being welcomed with open arms by the Taliban and other terrorist groups. I just wish that all those leaders actually will go to Allah (I hope I don't offend anyone here), so that way we can have some peace. They send all the young men to blow themselves up, telling them that they will have done good in the eyes of Allah. Why don't the ringleaders want to look good in the eyes of Allah?
Hancock the Superb
Re:8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
I started that day taking my middle son to his first day of preschool. My oldest son was at kindergarten. I had my twins in a baby jogger and just got back from a run. It was the bluest sky I had ever seen. Got a call from my sister in law that they weren't sure where my brother in law was. He is NYFD Ladder 27. I turned on the news and spent the day trying to get in touch with him as well as some other friends that work in the financial district, Goldman Sachs mostly. Finally at about 3PM we got a call. He was OK. Ladder 27 lost 3 FF's that day. I knew those guys from family picnics as well as the Rescue 3 guys. They are a south Bronx house but the guys get detailed out all the time to other houses. I don't think I have ever in my life felt that helpless. A feeling that was replaced by an anger that remains to this day.
Greg
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Re:8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
Gfran64 wrote:
My dad's a paramedic, so when I think of 9/11, I immediately think of the First Responders, and the 343 FFs who never returned home. All gave some, some gave all. May they all rest in peace. There was a station where 19 men jumped on a truck, and none of them came back. When I was older and realized the magnitude of it all, it made me angry that it took such a tragedy to make people fully realize the extent of danger that Rescue Workers put themselves in.
I started that day taking my middle son to his first day of preschool. My oldest son was at kindergarten. I had my twins in a baby jogger and just got back from a run. It was the bluest sky I had ever seen. Got a call from my sister in law that they weren't sure where my brother in law was. He is NYFD Ladder 27. I turned on the news and spent the day trying to get in touch with him as well as some other friends that work in the financial district, Goldman Sachs mostly. Finally at about 3PM we got a call. He was OK. Ladder 27 lost 3 FF's that day. I knew those guys from family picnics as well as the Rescue 3 guys. They are a south Bronx house but the guys get detailed out all the time to other houses. I don't think I have ever in my life felt that helpless. A feeling that was replaced by an anger that remains to this day.
Greg
My dad's a paramedic, so when I think of 9/11, I immediately think of the First Responders, and the 343 FFs who never returned home. All gave some, some gave all. May they all rest in peace. There was a station where 19 men jumped on a truck, and none of them came back. When I was older and realized the magnitude of it all, it made me angry that it took such a tragedy to make people fully realize the extent of danger that Rescue Workers put themselves in.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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Re:8 Years, it may as well be 800, we will never forget.
I was working in Blantyre, Malawi at the time. I was heading back to our office and heard the news on the radio. It was already afternoon in Malawi, but it had just happened. It was really surreal. I remember simply saying to a colleague, "Wow.... this is huge..." At the time, I don't think I realized just how huge it was and I would tend to agree with Norb's comments about the after-effects.
