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Where were you? - 9/11/2010 6:57:06 AM

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Do you remember where you were at the time it made the media?

I think people may forget to pay a bill, or even a loved ones birthday, but I'm guessing that day in history will be recalled in memory just as crystal clear today as it was then. At least for myself it is. Anyone else?

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 7:02:03 AM

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I was at work,Diane called me crying begging me to come home she shouted in my ear they bombed the fucking trade center come home now..Bounty

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 7:08:38 AM

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From across the river in NJ.Could have been a mile or so away but it looked like right next to us.Saw the 2nd jet fly in and then saw the tower falling,then the other one falling.

Then I watched for days after, the plum of smoke that rose and drifted south and out to sea.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 7:58:04 AM

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Do you remember where you were at the time it made the media?

I think people may forget to pay a bill, or even a loved ones birthday, but I'm guessing that day in history will be recalled in memory just as crystal clear today as it was then. At least for myself it is. Anyone else?

Yeah...I was sleeping in and not going to school lol. I got woken up by the TV in the other room saying stuff like "America is under attack" at like 9 AM and staying in bed just listening through the door for awhile...my dad worked in a skyscraper in downtown Chicago that had a lot of government offices so he'd been sent home right away. It was really freaky...my best friend and her bf at the time came over later that day and I remember how absolutely angry he was, saying he wanted to join the military (he didn't. lol.) and kill them for attacking us and stuff.

I was totally scared to take the train for awhile and it seemed like a lot of people were freaked out...my mom started watching CNN for like hours at a time back then and she was really depressed.

Fortunately, neither I nor anyone I was close to lost anybody that day, I can't begin to imagine how they remember it.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 7:58:08 AM

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Also across the river, and frantically dialing friends/colleagues on land lines and my cell.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:00:59 AM

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I rremember it as vividly as the day it happened. At the time, I was managing the office/store of my husband's landscaping business. The phone rang and our accountant was on the other line. Her and I were both ex-NYer's. She used to work in building 2 of the WTC when she lived there. She was telling me a plane hit building one and we were talking idly about it, speculating on what it was. A commercial jet wasn't even in the conversation. We were kind of heading towards the way of maybe an inexperienced flyer ramming into the building when in the midst of our conversation she saw on the TV that the second building was hit. We then realized the first building being hit was probably not an inexperienced flyer and that something was up. Then we heard about the 3rd plane in PA and I started worrying a plane could bomb dive anywhere in America. My imagination went into high gear and I was scared something could happen in Florida all that day.

I will never forget that day. I will never forget all the Americans it killed that day, and all that are still in ill health being first responders to that horrible incident.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:01:42 AM

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PA has 12 nuclear plants.

I was afraid one would be hit.

I lived at the old place back then- across the river.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:26:13 AM

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I was at work, same place I work now, glued to CNN online.

We didn't get a lot of work done that day and it was unusually quiet in Iowa City.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:26:19 AM

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This like the previous generation remembering where they were when JFK was shot...

I was home, getting ready for my first day of work for that school year. My kids were ready, i had a habit of turning on the news once i was ready myself. and i did that, just as the second plane hit. Katie Couric was on... I lived on the west coast then, so 6 am for me, was 9 am for them... I didn't really feel panic until the Pentegon was hit. Then so many reports of other planes.. it was very scary, i did not want my kids to leave the house. I called my mother as she was scheduled to fly that day. needless to say, they didn't fly for as week.

I just remember shock, and fear.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:37:59 AM

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I was working in a high rise in downtown Chicago literally in the shadow of the Sears Tower. I remember that a lot of people got cell calls on the "L" as I rode in and I heard something about a plane hitting the WTC. I assumed it was a small plane and some sort of accident. I walked into the office, passing the TV in the lobby showing CNN, literally as the second plane hit. That's when I knew it was an attack. We watched in horror as first one tower and then the other came down. The building management decided to close the building so we canceled apointments etc. and got out.

I got home and went out to the lake front to get away from the TV and radio. Normally on a clear day you can see the jets in the appoach pattern for O'hare all over the sky but by then the sky was clear. It was almost as unnerving as any other part of the day.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 8:46:05 AM

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I was working in a children's home in Germany at that time when all of a sudden my manager came along talking about what happened...to be honest at first I had no idea what she was talking about the way how she talked about it...but that then changed of course once she turned on the TV. The following days our kids had a heck of a lot of questions and the girls were scared from seeing the pictures in the news and I hated it that most of their questions I was unable to answer as many aspects I did not understand myself at that time with having been not overly interested about politics further away at the beginning of my twenties. This was pretty much the only programme coming on TV on that evening in my area.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:05:35 AM

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I had driven all night to get home off the road and was awakened by my wifes repeated calls. She told me to turn on the Tv and I sat there most of the day... The Guard, the Reserves, and the Air Marshalls all found me ineligible due to age.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:13:02 AM

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I was at work- hanging out with a friend/colleague (who happened to be born today). Heard the first reports of a plane crash and like everybody else assumed that it was a light plane that hit Tower 1. But watching a news feed on my friends colleague with him when the second jet blew into Tower 2- that made it plain what was happening. I went for a walk- it was a beautiful day, and when I got back, I remember my sister calling. She was an EMT in Brooklyn (one of those first responders who got sick and still hasn't gotten a dime of workmen's comp.) and her freaking out, wanting to make sure that there was water and emergency supplies in the house in Stamford. I remember getting water jugs together and getting ready to leave the office when my boss threw one of his hissy fits demanding that I stay put and work. (He was a big reason for me opening up my own business. I despise the greedy old SOB.) I told him I was leaving and he threatened to dock my pay for a day. (He did.) After that, things get hazy. I have no idea how I wound up in Rocky Hill (about 60 miles away), having lunch at a Friendlys- and the rest of the day is gone from my memory. I do recall shaking with rage though....

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:21:36 AM

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I was leaving gym class heading to English. The halls had that eerie hush over them. People were talking but it was hushed and kinda worried sounding. As I made my way from the common's area to my class, I just saw the look of worry and horror on faces. I kinda remember a few friends pulling me aside and asking had I heard. The closer I got to class rooms, the more the news reports echoed down the hallways, and the slower time felt like it was moving. Rest of that day was a blur of class discussions and just being silent. Band practice went on as usual, but we were all terrified to be out there. I went home to an empty house, curled up on my Mom's side of the bed and watched the news, and jumped out of my skin every time I heard a dog bark, or a car door shut or something.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:25:54 AM

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I got up to get my son off to school, and get ready for a class. I walked into the front room, my mom was in the front room watching the TV, and I asked her what was wrong, and she said "A plane hit a building in NY". So I sat on the couch next to her, and I was trying to process what was happening when I saw the second plane fly into the WTC. I knew it was an attack the moment that happened.

This was followed by announcements of missing planes, etc. My son had left for school by the time that happened, and I wanted to get him out. My mom talked me into leaving him in school. I called the university and they cancelled classes for a few days, because there are many Muslim students and they feared there would be retaliation towards them. Sad commentary, but it was probably a good idea.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:33:16 AM

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:46:06 AM

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The corner of 34th street and 8th avenue. Watched the smoke billowing. Turned and walked North.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 9:50:09 AM

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I was at work. The principal came around telling us about what was going on and instructed no one to turn on the news (elementary school). We heard radio reports in the managers office and parents started coming to pick up their children.

When I got home about 2 that afternoon and turned the tv on, that is when it hit me. I called my boss and said damn we didnt have a clue, and I tried to describe what I was seeing on tv.

Family called, and we sat in silence watching the images on tv. The next week was surreal in many ways, but I remember people being nicer, people looking shell shocked, and people unable to believe it had happened.

I finally cried the night this aired on tv. By the end of this song, I was literally sobbing. I looked it up before posting this and listened to it. It still brings tears to my eyes, because it was so raw and fresh, so from the heart, I was amazed that he had written it that quickly and he had been able to cover so many reactions and emotions.

Damn, what a day and week and month that was.........just remembering has made me realize sometimes we forget what is really important, and we let the small stuff get to us......once again, I am gonna resolve to not sweat the small stuff, and try to remember that 99.98% is just small stuff.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 10:03:39 AM

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I was at my home in Florida, my friend had called me, and told me turn on the news, and that our mutual friend Jackie had just gotten a job in one of the towers, and was working.

I watched from home, glued to this little tv my roomies and I had. My father called, to make sure I didn't take off again to NY. Jackie died along with the thousands of others.

When I first came back to NY for the funeral, I couldn't believe the site of emptiness, where all the buildings once stood. I was younger then, I was distraught, and I was mad. I'm older, wiser, still distraught, and still mad. -- I will never forget.

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RE: Where were you? - 9/11/2010 10:07:31 AM

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At work at the time, heard it on the radio, the first strike which the radio said was a light aircraft, then unusual reporting over the radio, all machines stopped and we listened. Sod that, upstairs we all trooped into the bosses office and put his tv on only to watch as the second plane went in. We all hung around the tv, the boss told us to go back to work as he had a business to run, somehow I felt he failed to see the significance of what had just happened. We went back to our workspaces and just hung around talking, sort of feeling a massive dread. The radio was still on and more was happening, and the thought to me was that's it, a war is starting, things will never be the same again. Comments being made on the radio, where was Bush, Bush was missing, keeping well out of the way.

Prior to the atrocity of 9/11, Bush did not figure on my radar, he was just another US president, but when he uttered his words of crusade, I then though you utter and complete twat, why use that fucking word, as I knew what crusade meant and it was as if Bush was waging war against Islam. Something I understand the Muslims also took to mean only one thing also, the Christians war machine was coming, the jihad was upon them.

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