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Joseff -> RE: September 11 (6/5/2009 7:49:24 PM)
Headed out the door to work, and debbie turned on the TV. I stopped to see what was going on, just as the second plane hit. We set up a TV at work when I get there and watched the towers fall there. That is something I'll never forget.

popeye1250 -> RE: September 11 (6/5/2009 8:59:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ownedgirlie 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. And I pray that "GOODNESS" is better than evil. (I think I'd probbly be right!)

Lorr47 -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 1:57:49 AM)
I was getting ready to go to work. My daughter called and said we were being attacked. Confused, I turned on The Today Show. I saw the second plane crash into the tower. Yes, something more than lives was lost that day. Even worse were the tapes of people as they jumped to their deaths rather than being burned alive. Bin Laden and those who conspired with him should be strapped to a stake and roasted alive.

AngelGeena -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 2:02:39 AM)
I was home from work that day with both of my kids who had the hand, foot and mouth virus (bleck)....I had been watching, of all things, The Crying Game, switched over and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

LadyPact -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 2:23:13 AM)
I was at work at the time. When I was told by a fellow employee, I thought it was some kind of prank. Little did I know. I had just spent My first night with MP at that time. He was on lock down from the military and emails and messages were not approved. He got one to Me through work, so that I would know he hadn't forgotten Me. He would try to come back soon. It was important to him that I didn't think it was just a sexual thing. For a military family, these past eight years have changed our lives. We're not done yet.

BrokenSaint -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 3:15:14 AM)
I remember that day pretty fairly clearly actually. Unusual, because for some reason, whenever catastrophic events happen, despite difficulties with sleep throughout my life, I'm always friggin sleeping, and disoriented as hell (Oklahoma? Check, out cold, Columbine, Check, comalike state, etc). This day was no exception, though I remember the conversation that started the day exactly. As I realize my writing style can come off as quite humorous, and this is always going to be an exceptionally touchy subject, please keep in mind, I'm writing of things as they occured, and being as descriptive as I generally try to be, rather than being disrespectful. Coming off a 3 day run, cramming the hell out of all the information I could into my brain on synesthesia (topic of a paper idea I had). 3rd night we ended up playing CoC (Call of Cthulhu, fun rpg) I hit the bed several hours before, to read laying down (if you've ever been up that long, everything starts to ache), and blessed oblivion took me. Fast forward somewhere around 9am. BANG BANG BANG Me: MRuffllefuckyougowaynowbad "Dude Wake the fuck up it's important" Me: grumble grumble WHAM fucking legs not working ugh picks self up off floor stomp stomp stomp SWING SLAM GLOWER WHAT?! IT'S BEEN 3 GODDAMN DAYS HOW IMPORTANT CAN SOMETHING BE?! "Turn on your tv" Me: You wake me for tv...............? "Just do it" Me: looking at him This had better be the fucking click apocal-looks at tv.......what the fuck? "Yeah" Me: What the fuck happened? "Plane crash" Me: Into a fucking skyscraper?! "yes" imaginary crickets BOOM 2nd plane hits Unison: Holy shit what the fuck?! "That wasn't a replay" Me: This is bad. "yes" So I went for some reason, out on campus clad valorously in traditional ceremonial college garb of bathrobe shorts I tossed on, and cthulhu slippers, to go find my girlfriend at the time, because I figured she would need some emotional comfort right then, as I was reasonably certain one of her cousin's worked in that general area. Went up to her work, and they were watching it there. Thankfully her cousin was not dead, we were pretty sure. He had been let go a month before, confirmed later. We went back to my room and a bunch of other friends had gathered. We sat and watched most of the day, things getting more and more surreal. We all were reasonably creeped the fuck out by the speaker of the house (we misheard them, rather than Hastert, we thought they said Speaker of the House, Hastur, which caused me to ponder exactly when an unnameable horror from beyond time was elected to the house), and generally just living in freaky ass nightmareworld at the general moment, the general presiding feeling over which was wanting to turn large amounts of desert real estate into a large picturesque bay window to the center of the earth. College president called for an emergency assembly out in the campus park, called off events and such, reassured people that it would be unlikely for a college to be a target ever for this sort of thing, not to panic, pray for those involved, and basically what you'd expect. We were all a bit on edge if something were to happen to Berwick, since they crashed in PA at various points people were pretty nervous. It was a loong fucked up day. Later on that week had a toast with friends to the Pyrrhic heroes of the one that went down in PA while they were storming the cockpit.

LeMis -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 5:21:45 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Christinestill damn! i thought Levelicious was back. [:(] Damn.. me too.. I know exactly where I was, I was just approaching a traffic light before the Suncoast Parkway overpass, the radio was on and one of the DJ's says, "I think a plane just flew into the Twin Towers?". I was thinking WTF, you can't see that huge thing? By the time I got back into work and was relaying what I heard on the radio someone else walked into work and said that another plane flew into the twin towers.

Irishknight -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 6:04:22 AM)
I was asleep on my parents' couch.

subrob1967 -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 9:07:36 AM)
I was in Blane Mn setting up a new Home Depot. My partner and I stopped at a grocery store for some drinks on the way into the Depot, and as we were in the check out lane, the TV above the bank in the store showed the first tower on fire, and then the second plane hit tower 2. My partner looked at me, and said fuckin Bin Ladin, just as I said Al Qaeda. Needless to say, not much work got done on the Depot that day.

susie -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 12:04:56 PM)
My parents and I woke up in our hotel room in Ukiah having spent a wonderful 3 weeks travelling around the west. My father never has the TV on in the morning but for some reason, maybe because we were flying out early next morning, he had the news on. We all sat and watched the news while deciding what we should do. Heading down to San Fransico we listened to the radio to get more news. We had booked a room at an airport hotel and had planned to take our hire car back that evening ready for the flight the next day. By the time we got close to the airport the police had blocked off some of the roads and they told us that we would not be able to take the car back so we checked into the hotel. We made lots of phone calls to sort out what we should do. The hire car company were fantastic and told us just to keep the car until the airport was open again and to continue to use it free of charge. The airline told us that we would not be able to fly out to the UK for at least another week. We tried to book further nights at the hotel but were told they now had no rooms free so we booked to head out to Reno the next morning. We decided to drive into SF that night to look for something to eat. It is not a place I enjoy driving in normally but I will always always remember driving in that night. No traffic anywhere. We headed out to Reno and from there we went to Lake Tahoe. What wonderful people we met during that last week. People who understood how we felt being stuck far away from family and friends in a strange place. The kindness and friendship we were shown that week is something that will always remain with us.

PanthersMom -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 4:04:50 PM)
having breakfast with the now ex and the youngest of the offspring when the phone rang. my now late grandma was on the phone, crying, telling me there had been an accident in new york, turn on the tv. we watched, dumbfounded and worried because we had family that we thought might still be employed there. then the second plane hit. tears and shock and anger, all at once. when we got word that another plane was at hopkins airport on the tarmack suspected of having a bomb on board, we hit the road to collect the youngsters, one of whom was in a school very close to the airport and right under the flight path to approach. driving back to the house i saw something i'd never seen in 32 yrs as a cop's daughter, the cleveland police bomb squad truck on the highway. it suddenly made the whole thing seem more real for some reason, that i wasn't just having a bad dream/hallucination or whatever. turns out the family member had left the employ of the office at wtc so we were spared that ordeal, but it was a horrible day that i would rather not "get over". i would prefer to remember what happened, who caused it and those who left home one tuesday morning and never came back. PM

downkitty -> RE: September 11 (6/6/2009 10:59:49 PM)
~FR~ I was home from work (as it was my birthday) generally being lazy and lounging, which i never seem to get to do in peace. I got a call from a very good friend and supervisor at work asking me if i heard, then telling me to turn on the TV since i hadn't. I cannot put into words the huge range of emotions i felt. I stayed glued to the TV for days, crying and fuming. Lets just say, not a birthday has passed since (or ever will) where i don't relive that to some degree. Respectfully, amy

Rule -> RE: September 11 (6/7/2009 6:08:53 AM)
Deleted, as it may have been inaccurate.

DomImus -> RE: September 11 (6/7/2009 7:37:13 AM)
I was in bed both times... when the WTC was attacked and two an a half years ago when this thread was started.

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