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September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:09:15 AM

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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.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:16:39 AM

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It was about 1:30 PM, AP Economics class when I first heard about it from the rest of the class talking about it. I never heard about it in the morning when it happened because I was late for school and I went the entire day completly oblivious. Pretty suprising to prolly be the last person in the world to know.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:18:51 AM

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I was sitting at my neighborhood gas station (West coast) where I always picked up a cup of coffee/muffin and newspaper prior to work and I'd sit in my car with my paper, sipping some joe getting my last vestige of quiet time before going to work and dealing with email and phones...and I suddenly noticed the parking lot was packed with people en masse pulling over, parking all over the lot, staring out their windshields with a blank look on their faces.

So I turned on the radio, not even sure what compelled me to do so and there it was. I remember thinking "what kind of sick fucker would have such an awful radio show on" (think "War of the Worlds" drama) in the weekday during business hours.

I vowed never to listen to that station again for their sick sense of humor and switched the channel.

Then I switched the channel again.

That's when it hit me.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:39:17 AM

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We play into the hands of the murderers of that day to give this event so much weight in our lives. It's time to move on - its been five years already.

This is not the way to mourn the people that died that day. Remember them for the all the things they accomplished in their lives, not for the meaninglessness of their deaths. Remember them on their birth days, or for a special day in their lives - but not for this.

That's how I see it.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:39:24 AM

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My business partner and i had just stopped at a clients to pick up a key for an office unit we were cleaning, it was about 8:30 am. She got back into the car and said "a plane just hit one of the twin towers" We cleaned that office with our car parked right in front of the door, so we could hear the radio commentary. The next client we went to, they were glued to the television, we were too for about 20 minutes, That client rescheduled, and i remember going home and following commentary on the radio and TV till about 3 in the afternoon. It was quite surreal. I remember talking to my kids about it when they got home from school...
It's strange, because for years, i can remember being grateful that in my lifetime, to that point, our country hadn't experienced such a monumental "where were you when it happened" tragic event..

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:44:56 AM

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I was at work. My boss was out of state, and called me. As we were talking, she told me a plane hit the second tower. I spent most of the day listening to the radio and reading on-line (when I could get on a news website).

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:47:42 AM

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I was living in Michigan at the time........Thorns was still in Germany, packing to make His move back to the states at the end of September.
We were in voice chat for over 9 hours, sometimes not saying anything, sometimes just talking as if there were not enough words to say. I was scared and pissed all at the same time. It brings tears to my eyes to this day.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 4:55:59 AM

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I'd got up to get my daughter off to school - it was actually 7am on the morning of September 12 in New Zealand. I'd switched on the TV to catch the news headlines and stood there totally gobsmacked watching the towers in flames.

Luckily my daughter made the school bus on time, but I went back inside and kept watching.....feeling sick inside the whole time. It was like watching a disaster movie, and I had to keep telling myself this was no movie, this was real.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:31:59 AM

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I had just walked the munchkins to the bus stop and was drinking coffee, watching the news and had one eye on them standing at the end of the driveway. *reflects*

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:41:49 AM

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I was at work at the university library. It must have been around four o'clock when a colleague told us that an airplane had flown into one of the world trade center towers. The webpage showed a small hole in the side of the tower. It was my - erroneous - impression that it was a relatively small airplane and that it had been an accident. I did not take it very seriously, as I considered it a minor damage that would not endanger the tower.

About an hour later I was at home and put on the television and saw the first tower collapsing to the ground - probably it was a live image instead of a replay.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:44:35 AM

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I was making a second pot of coffee when one of my employees came in and told me to turn on the TV. I watched for a second, grabbed my 9 month old daughter, a diaper bag, and the phone and sat on the floor in shock in front of the TV for the rest of the day. That was the day my daughter took her first steps, 10 steps from me to the TV.

We've been watching a lot of the memorial shows the last few days. I can watch it a thousand more times and still be saddened by the loss. Yes, it's been 5 years, and 5 years from now I think I will feel the same sadness when I remember this day, and not just on the anniversary. Thousands of people went to work and went about their lives just as innocently as we all do every single day and lost their lives, their spouses, their children, their parents, and their families. Hundreds lost their lives saving and attempting to save the lives of others. It's certainly not meaningless.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:45:13 AM

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It was the 2nd day of class that school year and I was in homeroom at this catholic high school I attended in the north Bronx. I was the newbie there since I just moved up to NY from Florida the year before. A nun came over the PA system and requested that all children that had parents working in or around the Towers come up to the front office. I guess they were told first. Then the rest of us were told but I already knew. We were released home from school an hour later but all the trains were out and taxi's were unreasonably high so trying to get home proved difficult within the chaos.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:51:48 AM

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I was at home just getting up when my brother called and said turn on the news Sis. I did and within 10 min. watched the second tower get hit. I stayed glued to the TV all day that day just stunned, trying to grasp the magnitude of what had happened. When news came that the Pentagon had been hit as well, it started really sinking in for me. Then, hearing about the 4th plane that crashed in a field. Was all so horrifying.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 5:59:50 AM

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A friend of mine was visiting from BC, and scheduled to fly back home that day. < from Logan > I was in the living room doing a last minute check on luggage and stuff, he was in the shower. I turned on the TV and saw the first tower smoking, not paying attention to the announcer. I flipped the channel, thinking it was a clip of some weird reality show. And flipped again. I went into the bathroom and told my friend what had happened and said I would cancel my flight if I were you, something is going on. He laughed at me and said he had to go that day, get back to work, bla bla bla. I went back in the living room just in time to see the second tower get hit. He came into the living room around this time and saw it replayed and said OMG, Mia, I thought you were messing with me.
The telephone calls began flowing in from the family of my friend in BC, frantic, that he had been on one of those planes.
Later that day, I learned an old classmate of mine had been in the towers, she never made it out.
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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:05:01 AM

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I heard about the first plane going into the WTC on my car radio. When I got home I turned on the TV and watched the second plane go into the second tower. All rather surreal.

I don't mean to be disrespectful but five years have past and the world has moved on, I think it should be left to the relatives and friends of the victims to mourn and remember. I think national ceremonies just remind the world of Al Qeada's greatest success on a day that new figures were published of the number deaths in Iraq being over 3,000 a month, more than died in the WTC.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:08:03 AM

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I was getting dresssed in my bedroom watching the news when it was announced and showed the plane hitting the second tower.
It was, of course, a replay as I had a 3hr time difference and I wasn't awake when it actually happened. It was really hard to accept
what had happened.

All I can remember was thinking "It's a good thing I'm not President" and I admire Bush's restraint.
If I were President I would have demanded UBL be turned over to us or suffer the nuclear rath of
the United States. And I would hope they said no deal. Pakistan and Afghanistan would be a
nuclear wasteland as a result. I'm still angry enough to press the button.

I would have delivered a warning shot in the middle of the desert.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:11:57 AM

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I was at work, opened up the Yahoo home page, and saw pictures of the WTC towers burning. It didn't seem real. And yes, we all lost something that day.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:12:27 AM

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I was on the way to the store and heard it on the radio. It was hard to make it out over all the pandemonium, but the courier confirmed what had happened. What a numb day that turned out to be.

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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:20:20 AM

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We all remember that horrid day... when our world was attacked. Not just the USA.. but the WORLD. It happened on US soil.. but the many others that were effected by this attack continues to feel the loss daily... just as we here in America do.
It wasn't just among the dead and injured at the World Trade Centers... but the Pentagon... Flight 93..and all those that suffered loss...from the after math.
Today we think of everyone involved... the survivors, firemen, policemen, volenteers, doctors, nurses, window, children, desperate searchers in the rubble. We remember the cries of sorrow... anger... cheers of happiness when another survivor was rescued.
On this day in 2001 our world changed. Some say for the better... some say for the worse. Do we feel safer?..Do we feel scared? We each try to deal with feelings of this attack each time it's brought up on the news. We hear it's the 5th anniversary of the attack. But there's no celebration. No champagne corks popping. No party poppers going off. There are memorials.. tears.. remembering. The pain will be all new to some...to others more healing.
But one thing we shall never forget.. is the men and women of our military that died..and are still dying in the name of freedom and safety for the United States and other Countries in the world. To hopefully stop future attacks.
We can't forget the other attacks and deaths in Lodon, Spain, Russia, Japan. All in the name of terror.
So today doesn't just give us cause to stop and remember a single day ....a single attack upon a single country. But to remember... we all should pause to remember we're not alone... we are one.
We all live under the same moon and stars. Breathing the same air. Our skin is different colors.. are language is different. Politics run just as screwy .... but we all have one thing in common.. we love our families...and want them to be safe. That's what we all strive for...and as we remember the loss of life.. love.. we remember reality... and know it can happen anytime..anywhere... by anyone.
May peace be with each and everyone of you... on this day of rememberance. To those that loss .....we too remember... and we still pray you and yours... know.. we all remember too...
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RE: September 11 - 9/11/2006 6:24:54 AM

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My business originated from a company on the 97th floor of WTC-II. That day I had an appointment to renew my contract with them at 8:30. The prior night my friend and partner called to change the time to 11:30. As a result I was on the NJ Turnpike that morning instead of his conference room. He never left the building that day, nor did many other friends, business associates and hundreds of casual acquaintances.

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