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9/11 - Where were you?; and what were you thinking?
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yawnzzz Sep 9 2011, 08:33 PM Post #16
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In a hospital room with my wife. She was pregnant and they wanted to induce labor on her because of preeclampsia. We fianally had to come out and tell them, not only no on inducing labor, but hell no. It was a surreal moment as everything I knew was going haywire (I worked for an American Airlines at the time on their reservation system). My wife was given drugs, hooked to a fetal monitor and confined to bed rest for the duration of the pregnenacy. My daughter was born 7 long days later when the doctor decided he could wait no longer for her to come out on her own.
Wow, that must have been intense. I couldn't imagine experiencing that day with a pregnant wife under those circumstances.
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benhyoung14 Sep 9 2011, 09:16 PM Post #17
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I was in Marine Corps boot camp wondering which country I was going to get dropped into first, and then I was just focused on the training. Most of the drill instructors were off base at the time so they were locked off base. San Diego airport was right next door and shut down. We about shit our pants when they allowed a plane to land. The fun part was when they told us we were all infantry.
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I was working community service (long, long drunk story from a long night at Harry's) at a local charity in Layflat. Soph at Purdue. The images on the TV stopped everything. Traffic even, no cars, nothing. Everyone was glued to the TV as the images were just amazing and horrible all at the same time. I will remember it for the rest of my life.

What was I thinking? Some poor shithole on the other side of the world was about to get carpet-bombed the fuck out by some B-52s
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I was getting ready to go into work, and my wife turned on the TV to do a workout tape. We watched for awhile, and then I decided to take the day off and work on a new sprinkler system I started a few days before.
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I was working community service (long, long drunk story from a long night at Harry's) at a local charity in Layflat. Soph at Purdue. The images on the TV stopped everything. Traffic even, no cars, nothing. Everyone was glued to the TV as the images were just amazing and horrible all at the same time. I will remember it for the rest of my life.

What was I thinking? Some poor shithole on the other side of the world was about to get carpet-bombed the fuck out by some B-52s
Let's hear about the long, long night and what happened at Harry's.
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I was getting ready for school and saw when the news cut over to coverage of the tower already hit by the first plane. My sister drove me into school b/c my car was broke down. Ran to my locker and got my spanish book for first period. Ran into class and turned on the tv in the classroom, and not even 5 seconds after turning on the tv I watch the 2nd tower get hit. I then got into an arguement with my teacher (he was from Spain and barely spoke english) about that I couldn't turn on the tv. I told him to shut up and look at the tv, his jaw dropped the second he looked at the tv. I was the only one in my first class thathad any clue what was going on.

My next thought was that I needed to get a hold of mom b/c she had just started working for the federal courthouse in Jacksonville, FL. My great school locked down all the pay phones and the news the rest of the day, so we were in the dark until we got out of school. Finally got home after school turned the news on and got a hold of my mom. That was a very long day not knowing if anything else happened.
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I was sleeping when the first one hit (was living on the west coast). Woke up from my stoner friend calling me saying, "duuude. man, we're at fucking war man." "uhh...dude, go to bed, you're just trippin'." "nahh, seriously man, the world's fucking blowing up man." "*click*"

Then I got up and turned on CNN and just sat there alone for an hour watching the news. Then I drove to work (i was working in a mall at the time), wondering if we even had to work that day. It's strange, we've seen a lot of national tragedies, but this was the first time the whole country shut down for a good week.

I remember spending a lot of time outside for the next week just looking up in the sky in amazement that there were no planes (outside of the occasional F-16). I lived directly under the Sea-Tac flight path at the time. Very bizarre time.

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I was sleeping when the first one hit (was living on the west coast). Woke up from my stoner friend calling me saying, "duuude. man, we're at fucking war man." "uhh...dude, go to bed, you're just trippin'." "nahh, seriously man, the world's fucking blowing up man." "*click*"

Then I got up and turned on CNN and just sat there alone for an hour watching the news. Then I drove to work (i was working in a mall at the time), wondering if we even had to work that day. It's strange, we've seen a lot of national tragedies, but this was the first time the whole country shut down for a good week.

I remember spending a lot of time outside for the next week just looking up in the sky in amazement that there were no planes (outside of the occasional F-16). I lived directly under the Sea-Tac flight path at the time. Very bizarre time.

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I lived in Rushville at the time, and rember 3 sonic booms in a hr span on 9/11
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I was in 5th grade, the class clown, in a teachers class that was going to retire after this year. He was cool as hell and let us just fuck off most of the time. Fun class really. But we watched it all on TV. Every classroom did in my elementary school. We didn't do anything the rest of the day. It's pretty fucked up to watch it all really. Everyone was just panicked/stunned/shocked at the event.

I remember getting a Big Dogs shirt that said "Hasta La Vista, Bin Laden" with him in a hotdog bun lol.


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I was teaching when a colleague came in and said a plane had hit the WTC. About five minutes later, he came in and said that a second plane had hit the towers. After that hour of class, most of the day was spent having students watch the developments.
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I had flown into Baltimore on 9/10 for a job interview. Spent the day in the DC metro area and northwestern Va. Drove up to Reading, Pa that night and had final stage of interview 7:30 am on 9/11 and was to fly home from Baltimore 2:30 pm that afternoon.

First heard of attack on the drive back to DC. Remember getting back into the city and seeing the smoke from the Pentagon. Later that day was standing next to the person that took a call from the coroner's office asking about renting a refridgerated truck because they were unsure they could handle the possible number of bodies.

Spent the night of 9/11 in DC and drove back to Kansas City the following day. Wife no longer was willing to move to the DC area and two months later we returned to Indiana when taking a promotion to Fort Wayne.

Will never forget the image of the smoke from the Pentagon and the petrified look on faces in the DC area.
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Can't believe it's been a decade since it happened. I can only imagine the victims' families and friends emotions. I'm damn proud to be an American.
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Mr Gray Sep 11 2011, 07:51 AM Post #28
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Another thing I remember, was how weird it seemed that night without a single plane in the sky. We sat outside and looked up for hours talking about what had happened....there was something powerful about realizing that our entire airline industry was grounded.
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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If you have an extra 4 minutes and some tissue, please watch this. I hadn't cried for about 7 years, but this made it easy.

[utube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtCCvduQmQo[/utube]
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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I took off out of Newark at around 2 AM on the 11th, dreading the 8 hour flight to Paris. As we got airborne, they turned us toward the coast and we flew past New York. By this time, we were perhaps around 10000 feet up and out my window was a glorious view of the skyline. I admit that after so many years flying you forget to appreciate the views we sometimes get, but not that morning. I even commented to my first officer how beautiful the view was and how the twin towers really stood out in the lights of the city. Absolutely stunning that morning. I will never forget that sight. I was awakened by a phone call in my hotel in Paris, nearly the only time my wife has called me when she knows I will probably be sleeping. She told me to get up and turn on the television. It was just in time to see the first tower fall. I couldn't really comprehend it at the time, just sat there stunned.
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