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Rhett1
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Joined: 10/16/2005
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 10:30:13 AM | I was on my way to work and I usually listen to morning radio shows but for some reason, was listening to a C.D. I pulled up to a stop light and looked over at this woman who had this horrified look on her face. She was staring down (I figured later she was staring at her radio) and I thought, "This woman is probably a little nuts." I got into work shortly after the first plane had hit and the building was empty. I went into one of the offices that had a T.V. with cable and everyone was watching. One of my co-workers said, "We're going to war". And that's when I watched the T.V. and saw the second plane hit. Of course, the news announcer said the second plane coming in was an "observation plane" before it hit...at that point though, after the second impact, I knew we were in for it.
That single day changed my reality of how the United States was invunnerable. I realized at that moment we weren't any longer. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:20:11 AM | Retract the claws cupcake. It is un-becoming. NOWHERE did I say, I had evidence of a plane hitting the Pentagram. I would LOVE to have this (I feel) relatively simple matter put to rest. For some unknown reason the U.S. government does not wish to release known video from a gas station and I believe a Sheraton hotel that caught (something) hitting the pentagon. They also have at least TWO birds eye views of (something) hitting the pentagon from their own cameras yet are not willing to release these either? Why is my question. Why not put this to rest? IF a plane hit the pentagon, WHY is the public not being shown actual footage of this happening? Weird to say the least. Do you just want to argue for some reason? Have you singled me out for a particular reason? I was not even directing a comment towards you. For some reason you chose to direct comments at me? Comments I might add that were silly nonsense to begin with.
I thank you. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:30:32 AM | | I experienced it VERY similar to message 5. Instead of the tv on at work though I kept hearing updates and news breaking stories on the radio then. It seemed a very dark day in terms of the mood for that time then. Soon after when they came up with having a flag on your car in memory I got some and put them in the window of my car in support of being united despite the attempt to have the country divided or lessened any by what was done. I feel that only made us stand by each other for the most part. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:39:42 AM | Well, so much for the "let's leave conspiracies and politics out of this thread" concept. 
Can't we just have ONE thread where we can simply share what we all experienced on that day ?
In reading some of the posts here , the ones that concentrated on that personal view of the impact of that day on us and how we all felt, I see there's some good writing here. That's the internet at it's best for me. It gives us all a chance to see, for a moment, both our differences - and how very much we all have in common.
Show me how you see the world, and I'll show you who you are.
Let's not distract ourselves from that endeavor , shall we ? | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:40:49 AM |
Have you singled me out for a particular reason? I was not even directing a comment towards you. For some reason you chose to direct comments at me?
Morningsmile didn't direct a comment towards you, yet you still chose to belittle her post.
While I agree with many of your viewpoints, the way in which you express them is often quite confrontational, so you shouldn't be surprised when people reply to you in negative ways. | |
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Rhett1
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Joined: 10/16/2005
Msg: 57 | |
| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:44:33 AM | Spaceman: You seemed to be picking on someone who made a harmless comment in her post. You brought conspiracy theory into a thread where we were asked to avoid them and simply give some thought to that awful day. If you want to talk about conspiracy theories about the Pentagon or 9/11, I don't think you'll be stopped for starting a new thread, or at least bringing up an older one. You implied that she had knowledge that others don't...you were being condescendingly sarcastic.
I did not disagree or even broach the subject of whether or not your theories are TRUE, as that isn't what the thread is about. You jumped on someone for a few words that had no evil intention from what I could see, and now you're upset that I'm "picking on you"?
We were asked not to get into conspiracy theories...you did. Simmer down...dear. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 12:00:11 PM | This has been a really good thread. And I have no doubt it's actually been theraputic for some.
So can't the debates and arguments just be put aside just for once? Everyone has their own opinions, but there's a time and a place for everything right?
Some people have mentioned how everyone came together during 9/11. Coming together can be done more often. It can be done in one thread for once can't it?
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 12:00:19 PM | Sorry MG. Won't happen again. One last comment though. If asking someone who says (when the plane hit the pentagon) where she saw this footage is picking on said person than I will eat my hat. Also. If asking to see footage of an airplane hitting a building that does exist yet remains behind closed doors is your interpretation of conspiracy theory eldubu then I must wonder how solid your grasp is on reality.
If you wish to debate me further, feel free to message me. I have dis-respected this mans thread enough I think. My sincerest apologies.
Derek.
EDIT: If nothing else maybe this lady will now look for some facts to back up what has been shoved down the publics throat as fact without evidence of same. I call it heresay without proof. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 12:22:47 PM | | I was just getting home from haveing my sons picture made. I heard something happen and wasn't sure what was going on till I got home and tuned on the tv. I bet most will agree here, my heart fell to the floor and all I could say was oh my god. As for the conspiracy theory, I have seen the video of the "plane" hitting pentagon, I am sorry but it does not look like a plane to me. It was the saddest day in history as far as I am concerned. I will not ever disgrace that day or what happened. And one more thing, I had to tell my four year old why I was crying, I hope I never have to again. It is hard enough for us adults to understand but imagine being a child. My heart goes out to EVERYONE that was affected by this. God bless the USA>>> | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 12:49:43 PM | My Story is actually a co-worker's story more than my own,...but I think it needs to be told,...a story that could be filed under the headding of
"no good deed goes unpunished",...
Living in Halifax, most of us somehow were affected by the events that day,...and the ones to follow,....for one good reason, when the USA was declaired a no fly zone and ordered every plane to land at the nearest airport,...
Being fairly close,...as the crow flies to Boston and New York many comercial flights were re-directed to land at our international airport,...leaving many people stranded,...many of whom that couldn't afford to stay in the few hotel rooms that were vaccant,...the call came out for us who had spare rooms to take these stranded people into our homes,...something we have done in the past as recently as when the Swiss air plane crashed and the families of the victims desended upon us while the recovery of the bodies was in progress,...some have never left in fact,..but I digress,...
At the time I was working at the police department and one of our officer's who was with the K-9 unit happened to have been on sick leave,.... his sick leave was for emotional reason's due to some personal crisis,...
So when he saw what was unfolding on that day he packed a bag and his furry partner and headed for New York to offer himself and his partner in the search for survivors,...during the many days he spent there,..he personally was responsible in finding many including one that was still alive,....
Upon returning to Halifax however, he was seriously raked over the coals and reprimanded for actively involving himself while on official sick leave,...
I can sort of see their point (although he had been ordered to be on sick leave, I believe,...he hadn't asked for it),...
but at the time the whole city was flabergasted,....we felt that this being a unique situation couldn't be measured in normal ways,....and hero's shouldn't be punished for being hero's,...I tend to agree,....so retroactively,....  you know who you are,.... | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:09:51 PM | i ws in einsteins bagel cafe eating an asiago on sundried tomato with a cup of coffee and cream and sugar and watching the office crowd and i thought then ,if people were doing a proper job then it would have not ruined my day .........my first thoughts were incompotence ,stupidity ,and ignorance ,all the money spent on security and they cannot stop a man with a boxcutter,show where your tax dollars are being spent right ,because one of the guys on 9/11 has an arrest warrant out on him in broward county,the security is a joke and it employs jokers | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:13:03 PM | | Back in the late 1970's Time Life had a commercial on television where they were selling a series of books on Viet Nam. The commercial ran " Experience what those who were there did ". After a time they pulled that commercial because not just Veterans from Viet Nam but Veterans from other wars wrote and called telling them that anyone with any common sense would know you can not " experience " something unless you were there in person. It is the same with September 11th. There is a vast difference from being there and watching it on television. To experience something means to have been there. What you have expereinced if you were not there is the results of the event, but not the event itself. Sort of like those books. Unless you were on the ground, in the air or at sea being fired upon no book can give you the experience of being there. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:44:03 PM | | side point of interest. The Canadians were handed one of the worse beached to land on June 6, 1941. They were one of the first Nations to go to Korea to fight and they gave a good but little noted showing in Viet Nam. Canada has always been there when needed. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 2:52:39 PM | | It is a fact that a plane went in out in the field in Penn, but none of it was recovered. Back in the early 1980's a plane crashed hard in the Everglades. The location was found but not one body part nor any thing of the plane was found. In both cases there indeed was plane crashes. Loaded with fuel, made of thin metal and plastic and making a hard hit there would be no surprize at all that none of the plane that hit the Pentagon was ever recovered. But, the people who were on it never made it home, and an entire traffic block and people in the parking lot saw it. Was there a plane? It is over whelmingly conclusive that there was,,, unless a Space ship from Roswell hit it. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 6:00:10 PM | colwalt - the only people that said no parts of the plane were found were some college students that came out with a half-assed video....and after their video was countered with evidence by the justice department, they changed their story around and then some conspiracy theorists followed in their wake and said the same thing.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread79655/pg1
There you go. Now let the thread get back to what it was originally intended for. Sheesh. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 7:05:19 PM | I never meant to stir up a controversy, but to settle all this...
1.) I was Watching GMA-saw 2nd plane hit tower.
2.) Other reports were coming in in regards to the other 2 planes.
3.) I heard the announcement concerning the situation with the pentagon. I can't recall ever seeing any video of a plane actually hitting the building. However, I believe there were reports that came out of the inspections that indicated jet fuel was present.
Sounds like a plane crash to me!
4.) I was like every other American on that day-watching and listening to what was unfolding and simply wondering, "Why?"
Futhermore, I have kids fighting this war-
I HAVE A DAMN GOOD GRASP ON REALITY!
To our Canadian friends and others who felt our sorrows that day,
MANY THANKS! | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 8:17:27 PM | To keep the conspiracy theories out of this................
I was actually at my cabin in Southwest Utah. Beautiful place. I went up the day before. The road in overlooks Zion National Park. Cedar Breaks National Monument and Bryce Canyon National Park are just a few miles in either direction. Navajo Lake is just around the bend. No phone, no TV, and I don't really turn on the radio. Basically no contact with the real world. The crowds thin out, the weather gets a little cooler, and the leaves start to turn color. It' a wonderful time of year to go up there. Gives me time to get myself out of the rat race and reflect on whats really important in life. For almost 2 days, I knew nothing. On the morning of the 13th, I needed to stop in Duck Creek to get some supplies and gas when I saw the headlines in a newspaper rack. Was not sure what to think, like I was in the "Twilight Zone." I actually asked the girl in the store and she thought I was nuts! Thats when it all sank in for me.
I ended up coming off the mountain a day early because of it all. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/9/2007 11:51:15 PM | I got home from work at 8:30am the morning of September 11, I just got out of the shower and having a cup of tea when the news broke into the tv show I was watching and from that moment on I couldn't stop watching, I had to work that night and all the nurses I worked with were absolutely numb.
I work at a community hospital in Toronto, we had a list of patients that were to be discharged home in the event the downtown toronto hospitals had to transfer patients to us so their trauma center could take any survivors from New York.
Needless to say , sadly, that never happened.
It's important for everyone , American, Canadian , whatever, to remember that day and talk about it so it never happens again. | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/10/2007 7:27:56 AM | On September 11, 2001, I worked for a quasi-government organization in Northeast Ohio. We were the only officially occupied location in a 5 mile radius when Flight 93 was in CLE's air traffic control area. We also happened to be the site of one the MANY successes resulting from the events of that morning. One of our team leads had gone to DC for a meeting a few days before 9/11. After the destruction of the towers and the subsequent nationwide air traffic stoppage, he was stranded in DC. There were no flights, every train and bus seat was booked, and there were no rental cars to be found anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard.
Jack had been gone from his family for many days, through one of the most spectacular terrorist attacks in history, and he was really wanting badly to be home with his family. We, being a large group of problem solvers, were racking our brains until one of the guys had a stroke of genius... "I bet he could rent a moving truck!" Jack dropped off our conference call and called back 10 minutes later, having rented a 24 foot Uhaul truck on his company Amex. 14 hours later, he was home with his family, and an organizational legend was born.
9/11 was a colossal failure... For the terrorists who attempted to tear the heart out of our country. The most accepted number of people inside 1WTC and 2WTC on 9/11/01 is 25,000 people. 2603 souls were lost directly as a result of the actual WTC attacks and 24 more people are still listed as missing. Only roughly 10% of the people at WTC perished. 8 in 10 walked away and went home.
Personally, 5 people I know were at WTC during the attack, including my ex-wife's brother. None perished.
2 men I grew up with who are firefighters were in NYC within 14 hours of the attack, doing volunteer work. One now suffers from Post WTC Lung Disease, and still doesn't regret having gone.
A lady I know who trains search and rescue dogs had her team at the site 11 hours after the attack. It is a 13 hour drive from where she lives to the WTC site under ideal circumstances.
I remember standing at the corner of East 9th Street and Superior Avenue a few days after the attack watching a convoy of fire, construction, law enforcement and city vehicles leaving for New York, the streets lined with people waving flags and cheering for them.
I remember people standing in line for hours to donate blood... Firemen's boots filled to the brim with money from people having dumped change or cash into them at street corners.
Yes, I remember seeing the towers collapse in real time... But those images are fading, while the ones in my mind above are not.
Of course, the anger still burns, but the pride burns stronger.
Tomorrow, please drive with your headlights on any time you are in your vehicle and fly your flag! (No matter what country you are in!) | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/10/2007 7:38:59 AM | I was in a meeting when I heard. It wasn't until they hooked up a video in the conference room that we could grasp exactly what happened. The towers on fire, then falling. It was so surreal... Most of us just sat there and watched it play over and over again for hours. I used to be able to see the World Trade Towers from near my home. When I got home and looked they were gone and I could still see the smoke, but they were gone. One of those moments I'll never forget.
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/10/2007 9:14:34 AM |
I remember standing at the corner of East 9th Street and Superior Avenue a few days after the attack watching a convoy of fire, construction, law enforcement and city vehicles leaving for New York, the streets lined with people waving flags and cheering for them.
I remember people standing in line for hours to donate blood... Firemen's boots filled to the brim with money from people having dumped change or cash into them at street corners.
Yes, I remember seeing the towers collapse in real time... But those images are fading, while the ones in my mind above are not.
Of course, the anger still burns, but the pride burns stronger.
GREAT post, CG ! 
Some things are just universal..... | |
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| 9/11 and how you experienced it ( personal stories)
Posted: 9/10/2007 10:58:57 AM | I was on my way to a meeting at a large office building, remote from my usual worksite. Running late, half-listening to the radio, when the announcer said they had an "unconfirmed report" that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I thought it was probably a Cessna or some other small plane, and that a pilot had made a horrendous error in judgement (it happens; a few years earlier while I was a few blocks away, a plane accidentally landed in the Hudson near the Trade Center.) When I got into the building and signed in through security, they were listening to the radio, and looking shocked - I asked what happened, and they said a second plane had hit. That was when I started to realize it wasn't an accident.
I got into my meeting and logged on to some news source, and it was just being reported - I emailed my parents, who live on Long Island but travel to the city a lot, and my sister, who lives a few blocks from the World Trade Center, asking them to make contact and let me know they were okay. My step-father had actually been on his way into the city and the bus he was on had to turn around and come back; my sister and her husband were on a plane on their way home from Japan. It was hours before we knew where they were; they'd been grounded in Calgary and weren't able to make contact by internet or phone for a while (not sure why, I think lines were tied up.) They didn't find out why they were grounded until they reached the hotel they stayed in.
The meeting continued as scheduled, but I was really shaken up - we lived in that neighborhood when I was in high school. It a strange area at night - deserted, but you could go hang out on the plaza and climb the sculptures and walk around the waterfront and be out in an empty city at night. I liked it. I have no idea what it's like now - I haven't been back and don't really want to.
I watched some of the footage on my way out of the meeting on the huge screen they had set up in another conference room - people were just sitting glued ot the screen, speechless. I watched for about 5 minutes, but the commentary was so... I can't really describe my reation. It just seemed so vapid - I don't think anything anyone could have said right then could have truly voiced the fear, sadness, anger, sense of loss - the whole spectrum of emotions at that moment, and what the announcers did say seemed like a waste of breath - like they were talking because they had to, not because they had anything they could actually SAY about what was happening. I didn't want to keep watching, or listening. I wanted to talk to my mother and my sister, and to go sit in a peaceful place.
Two of my mother's paintings were hanging at the NY tourist bureau when the buildings went down. My sister and her husband came home to find that everything in their entire apartment was covered in a fine layer of black dust. I went to a candle-light vigil where a woman who'd lost her sister on one of the planes spoke, and said her tears of grief were not a cry for war. I watched the sunset and the clouds rise and said a prayer for peace for everyone - the dead and those left behind, the victims and those who carried this out, for those who I knew would soon be sending loved ones to the middle east - and for those there and about to go. I wish there were any answer to the question of "why," but I don't think there is. | |
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