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9/11 coincident

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my only thread ever stickied was they hit the Pentagon too thread

man AT was wreck as everywhere else was all trying to get a hold of our NYC friends.
 
the past couple of days, I can't help but get the feeling that somethings gonna happen tomorrow. And I'll be the first one in the office to discover it. Then, my slacking/internet at work obsession will be discovered
 
Originally posted by: EXman
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my only thread ever stickied was they hit the Pentagon too thread

man AT was wreck as everywhere else was all trying to get a hold of our NYC friends.
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RIP HawkeyeNJ 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: EXman
🙁

my only thread ever stickied was they hit the Pentagon too thread

man AT was wreck as everywhere else was all trying to get a hold of our NYC friends.
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RIP HawkeyeNJ 🙁
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R. I. P. HawkeyeNJ 🙁
 
"Then, my slacking/internet at work obsession will be discovered"


lol, I am the master of wasting 8 hours on the companies time.

gogo ATOT
 
http://www.teenink.com/Past/2003/February/Nonfiction/RealisticFiction.html

a dude from these forums does an EXCELENT tribute to hawkeyeNJ.

simeon L...who are you?...nicely written dude...


I spend a lot of time at one of the largest online forums. There, techies (a nice name for geeks) from across the globe converge and discuss things from how to overclock their computers to whether or not to take multivitamin supplements. With millions of members and even more "spectators," it is a huge online community. One of the pillars of that community was HawkeyeNJ. Every week he would scan the Sunday circulars and write up which buys were hot deals.

Whenever you needed help, he was more than willing to lend a hand. In a world where even the closest of acquaintances are strangers, the enthusiasm with which HawkeyeNJ lent his aid was moving. After September 11, people kept posting on the forums, finding out if everyone was okay. HawkeyeNJ never posted again.

It's hard to describe what it felt like not to hear from him again. Here was a guy who we only knew by a screen name, yet it felt like we had lost a brother. None of us knew him in person, and in a way that made it harder. Somewhere out there a life had been lost and all we had to cling to was a nickname, a false identity, a fleeting memory. Not knowing him also gives me some hope that he didn't die. That he, like a lot of people you meet in an online community, merely left. That somewhere out there, HawkeyeNJ is kicking back on some beach and watching the sun sink down behind the orange waves. Yes, that is what I'll believe.
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