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9/11 Remembrance

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Originally posted by: Regs
How can you compare Sept 11 with a heat wave? People jumping out of burning buildings while mothers make their last cell phone call on crashing air planes. Europe has my sympathy, but don't ever put Sept. 11th and excessive heat in the same sentence.
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How could anyone possibly associate burning buildings with excessive heat?
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Originally posted by: Amused
Why don't we pull up the thread of 9/11 to remember the shock, confusion and disbelief of that day???
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I would really appreciate if someone could do this. Just lock them and sticky them. Fark.com has posted thiers but I was glued here at the time. It was really scary with most of the news stations down, this was the only place I felt I could get reliable info.
 
I had just gone to bed for the morning, I was working the late shift at Hewlett Packard in the Network Admin Department. My friend from Toledo was scheduled to fly down that evening. We had planned a weekend camping and rapelling trip in the North GA mountains. Kirk called me from Toledo, he was packing to get on the plane. He told me to go watch the news.

I stumbled, half asleep, into the living room (18 hour shifts are not fun), and turned on the tv just in time to see plane # 2 fly into the 2nd tower. I woke up immediately in shock and disbelief. I called my boss at HP and told her that I was cancelling my vacation because I knew the airports would be shut down and all flights grounded. Kirk cancelled his vacation as well. I could not go back to sleep, so I stayed on the couch and watched all day long.

When my wife arrived home, we just sat on the couch and held each other until I had to go to work that night. She stayed up most of the night and called me every-so-often to make sure I was still around.

Now I have a son, and the thought of Islamic Terrorists running around in this world scares me. I am for backing GWB 100% in this war on terrorism.
 
Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: Amused
Why don't we pull up the thread of 9/11 to remember the shock, confusion and disbelief of that day???
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I would really appreciate if someone could do this. Just lock them and sticky them. Fark.com has posted thiers but I was glued here at the time. It was really scary with most of the news stations down, this was the only place I felt I could get reliable info.
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We had a moment of silence today at 9... To those who know/knew all those injured people and those who perished in the 9/11 attacks, my sympathy goes for you.

God Bless America...
 
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: azazyel
Originally posted by: Amused
Why don't we pull up the thread of 9/11 to remember the shock, confusion and disbelief of that day???
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I would really appreciate if someone could do this. Just lock them and sticky them. Fark.com has posted thiers but I was glued here at the time. It was really scary with most of the news stations down, this was the only place I felt I could get reliable info.
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Thanks I appreciate it!
 
Man, even after all the constant coverage, footage, media spin, policy changes etc., and visiting Ground Zero and seeing it with my own eyes, two years later, I *STILL* have trouble believing it happened--we are constantly reminded how humanity can soar to reach new heights and sink to new depths at the same time...
 
Driving back to work from lunch and had the top down, nice crisp day and I passed by a building that had its flag at half-mast. I think it was the first one I noticed today that was flown like that. Seems some are forgetting already.

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I remember exactly where I was.
I was on an overpass crossing over I-5 and about to turn to enter the freeway on my way to work.
I pulled over and just sat and listened to the news on the radio for about 10 minutes.
I was in shock and didn't feel like I could drive.
I did go to work.
But nobody was working.
For pretty much the whole day, people were sitting in the cafeteria just watching the news.
No, I will never forget that day and the innocent lives that were lost.
 
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Was at work, the boss had brought a TV in and after the second one hit, a bunch of us were in there watching it... made it in time to see the first building collapse and we were all quite bewildered...
But we had to carry on working, and the next day when I was looking at an article on CNN.com about it shortly after the working day had begun, and the boss stopped by, asked what I was doing, and mentioned how there was a real productivity problem.
 
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