I was at work ... All the offices and rooms had tvs in them that streamed schedules and such for the day ... Suddenly they changed to live news of the tragic event and as many, I stood in awe as the second building collapsed. Tears fell down my face as I watched ... No one got anything done that day; we all just watched the tvs.
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... which of course I did not do. The leader of the conference call was about 2 blocks from the WTC. As events unfolded close by, he paused a few times... but continued hosting the call! When the other participants found out what was happening in NYC, we pleaded with the host to GET OUT OF THERE! Finally he ended the call, and escaped unharmed. I then watched on TV as the 2nd tower fell. My first thought was, "There must be tens of thousands of people who work at the WTC!" Fortunately, many of them escaped. But far too many did not.
Later I drove across town to a client meeting which I expected would not happen, but it was still "on" so I met a colleague at the client site. The client didn't show up... later we found out he was frantically trying to determine whether a loved one in NYC was OK. Turned out he was.
There didn't seem to be anything else to do but to go home. My colleague had no car, so I drove him home. It was such an eerie feeling that afternoon... a beautiful, sunny day; very little traffic; and everything seemed suspended in time.
Things were crazy. I was coming home from work shortly before 9am. I liked talk radio and the AM waves were straight from NYC in my area. The radio broadcast was pure chaos. The regular show wasn't on and instead they were fielding calls from people asking about loved ones, where they were in the WTC, etc. It was nearly a ten minute drive home and I still had very little idea what was going on. I got home and turned on the TV and was just shocked. I then called everyone I was close to (family, my best friend down the street) and told them to turn on the TV. The elementary schools in my area were still open but about half the parents picked their kids up to ensure their safety. We really had no clue what was going on. The military bases in the area were all shut down, people were either stuck in or out and nobody was crossing the perimeter of the bases. EVERYTHING changed that day. I ended up driving to my friend's house so she could go get her daughter and then I spent the rest of the school day with her glued to the cable news channels. I drove to the Long Island Sound in hopes of getting a glimpse of the smoke, but we were too far away. I just felt like I needed to do *something* because it was so real, so close, yet we were still far enough away that it just felt surreal. I think the panic and shock was overwhelming and I was unable to really grasp what was going on.
It took me 2 years to wrap my head around what happened, and it was then that I fell apart on the 2nd anniversary. I honestly didn't know I hadn't fully felt the effects until that day. There was a montage played on the MyTalk 107.1 radio station (The Ian Punnett morning show) of some voice mails recorded from victims before the collapse, news coverage, Presidential press statements, etc., set to some very patriotic music. I just HAD to call in and when I did and was able to put to words what I was feeling I choked up and was unable to finish. My emotions were raw and it honestly felt like I *FINALLLY* understood (to my best ability) what happened to us all (and the victims) that day. Ian Punnett was choked up and had trouble speaking, and soon after went to another caller to compose himself.
I've been following a reddit thread about this, and it's shocking to read how many were too young at the time to really remember it, only really learning about it when they got to high school. For me it feels like a very short time ago, but the reality is it's been a long time and we've got a whole new generation of adults coming into society not knowing a life before 9/11
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I had just finished teaching one of my afternoon classes, I was at Ghent University. Ghent Belgium is 6 hours ahead of NYC so it was early afternoon. A colleague of mine stopped by and told me that there was an accident in NYC. I met up with some other American faculty members and we went to someone's apartment and watched CNN the rest of the day. The one thing that I really remember about that day actually happened on Sept. 12th. I actually almost got into a physical confrontation with a student when he said that the US deserved to get attached and went on to explain to myself and the entire class some his theories about basically "reaping what we sow.". Typical anti-American BS that you get in some parts of Europe, but wow, how do you respond to that? If I remember correctly I don't think he did very well in my class after making these comments. Here is the kicker..... It was an American History class.
Be Safe,
Buck
I was driving from one building to another at work and had just arrived at where my next meeting was. I was listening to the KQRS morning show and they were just beginning to report what was going on in NYC... but it was still sketchy and it sounded like a single small plane had hit the world trade center by accident. At that point I had to shut the car off and go into the building for my meeting.
Later, I noticed people gathering around a TV in the office watching the news and it was obvious then that this was no accident. It was a surreal feeling, nobody was sure if we should get back to work, watch the news unfold or what.... I vividly remember trying to calculate how many people would be in those buildings on a morning work-day......
Only the first tower had been hit and it seemed like a terrible accident. Then the second plane hit the other tower and I knew we were at war.
conspiracy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snWlgyt9BYs
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I have always thought you were humorous, now I think you are simply stupid and pathetic
I have always thought you were worthless, now I think your just blind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN2AdOjI4FI
and mindless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
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Thank you Wad for posting this - there are still a lot of people that haven't
studied this enough to realize just what happened that day - I was at work
listeniing to KQ morning also, we got a TV working in the shop I worked at
so we could watch as the networks replayed the towers collapsing over and over.
I will never forget standing outside having a cigarette alone with tears running
down my face wondering how to compose myself enough to go back into work,
but I did.
I watched it also live...the one thing to me that stood out the
most was the damage to the Pentagon...it should have been
a lot worse than what we saw. The whole side of the building
should have been gone. That's all I'm saying.
A friend of mine's wife was aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
... if American Airlines Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon... what happened to it? And where are the 64 people who were on board that flight? And how did debris from that flight end up on the Pentagon grounds, near the large hole in the building
We can find videos all day long one way or another... here is just a few...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypc4ieJO0pg
... which covers the 136 eyewitnesses to the fact of an American Airlines jet hitting the Pentagon.
Can we move on now, past baseless conspiracy theories, to the remembrance of those who died in these attacks, and their loved ones?
They are crazy.
FWIW The FBI came and confiscated the surveillance video of the gas station across the street minutes after the attack.
I was talking to a guy who lived in the area at the time...we were talking about things like a hazmat spill in late 95 that shut down the entire interstate and I was stuck in the traffic, etc....and he offered up that he was on the interstate when the pentagon was hit. He was in sight of it. While he wasn't looking in the direction of the impact when it happened, he should have seen something. He did say there was a "phshew" (quick rocket) sound instead of a longer louder plane sound. He said "you know when there's a plane right overhead. It's so loud you can't miss it. How many times do you hear them before you see them? Especially when they're flying that low. Well, I heard no plane. I saw no plane. And I was driving in a place I should have heard and seen it." There are countless other eyewitness that say the same thing. The video around the WTC leaves more questions than it answers. For example: I was watching LIVE when the 2nd tower was hit but I didn't see a plane. Only on the replay. Why?
I don't think Wad is so stupid. I think there are unanswered questions that make no sense. I think it's stupid to blindly follow what we're told. It's stupid not to ask questions.
I'm not saying that it was an inside job. I'm not saying it wasn't. I just saying that those who are questioning have good reason to. A lot of the details just don't make any sense. There is a good documentary on Netflix that points out these inconsistencies and while I've only watched a little bit, it does leave you scratching your head a little.
Bringing this to a bigger level, beyond 9/11 attack controversy, our news is filtered and we only know what our government and news people want us to know. I don't know how far reaching it is, but I have a friend who has lived in Tel Aviv for most of the last 10 years (currently home but about to go back) and he has shared many examples on how our news is not accurate and where to go for the truth. And then, of course, it's the Isreal version of the truth.
It's always good to be skeptical of what you're being told by those in power.
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ttp://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/05/31_catlinb_airguardmuseum/
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=2823
A video tells the story of flight Gopher 06, a Twin Cities-based C-130 leaving Washington, D.C. the morning of 9/11. An emotional looking Maj. Robert Schumacher describes how air traffic controllers directed the crew to follow American Airlines flight 77, shortly before it crashed into the Pentagon. The Air Guard crew wasn't aware of the attacks in New York.
My daughter was barely nine months old...living in Californina. My (then) husband woke me up and told me the twin towers just fell. I thought it was a prank or a joke...when the reality hit...I went numb. We both did. It was to horrible to grasp. We are so lucky that's all we have gone through. There are many that live in constant fear...
I live in gratitude every day.