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furie

07-17-2004, 08:04 PM

I was on the ramp at JFK coming back from Terminal 3 (after working a Saudi Air flight. If only I had know), going to Terminal 1. we saw the smoke and turned on the radio.

When NORAD and the FAA finally shut the air space down, I had to admit all of the TWOV (Transit without Visa) These are people who can't be in the US since the don't have visas and they stay in a private lounge area. but since we didn't know how long it was going to be, we just let them in to the US.

I remember one guy, a korean, who tried to tell me he was sorry for what happened. I told him to just keep it moving. Looking back it was a very nice gesture, I just couldn't appreciate it at the time.

I then spend the next three days at the JTTF command post set up at the PAPD building.

are you ok Reeshy? your threads have been a bit morbid the last few days.

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07-17-2004, 08:08 PM

I didn't hear anything during first period at school (which runs from 8 to 9:30, so I was in English when this started happening). We didn't really hear about anything until 2nd period. Our math teacher was running around, and we had no clue what was going on. She went in and said something about a plane crashing into the WTC. I thought it was maybe a private plane, or something similar to the one that crashed into the Empire State in the '30s. Anyway, we turned on the TV and one of the buildings had already collapsed. My teacher had no idea what to do, and we had a test. So she decided that we have the test WHILE this was going on. After about 10 minutes, however, she realized that was dumb, and told us to stop and just watch what was happening.

My friend's mother was working in the North Tower. She never made it out in time. (I heard later on that someone told my mom that she was on the ground floor when the building came down, and had almost made it out.) The weird thing was that morning I had seen her walking to the bus stop. It was the first time that I had ever seen her going to work before. I didn't think much of it at the time, but afterwards it made me wish that I could've done something to make her not go.

Anyway, the school let us out early, though I didn't really get out til 2, when my dad came to pick me up (you weren't allowed to leave unless someone picked you up). We dropped off a few friends, and I went home with my dad in shock. I saw my friend later on, and he kept saying that he was sure his mom got out, and that she just couldn't get to a phone. I was praying for that to be true, and I didn't know what the hell to do other than stare at the smoke in disbelief.

My mom and sister came home shocked. They work in Jersey City, and saw the planes hit. My mom saw both of them, and watched the towers collapse. I don't know if I was sad that day, but all I could think of was my friend's mom. I never did make it to her funeral service, and I regret never going. He's a good kid, and his mom was one of the nicest people I had ever known.

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reeshy

07-17-2004, 08:08 PM

are you ok Reeshy? your threads have been a bit morbid the last few days.

Yea , thanks Furie...Ive been going through some hard times lately (mentally)...I have a lot of death anniverseries this time of year and some other stuff going on...sorry if it came through on the posts...I apologize,,, My good friend NJLumberdude knows about it and has been helping me out!

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07-17-2004, 08:17 PM

Actually, I was on the old O&A message board when I read Tequila's post asking if anyone heard about a plane hitting one of the towers. Things very quickly went to hell afterwards.

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FUNKMAN

07-17-2004, 08:17 PM

I had worked 3rd shift and woke to the radio alarm around 11:30am, wcbs. The first thing i heard was "suicide planes take down the WTC's" or something similar. Being i was half asleep it seemed like a dream. I went into work at our NJ location and everyone was scrambling to put desktops, servers, and the network together to accomodate a hundred or so Wall Street Journal editors who normally worked out of 200 Liberty St which is a block from the fallen WTC's. The company was very proud they got the paper out for 9/12. Everyone got a 'blanket' (that goes on the press) with the layout of the frontpage. I had it framed and it hangs in the den.

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fluffernutter

07-17-2004, 08:34 PM

I had done mynormal wake up at 8:30 or so and strolled down to my computer to check my mail and whatever else I checked. My news page CANOE (http://www.canoe.ca) had a Main Story of a plane hitting the First Tower. I first laughed and thought, what an idiot, can't you figure out how to go around that thing in your small little plane. Now I am quite ignorant as to how big those Towers are and I went and turned on CNN and saw the second plane hit. It just seems foggy now and I really STILL wasn't sure what was going on so I left for work. I travel the Greater Philadelphia/Central Jersey area for work so I went on my normal route and turned on Stern. I just remember being really foggy and cludy in the head as I headed North from the PA Turnpike on US 1 and missed my Exit 3 times. I finally got to my first Wal-Mart store and they had CNN on the in store TV network which I work on and do compliance checks on as well. Naturally, I called my Help Desk in San Francisco and told them the normal programming wasn't on and in turn, turned them onto what exactly was going on. I just remember listening to Stern that day until like 12 and just how great of a show it was and just how fucked up everything was that was going on. I kept thinking if Chicago and LA get hit, things could be really REALLY fucked. I was really fearful for Philly as well as being my home city so to speak, it would really make things personal. I heade as far North as Princeton and then began to head towards Howell, NJ via I-195 and after my visit there, i said screw it and headed or home. This was about 2:00 or so and I the roads were just so empty the whole way home. It was just so surreal and I was so glad to get home into the warm embrace of my family who thought I was somehow in danger cause I was in Jersey.

I was truly scared that day and hope I never have to live through anything like that again.

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07-17-2004, 08:37 PM

I was sleeping and the phone rang, i picked it up and my brother was screaming frantically to turn on the news. When i went to turn the TV on all i got was static til i hit FOX i think it was and saw the first Tower smoking and then another plane fly right into the second one. I was sitting on the edge of the bed thinking that i was really still dreaming, or just seeing something way out of context.

My brother told me he loved me and to sit tight and i hung up and called my Mom, who worked at a blood clinic near Fort Lee. She said that my aunt was coming to pick me up, that the clinic was in a lockdown state and she wouldnt be able to leave for what they told her was 2 or 3 days.

It was a really bad time for everyone, and it sorta creeped me out how nonchalante my Aunt was acting about the whole situation, maybe that was just her way of dealing with it, i dont know.

 
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07-17-2004, 09:24 PM

I was still in college at the time, and Tuesday was the only weekday I could sleep in, so I didn't wake up until after both planes had already hit.

I went down the hall to the showers, and thought it was weird that everyone was real quiet, and you could hear TV's in all the rooms on the various news channels, and it was all just a chatter of things like, "fire," "crash," "burning building," etc.. I remember specifically wondering if there had been another big earthquake out in California again. I went ahead and took my shower, and went back to my room and turned on the TV, which was already on CNN since I fall asleep with that on.

All I could see was a tight closeup of one of the towers, and the caption just said something like, "WTC attacked." I remember not being able to figure out what the hell "WTC" was for a good 20 seconds or so, and it seems now that the instant the first Tower fell is when it hit me what the hell was collapsing in front of me. My roommate woke up right then and asked what was going on, and I just said, "dude, I think someone blew up the World Trade Center."

The weirdest part is remembering saying that with a smile...but I sure didn't feel happy. It was the combination of realizing what building was on the TV, and what was happening, and having to tell my roommate what was happening, seemingly all at the same minute. It was too much, and that was just the fucked up way my mind responded. It was all overload.

I actually went to my first class in a daze, but the teacher cancelled it once we got there, and nothing went on for the rest of the day. Getting back to my room, only like 20 minutes had passed, and I started seeing that the other Tower fell, and the Pentagon has been attacked. At that time, they were saying the State Department had been hit by a car bomb, and there were more planes in the air, and I just freaked. My parents both work for the CIA, so I'm picturing Langley getting hit...I've got friends who work on the Hill and all around DC and the Pentagon, and I can't call anyone because the phones in most of Northern VA are just totally gridlocked.

At the time, the school I was at was this tiny private school in the southeast tip of VA in the middle of nowhere, and I was so relieved and oddly angry to be away from all the danger at the time. After finally getting through to my parents like two hours later, I went outside the dorm to have a smoke. It struck me how absolutely perfect the day was, weather-wise. I don't know where it was elsewhere, but around me it was like 70 degrees, no humidity, nice breeze...and the sky was a brilliant, cloudless, crystal-clear blue.

I don't think I've ever seen a sky that blue and clear before or since.

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reeshy

07-17-2004, 09:40 PM

don't think I've ever seen a sky that blue and clear before or since.

That was the way it was in NY...one of the most perfect days I had ever seen...until you saw saw the dust-filled sky over South Manhattan....When I got ther everything was a grey fog...dust everywhere...everyone was covered in grey-colored shroud....

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07-18-2004, 01:55 PM

it was like 70 degrees, no humidity, nice breeze...and the sky was a brilliant, cloudless, crystal-clear blue.

yes, exactly! I remember that morning before I took a shower I looked out the window and though "what a beautiful day" (this was before the planes hit/around the time they hit)

I remember going out later that day and just thinking how I should just enjoy the weather... I lived right accross from the Southern State parkway and you could hear absolutley no noise at all except birds chirping (no cars on the highway). It was an amazing day outside but once you turned on the TV it was a different story.

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07-18-2004, 03:36 PM

I was on 5th Avenue and 36th Street when I saw the fireball from the second plane hit. I'll never forget that day as long as I live.

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07-19-2004, 07:27 AM

I was on the bus waiting to head into the Lincoln Tunnel when the traffic stopped and the rumors started rumbling through. A plane hit the tower. A small plane, a large plane... no one knew. Getting off the bus I could see the first tower on fire. Walking along the Hudson waterline I heard the second plane hit and saw that fireball. I then watched both towers collapse. I knew too many people in those towers, one a great friend.

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07-19-2004, 07:43 AM

I was at work, one of my co-workers got an email about a plane hitting the WTC. We checked out Washington Post online, which had a picture. At that time, no one I talked to or read said anything about terrorists. Shortly after the Washington Post site went down (basically the whole internet here). Once the second plane hit, we were no longer working but listenting to the radio (we don't have a TV in our office, at least on our floor).

We heard everything else basically through Howard Stern, reporting the Pentagon being hit, the towers collapsing, and then more and more outlandish stuff--car bomb at the state department, random apocalyptic fires on the mall, it was a very freaky time to be in DC. We could see the smoke from the Pentagon over the ridge from my office, which is a good 7 or 8 miles away.

24 hours later I was at FEMA HQ making maps of the WTC site, the crash site in PA, and many maps of the DC area.

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07-19-2004, 07:47 AM

I was eating some cereal and watching Good Day NY. They had the first one on fire and were talking about a small plane hitting it. No one really knew what was going on and no one really seemed to be making a big deal about it.

I stood up and was walking towards the TV to go turn it off when all of a sudden another plane flies in from the side of the screen and smashed into the towers. I was in total shock and just stared at the screen.

After I figured out what was going on I ran into my roommates room and turned on their tv not really saying much except WE ARE UNDER ATTACK or something. They were still sleeping and didn't know what was going on when I first ran in, but after I got the news on they woke right up and we sat in front of the TV for the rest of the morning.

Later on that day we went to a top of the tallest building we could find and could see the black smoke in the distance. What a day..

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Tall_James

07-19-2004, 07:50 AM

We were doing construction on our Upper West Side apartment and I had a crew of non-English speaking laborers downstairs just starting their day. I was getting dressed for work and I put the TV on to catch some news before heading out. I saw the first tower in flames and before I could process what I was seeing in the live footage I saw the second tower get hit live.

I immediately called my wife who was at work in Rockefeller Center, pregnant with our first child, and told her to get home immediately. I then called the laborers upstairs (the foreman hadn't arrived and wouldn't that day) and showed them the footage on TV. They had no idea what the hell was happening and I tried my best to make them understand and even though I didn't speak their language, they knew something big was happening. I told them to go home to their families. They were hesistant because they didn't want to get fired but I told them that I would make sure that their foreman knew that it was I who told them to leave. They left and the "end of the world" scenarios started running through my mind and my fear for my wife and unborn child who I could now, not get in touch with because cell phone service was out.

I rushed out of the house and went to the supermarket on the corner because it was all I could think of to do at the time. Who knew what was happening just a few miles south and if the worst was going down, we needed to have food stockpiled in the house. So I went through that A&P like one of those crazy housewives on "Supermarket Sweep". I was one of the first in the market and by the time I got to checkout, the lines behind me were out the door. (Sidenote - the guy who played the blind Astronomer in the Jodie Foster film "Contact" was right behind me in line).

I got back to the house and took the elevator up with some young girl in tears. I didn't know her but did my best to console her. I didn't know what to say. My wife showed up about 45 minutes later much to my relief, along with 10 secretaries from her office who could not go home because they couldn't get to their homes in LI, NJ, Brooklyn, Queens etc. because mass transit was shut down. I finally got in touch with my father in the Garment district and told him to get his ass to my house as well.

My home became a literal "refugee camp" for the next 8 hours but it was the right thing to do. A lot of tears, fear and anxiety for the rest of the day until mass transit started again and people could go home. All in all, we had about 20 people in and out of our house that day. Feeding them and comforting was the order of the day.

When everyone left and it was just my wife and I alone in bed, we fell asleep in each others arms not before asking each other what kind of world were we bringing our child into.

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JPMNICK

07-19-2004, 08:12 AM

I can still to this day tell people minute by minute what I did for the entire day. its like it is stuck in my brain.

That summer, I started my first intership ever at JPMorgan on Wall Street (Hence the JPM in front of my name). I live in NJ and go to college in Newark, so I used to drive to school and take the path train from newark to World Trade. That was our first full week of school that year, so I had just set my work schedule. i was workign on Mondays and Wednesday and had class tuesday thursday and friday. No one in my family really knew my schedule yet. My first class was at 10:00, but my mom called me hysterical screaming at like 8:50 to tell me not to go to work.

I calmly told her I was not working on tuesday's. And then I asked her what was wrong. She told me a plane just hit WTC and not to go to school or leave the house. I told her she was over reacting. At this point, I thought it was some stupid little commuter plane who hit the side of the building. I thought the biggest problem would have been people dead on the street. So I turn on the news to see what was going on. As I turned it on, about 1 minute later the second plane hit. Saw that HUGE fireball and realized this was serious.

Still had no idea that this might terrorism (funny how protected I felt and naive I was). Anyway I basically vegitated in front of the TV for an hour. My dad called me, who works in Jersey City, to make sure I was ok. he said that he was coming home because the roads were a mess. He saw the plane hit the building from the side of the road on the pulaski skyway (i think thats where he was).

My sister who was in school in Florida was trying to call for a few hours, but the cell phones were not working. When she got through she was a mess. she thought I was dead.

i called people from work and luckily everyone was OK. I called all my friends and we were all in shock. We had no idea what to do. Knowing this was going to be on the news for the next couple of weeks, I invited everyone to my house for lunch and to play wiffle ball. I just wanted to do something to take our mind off of the situation, especially because details were so sketchy. The rest of the night I watched the news, and for the next couple of days after. i did not get to go back towork until Oct 1st or somethign like that.

Still to this day I have never watched a 9/11 documentary.

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blakjeezis

07-19-2004, 08:54 AM

I was driving to work, listening to The Sports Guys. For some reason I had the volume turned down, but I turned it up just as I was getting out of my truck at the local deli to get coffee for the office. I remember Craig saying something like " . . . hole in the side of the Tower with smoke pouring out." It didn't really register with me what was happening until I got inside the deli and saw it on the TV. At that point it was still only one Tower, and after I got the coffee, and was driving to my office I remember thinking that it must have been a really drunk pilot. In the time it took me to walk from the parking lot to my office, tell everyone what had happened and turn on a radio, the second Tower had been hit. Obviously we knew then that it was no accident.

One of the other offices in my building had a TV so we went in there to watch on CNN. I remember watching the Towers fall and there was like 15 of us crammed into this little back room just in shock.

As far as the qualities of the day are concerned the only word for is eery. My office is in Leonia which, for those unfamiliar with the NY Metro area, is just on the other side of a single hill from the Hudson River. Across the river is Manhattan. I remember standing outside smoking, there wasn't a car on the road. It was so still, calm, tranquil. It was warm and there was that light summer buzz in the air. Just on the other side of the hill was all that death. It was impossible for me to reconcile these two opposite realities. Here I was on perhaps the most glorious day I had ever seen, and just over there, like 2 miles away, was nothing but chaos and destruction.

At the time, I owned a gaming store. I went there that night, but obviously no one was coming out to play. I locked the door, turned the radio on, turned the lights off, sat in the back of the store listening to Ron and Fez, and I cried and cried and cried.

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SamoanWoman

07-20-2004, 03:35 PM

Until the day I die I will remember that day and some of the ones that followed. I was at my cash register where I worked and the guy from receiving came out front and said a plane had hit one of the towers. Since he was young and always fooling around I laughed and told him to stop making stuff up. When his co-worker came out and said it also I stopped and we started talking about the plane that had hit the Empire State Building once. Then someone from the office came out and told us what was really going on. One of the employees on the floor screamed and fainted because her daughter was flying out of Boston that day. I grabbed by cell phone in a futile attempt to reach 7 of my friends that worked in and around the towers. Some woman wanted a discount on an item and I yelled at her to shove the item because my friends might be dead. My husband came home from school and picked me up because the store closed in the early afternoon with the manager getting on the PA and telling people to go home and be with their families.
My husband looked sick and he sat me down in front of the TV with eight oz. of rum which I drank crying. We then went out to eat because I was standing in the middle of my kitchen crying not able to move. At the local Olive Garden, everyone was quiet unless they were sobbing and drinking heavily. No one was eating. We went home and cried until we fell asleep.

As soon as we were allowed to we went to Ground Zero buying sandwiches and coffee for all the volunteers we saw. My husband and I would walk up to them and hug and kiss them and soon we would all be crying. After that , trying to escape the pain we headed uptown and were sitting in a bar when in walk all these rescue workers and firemen from all over the country. We tried our best to comfort them because they were just as heartbroken as we were.

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07-20-2004, 04:56 PM

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sr71blackbird

07-20-2004, 05:22 PM

I was a meter reader at the time, and I was heading up to a route in Great Neck. I had the Stern show on (yuck) and they announced that a plane had hit the tower. I looked up at the sky and it was a beautiful clear day and was thinking, "how could a pilot make such an error on such a clear day?" when I got to the route and started reading meters, I went to a house that I had to go inside and I asked the people if it was true, and they showed me the TV and I couldnt believe the amount of smoke and fire.

Initally I assumed it was a cessna or something. Right away I knew this had to be a big plane. At this point it looked like it was an accident and the news was treating it as such. Then, a few houses later, I ask the people about it and they are panicking and said ANOTHER plane hit.. I was like...What??? I assumed it was also an accident, like if it was a news chopper of something, but the guy says no and shows me the TV and I see the replay and I was like...holy shit! I couldnt not believe my eyes and the guy was saying its an attack. I stayed a few minutes watching it but had to continue on.

Each house had the news on and it was getting worse and worse. Then word came that other planes were being reported as hijacked and air force jets were scrambled. It was surreal. I was going to homes and women were hysterical. I was walking down streets that overlooked the water and I could see Manhattan in the distance and I could see the smoke. This one woman told me her husband was a janitor in the building and she was worried. I tried to assure her that he was probably ok, that janitors would likely be in the basement and this hit way up near the top. I was in her basement reading her meter when she screamed. I went back up and shes like.. It fell! The building fell! I look at the TV and they show it and all I could say was..OMG! She was calling his cell frantically, but calls werent going through. I tried my cell...nothing. I had to leave again and it was the same thing every few houses. Panic.

Women hugging me and crying. I was in shock. I couldnt call the other meter reader that I had dropped off in Manhassett. Streets were starting to clog up. Every fire department was sending crews into Manhattan. Northern Blvd was a parking lot. Fire engines and police sirens wailed. Fire departments horns going off. People were driving wrecklessly trying to get away, going down side streets at 50 mph. A few houses later, I watched the other tower fall. Some construction guy was watching it with me. We stood there together in disbelief. A few moments before, I saw the eerie sight on just one world trade tower standing. Now there was none. They cut back to see it fall and I remember seeing the radio tower on top seem to melt into the ground.

I called my boss and he was like..come back in. I kept trying to call the guy I dropped off in Manhassett but the phones werent working. It took me an hour to get to there, even though its one town away. I drove around till I found him and took him back with me. He shared similar storys with me. For weeks after that, I kept seeing makeshift memorials on lawns. Homes where loved ones were missing. Days after they fell, the odor of the fire and death creeped into Long Island. I smelled it all day. People were furious, but they were also forgiving of each other. People wanted to help each other and it touched me.

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Duke

07-20-2004, 07:30 PM

hmm i was 9 at then time and in 5th grade the 1st thing i rember were kids were getting pulled out of class and leaving me and some of my friends joked saying whats going on are aliens attacking? then we didnt go out for lunch which was wierd because it was like 75 degrees and sunny out but i didnt hear anything till about 2 pm... when someone came down from the office to talk to me that my dad was ok (he worked right by the world trade center at the time) but they didnt tell me what was going on then one of my class mates said a plane and hit the empire state building...then i walked out and saw my dad which was wierd because the lazy asshole that he was never picked me up from school...then i rember going into his car and i asked him what was going on... i will never forget it he said "son people took planes and crashed them into the twin towers". (the twin towers were my favorite bulidings i thought they were so cool) i asked him if any of there any of the buildings were left. he said vary little... then i saw it on TV the bulding crumbling and people running away from this massiver cloud of debris that looked like a avalanche going around the buildings..i remeber that night playing my old PS1 and playing some militray game and pretending the enemeys were the taliban i went to sleep that night hoping it was a dream.... and woke up the next morning knowing it wasnt

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07-20-2004, 07:32 PM

thank you

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Duke

07-20-2004, 07:35 PM

edit messet up on edit post

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07-23-2004, 08:14 PM

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reeshy

07-23-2004, 08:28 PM

Furie, that sig pic is definately not funny...at least not in this thread...I was trying to make a serious thread about 9/11 but I guess it's not serious to you!!!

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furie

07-23-2004, 08:46 PM

did you read my first post?

and i used to use that sig all the time 2 years ago. you never complained then.

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livin78

07-23-2004, 09:11 PM

I was driving to work on the GSP and listening to the Sports Guys. They were talking about the 1st plane hitting, but didn't seem to be a huge deal. Then someone screamed in studio "Holy shit another plane just hit" I was immediately stunned when I realized that they didn't even dump out and went completely silent for a few seconds. I got to work at the Woodbridge mall in NJ. My store is one of 2 (The other being Applebee's, so they weren't open) in the mall with a TV. It was so eerie. Every single store employee had left their gates wide open and we were all crammed in front of the TV in my store watching it. I remember even seeing the UPS guy with a cart full of packages just sitting there in stunned silence with the rest of us. There were so many emotions being expressed in that that silence. At 11 O'clock we all just said screw it and locked up and went home, regardless of the mall saying if we could or not.
Afterwards I drove out to a NY lookout point in the Watchung mountains and sat there all afternoon o the hood of my car.
Ron and Fez became more than radio hosts those following days. In fact on the 1 year anniversary they did a rememberance show and I called in to tell them how much they meant for me over that time frame.
Ron told one story that will stay with me forever. He said when him and Fez came to NY they used to share a cab home originally which took them right past the WTC. Ron said that they would get out of the studio and even after having the worst show of their career, he would look at that skyline and think "I just did a horrible show in NYC, which is better than my best show anywhere else in the world" When I recounted this story to them on the 1 year anniversary I broke down on the air a little and finally let a year of emotions come out. Thanks will never be enough to O&A and R&F for the shows they did following that tragic day.

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cheezeemee

07-23-2004, 09:15 PM

'Furie, that sig pic is definately not funny...at least not in this thread...I was trying to make a serious thread about 9/11 but I guess it's not serious to you!!!

I took my wtc guy pic down but duke still has his up
duke is such a tool
lol

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This message was edited by cheezeemee on 7-24-04 @ 1:15 AM

reeshy

07-23-2004, 09:17 PM

and i used to use that sig all the time 2 years ago. you never complained then.

I don't remember it...I still don't like...I think it's very disrespectful...that's all!!!

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reeshy

07-23-2004, 09:20 PM

did you read my first post?

yea I read your first post!!! I know that you feel bad about the whole thing and to answer the other question...yea...I'm doing fine!!! Thanks for asking...I'm sure the Korean guy is doing fine and not thinking about you or me right now!!!!

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BrownTown

07-23-2004, 09:39 PM

Oddly similar to HBox, I got woken up by my mother screaming about the first plane (I had gotten laid off a month earlier and was crashing in her basement). What she was saying didn't seem remotely real until I turned the TV on. For some unknown reason, I turned on the radio to hear what Stern had to say about the whole thing. I'll never forget watching the first tower fall then hearing Howard's live call of it after the delay caught up. As hideous as that was, it wasn't nearly as bad as realizing there were people I knew that didn't make it out over the following 12 - 24hours.

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reeshy

07-23-2004, 10:00 PM

The one thing that sticks in my mind is that when we showed up fo rescue operations, I saw all of these womens shoes all over Wall street. that sticks in my mind. All of these women running for their lives and kicking off their high heels to run and live. Damn how the mind works!!!

Also, I didn't stop coughing for about a week after I came home from there. .....that damn shit is still in my lungs!!!

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TheMojoPin

07-24-2004, 04:55 PM

Strange.

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reeshy

07-24-2004, 08:44 PM

Thanks, Mojo, for returning the thread from the staff room....It seems that there is a mod here that as an agenda..I'm getting sick and tired of it....if it was a mistake...then a simple apology will take care of it...if it was done on purpose...then a complicated answer and apology will suffice!!!!

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Duke

07-24-2004, 09:22 PM

thank you for editing it

This message was edited by Duke 04 on 7-25-04 @ 1:33 AM

reeshy

07-24-2004, 11:37 PM

thank you for editing it

What the hell does that mean, kd??

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reeshy

07-25-2004, 12:30 AM

What the hell does that mean, kd??

Oh shit...I hope that statement of mine doesn't mean that this thread will be removed to the staff room...please...I'm sorry!!!!

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SatCam

07-25-2004, 01:19 AM

just edit out the word "hell" and everything will be fine.

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furie

07-25-2004, 08:38 AM

ok, you understand that it's not real right? that's a photoshoped picture. So my sig is a spoof of a joke that i didn't even create.

explain the problem to me

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cheezeemee

07-25-2004, 08:54 AM

maybe he was talking to me furie? thats why i took it down. if not its down and gone.
nvm
edit: he was clearly talking to you

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Duke

07-25-2004, 06:56 PM

yea i was talking to you CZM

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cheezeemee

07-25-2004, 07:04 PM

Um I was talking to furie who was talking to reeshy who was not talking to me or you but in some way made me take it down because he was talking to furie and would never of have been talking to furie in the first place because furie was inspired by me to do that thing he did and this in no way involves you. you are an attention whore and shall be treated like one.
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reeshy

07-25-2004, 07:23 PM

explain the problem to me

OK Furie,

I don't feel I how you an explanation...but here goes.

When this forum was started, one of the rules was that no jokes allowed...I wanted this thread to be serious...I know you didn't mean anything by it but your sigpic offended...I know the history of that picture...I know it was photoshopped.....I know you didn't mean anything by it again.....so forget it and just please keep this thread serious...thanks

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Duke

07-28-2004, 06:10 AM

i am not trying to be a attion whore i just didnt think that picture was right

ok?

i didnt mean to start a fight

sorry

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furie

07-28-2004, 04:14 PM

move along duke

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Duke

07-28-2004, 05:44 PM

ok furie, back to the topic

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hyperspace

07-28-2004, 05:48 PM

i was leaving my gym and a bunch of people were crowded by the T.V. and i thought"oh an apartment building is on fire" when i got in the car i had K-rock on and i heard howard stern say to cabbie "your telling me another plane crashed into the other tower too??" then i went home and saw all the news reports.

Lumber

07-29-2004, 04:10 AM

I was visiting Mom in Nutley, N.J. when I saw what happened on t.v.. I got in my Jeep & drove to Jersey City , parked & walked down to Journal Square. I could`nt believe what was unfolding before me.

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furie

07-29-2004, 01:02 PM

so here's a new direction to this thread, did anyone go to ground zero? If so when, what werre your thoughts, were you affected by it?

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Duke

07-29-2004, 01:23 PM

i rember going to ground zero some guy was handing out maps about where the towers were and stuff...it was sad and wierd because i was thinking about how diffrent it was when the world trade center was there and i dont only mean ground zero like a few blocks up from ground zero it was too quite and it didnt seem like downtown...

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TheMojoPin

07-29-2004, 08:32 PM

I haven't been to NYC in about 5 years, so I've yet to see Ground Zero at any point.

I DID, however, come home three days after 9/11 (That weekend) to DC to see my parents, and my mom and I drove to go see the Pentagon and the crash site, just for SOME kind of understanding. Everything was still so wonky at this point, that I had to see it just to fully get how real this all was.

We drove up opposite the crash site, and walked up the hill by the Marines' quarters there. My friend from middle school, Chuck Diamond, met us there. He serves in the Corp, and worked in an office just about 250 yards from the crash site. He actually ended up going to the memorial service at the National Cathedral as an official Marine rep, and ended up on TV right by Chelsea Clinton. Weird.

Anyway, we end up on this hill across the parking lot, right next to Arlington Cemetary (Which I still wonder about...the plane crash would have been right by the guard at the Tomb of The Unknowns. Those guys don't move for ANYTHING, unless someone is coming at them. Would something THIS awful have gotten the Guard to break post?). And there's just this brutal slice right into the building. I know the damage didn't compare to NYC, but this still looked horribly wrong. My dad worked in the Pentagon about ten years ago, and so I was alwyas used to its very "precise" shape, and this murderous gash into the building just screamed like it shouldn't be there. And man, I've never seen anything that burned. It was just seared to a pitch black. And the longterm renovations had just been completed there, too...which probably helped minimize the damage and death, since new fire/explosion precautions had been installed.

And again, I know this can't compare to NYC, but the smell was the worst. Just all that burnt fuel and the parts of the building turned to ash and charred ruin. And I'd smelled burning flesh before. Even across that parking lot, on the hill, it still smelled like death. And I'll never forget that smell for the rest of my life.

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A.J.

08-02-2004, 09:39 AM

And the longterm renovations had just been completed there, too...which probably helped minimize the damage and death, since new fire/explosion precautions had been installed.

One of my co-workers was in an office that was closer to the point of impact than my own office was (and my office was pretty damn close). He told me that he was at his desk when a fireball shot past his window. If it had been one of the old, non-blast absorbant windows, he would have been cooked.

The ONLY good thing about that day for the Pentagon was that the plane hit the renovated wedge. If it had hit any other part of the building I'm certain that not only would the building have been lost but so would have a lot of top brass and senior officials.

And again, I know this can't compare to NYC, but the smell was the worst.

My boss at the time, a Navy Commander, had body bag detail that night. A bad as it was from far away, it was much worse inside. He told me he could never eat certain foods again because they reminded him of the smell.

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TheMojoPin

08-02-2004, 10:36 AM

The ONLY good thing about that day for the Pentagon was that the plane hit the renovated wedge. If it had hit any other part of the building I'm certain that not only would the building have been lost but so would have a lot of top brass and senior officials.

That, and the plan actually hit the ground in front of the building, as opposed to plowing right into it.

I'm a little confused, AJ...I remember hearing that the section hit was the LAST to be renovated, as if all the sides had already been finished. Am I incorrect in assuming that? Maybe they were just saying THAT section had just been finished up relatively recently, and I somehow fucked it up.

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