10 Years Later,what Are Your Memories Of 9/11

[disneyspy]

listening to the buddays talking about 9/11 pulls me back to the attacks and how proud i was of the country pulling together after that horrible day,i liked how there was no black or white but people wanting to know what they could do to help and how people suddenly appreciated the police and firemen and other first responders

[CountryBob]

Yes - sad it takes a disaster for everybody to put differences aside and become unified. Funny how we dont sport the flag much but after that day - every car, front yard, business and lapels of suits had old glory flying for a longtime.

[Melrapuo]

I was in 9th grade at the time. We had heard about a small plane, but once we turned the news on we had already found out that one tower had collapsed. My teacher didn't really know what to do. She told us to continue with the test, until, live on TV, the second tower collapsed. I literally threw my pen up in the air and looked at my teacher as if to say "ok something way more traumatic is happening and we shouldn't be taking this test."

I had one friend who's mom worked in the second tower. I remember trying to comfort him when he got home from school, and he kept saying "O well the phone's are down so she'll probably just call us when she gets a chance to call." You could see all the hope in his face but I just kept telling him that I was sure he was right. We ended up finding out weeks later that his mom never made it out. She had made it to the ground floor when the second tower collapsed, and she was literally hundreds of feet away from running out when it came down. (My friend died earlier this year from a freak fall on his campus. He was only 21. That family is a complete wreck at this point.)

I remember that I couldn't go home without one of my parents picking me up. My dad came around 3pm to get me. When I got home, I was just staring at the towers, and weirded out by just how quiet it had gotten in my town. Secaucus is pretty busy during the day, but they had shut everything down. The only sound was people talking down the block and the air force flying overhead. My mom and sister had to stay at work because they were on call in case there was a massive overflow of injuries that had to be transferred to their hospital. (Found out my mom watched the second plane hit from her window. She was pretty shaken up from that.)

It was a very surreal day. We didn't know if there were more attacks. People kept saying a total of 8 planes were hijacked, and four were missing (i loved this part. I told them that its kinda hard to lose a plane unless it crashed in the ocean, or something else. But I wasn't shocked by how confused people were of this.)

It did make me feel good that so many people had banded together to help everyone around them. It was the most patriotic I had ever felt in my life. The sad thing is, I feel like its all pretty much gone now. Even with the new tower being built, the fact that they have prevented first responders from showing up is pretty unfair. And whenever people complain about airplane security and their privacy being violated, I just want to yell in their face and ask them if they remembered anything from 9/11. But meh, no surprise that people tend to forget.

[Misteriosa]

i didnt have cable at the time. i remember getting home (i was running early morning errands) and wondering why none of the channels except for 2 were working. then 2 kept playing the intial crash nonstop.

i kept running out to my balcony because i couldnt believe what i was seeing on tv. when i saw the smoke in real time/ real life, i still couldnt wrap my head around what i was seeing.

i was also stressed out becuase i thought my sister went down there for her first day of work. she slept in, which i found incredible because who the fuck sleeps in on her first day of work. we were freaked until she managed to get a call thru and tell us she was ok.

i did find out later that my cousin died on the towers. he was working at windows on the world at the time. he was a happy, fun loving guy, all 200+ lbs of him. they only found a piece of his femur.

[DOHO@HOME]

This will sound weird but watching it on t.v. when I got home from work I was happy that my brother who died a month earlier didn't have to see that happen and openly cried my heart out.
My wife thought I was crying about my brothers death and when I told the reason she started crying as well.
I hate watching the shit on t.v. now and will turn it everytime they show the towers fall, I still can't believe it happen.:huh:

[Furtherman]

I saw the whole thing live in real time. I could describe each moment.

[Earlshog]

I saw the whole thing live in real time. I could describe each moment.

same here and its so true. I can remember every detail of the day minute by minute. Down to what the people in my office were wearing. Its like I have that Marilu Henner memory of just one day...

[TripleSkeet]

I was asleep. I had a phone in the living room of my apt. but kept my cell by my bed. So my house phone keeps ringing off the hook and I hear yelling on my answering machine. So I finally come answer the phone and yell at my girl for not calling my cell phone. All she says is "Theyre attacking! Put on the news". I turned on the tv right before the 2nd plane hit. It was such a holy shit moment. I remember I watched TV all day then had to go to work because apparently my bosses thought people were going to want to go out and drink that Tuesday night. Wound up just sitting at the bar watching tv with the cowrokers until we closed.

[razorboy]

I was taking a three hour long class in the recording studios in the basement of the theater at my university. We staggered our schedules so we all had time working with as small a group as possible in one of the four studios. Around halfway through each class we had a twenty minute break and I had gone up to the food court area at the student union to get a soda and have a smoke. I was walking past one of the TVs in the food court and saw all of the people crowded around so I asked what was going on. About two minutes into the explanation and subsequent conversation the second tower was hit.

I had left my phone down in the studio, so I ran out to the nearest unoccupied payphone which was across a courtyard from the student union. I called my Dad to make sure he had talked to my older Sister who was living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan at the time. After everything checked out there I went back to the studios and told the professor and other students what was happening. Since we spent those three hours in a basement locked in a small soundproofed room with headphones on we were unlikely to get outside news. We all went up to a TV in the auditorium upstairs and watched the towers fall. By that time all non resident students were asked to leave campus so I picked up my ex who had classes at the same time and we drove back home.

The rest of the day was a bit of a blur. We were watching the news, and on the phone trying to wrap our heads around what had happened. Around 3:30 or so I started drinking heavily so I have nothing after that.

I do remember feeling sort of numb and detached from reality while it was happening. Probably a defense mechanism, but to this day I do the same thing. When it comes up I just shut everything off. I can have a conversation about it, but I don't think I've ever been honest with myself or anyone else about how I felt that day.

[furie]

I was working at JFK for INS, the 6-2 shift. that was unusual for me, as i never worked mornings. When the first plane hit i was in terminal 3 clearing a south african flight. after the flight i was being driven over to terminal 1 (ramp side) when the driver was telling us all about a plane hitting the tower. we could see the smoke and we listened to the radio.
Since there were no flights for a while we stood out on the tarmac watching the smoke, when we saw the second plane come in and hit the second tower.

I didn't freak, i don't think i really understood the full implication of what i saw.

About an hour later, we were told that the airspace had been closed and we had to admit all the TWOV's (look it up i don't have time). since we didn't know how long the airspace would be closed, we just let them into the country.
I then spent the next three days working at the JFK command post. three days later I transfered to the FAA.

The one memory that really stuck with me though, was how quiet JFK was as the day wore on. that place has a constant din and everything is in motion. then, silent and empty.

[StanUpshaw]

Being so far away from NY, it didn't have nearly the personal effect on me that it did most of you. Most of my thoughts on the event have been completely overwhelmed by the all the horrible shit that has come as a result -- war, the Patriot act, and the myriad other assaults on liberty. It turned people who I thought I knew into racists, conspiracy theorists, and savages who danced in the street celebrating death. As tragic as the attacks were, the subsequent decade is where I always end up directing my sorrow.


Until I hear this song, then I'm right back there, sitting outside my shitty apartment at 5 AM, listening to the radio in my truck because my cable hadn't got hooked up yet.
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[PapaBear]

From the listening thread today...
remember how weird it was to not see or hear airplanes? even in the midwest it was eerie
Where I live, the sky is constantly full of airline traffic, due to our proximity to Dulles. What struck me the next day was when I got out of my car at a nearby college. I looked up at the clear blue sky (just like it was the day before), and I saw one lone contrail in the sky. It was my first almost good feeling in over 24 hours.

[smiler grogan]

I was working on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when it happened. As the planes hit and the reports of D.C. and PA all started coming in it felt like at any second something was going to explode right next to you.

I lived in Brooklyn at the time and this yellow/brown scar was right over my apartment all day. I has a ton of papers in front of my building from the towers.

That acrid smell seemed to last forever.

Seeing and hearing militar aircraft became a comfort. I felt a little nervous when I learned they were not doing that anymore.

That empty feeling seemed to last for months.

In some ways it feels like a really long time ago, in others it feels like it was a year ago.

[Judge Smails]

I was actually at a work conference in Philadelphia during the attacks. Everyone freaked out after they heard about the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania and there was a mass exodus trying to get out of Philly causing major gridlock. I can only imagine what it must have been like in NYC.

The guys were talking today about getting back to normal and even being able to laugh again. At the time, I was commuting up the NJ Turnpike to work everyday. Ordinarily as you got close to Manhattan you would see the towers before anything else. That first week was just surreal not seeing them and only seeing smoke rising from the hole in the skyline where they should have been.

As to the laughing thing, I remember listening to Stern on the radio one moning on my drive. It was like a week or two after 9/11. I forget what he said but it was mildly amusing. Anyway, I found myself guffawing at this little comment, and I'm someone who very rarely will laugh out loud but it just felt like a floodgate opened. I didn't even know why I was finding such a little aside as being so funny.

As I was laughing I looked to my left and in the lane next to me there was this construction company pickup. The cab was packed with six guys wearing hardhats and they all had the most somber faces I'd ever seen. It immediately struck me that these guys were either on their way to or on their way from working on the pile. I briefly locked eyes with one guy who seemed to give me a disapproving look for having such a jolly time for myself.

To this day I still don't know if I imagined the look he gave me because I felt guilty myself. But it was a long time after that where I felt like laughing again. I know that for a while I only listened to the news station in the car and gave up on Stern, O and A and Ron and Fez.

[PapaBear]

I just remembered something that infuriated me that day (besides the attacks). I was working at Wal Mart. The electronics department had the coverage on all of the TV's. This NEVER happens at Wal Mart. 99.9% of the shoppers and employees were in the typical 9/11 state of shock.

Then I see this one family. They were the poster children for fat, disgusting, white trash idiots, shopping to their heart's content. The 300lbs+ mother points to the wall of TV's and says, "Look. That's that building that fell down today." Thankfully, management announced that all non essential staff could go home to be with family about ten minutes later. If I had seen anyone else like that bitch, I might have lost my shit.

[mdr55]

I remember 9/10 when I went to the World Trade it was raining mad as heck that night so I walked around the concourse just taking stuff in since I haven't been there for awhile. I ended up buying an umbrella in one of the news stands there and walked to Chinatown in the wet weather to get dinner since that was the reason I went there. Took the PATH back home thinking I'll come back next week and try one of the eateries on the concourse there. Took me a year to return to Ground Zero and go to the same spot I ate at on 9/10. I'm going to NYC today and do the stuff I did 9/10 ten years ago.


9/11 I was working in Essex County Newark at the time and our team was doing our regular routine before our triage before we went our into the field. My co-worker James comes in the office and says "A plane just hit the World Trade Center" We all looked at him with the look yeah right. He says "You don't believe me. Turn on the radio and t.v.. So we all went to the t.v., the only channel that was working was the spanish channel. My team and the 3 other teams in the building watched the t.v. in shock. Then the 2nd plane hit. And you knew it wasn't a coincidence. We were being attacked. And when the Towers fell and seeing people jumping, everyone was in shock and crying. Our director told us we still had to do our runs as our clients were probably seeing the same thing. So we did our rounds. We got the word that we were closing early so the staff that was there left. I still had 2 people out in the field and told my director I can't leave yet, I got 2 people still out there. Once they came back it took me 5 hours to get home and I live in Jersey City. Every road was close, I just drove around different ways to see how I could get home. Traffic everywhere, people just walking. Crazy stuff.

I was also trained as a debriefer at my work, thinking that they would call and get the debriefing team together to assist with any of the survivors of the collapse but after awhile it became evident that there were none.

[Judge Smails]

Along the lines of what Papabear said - As I mentioned I was at a conference in Philadelphia. During a break a receptionist mentioned that a plane hit the WTC. Everyone crowded around her radio to hear the news. I headed down to the street to this stock-ticker place that I had seen earlier with a bunch of t.v.'s in the window running news and stock info.

When I got there there was a big crowd watching the coverage. I still hadn't realized what a big deal this was - having been out of the loop to that point. I was looking at the t.v. and there was only one tower. It looked like the shot was taken from some distance and I couldn't figure out how they managed to only get one tower in the frame. Maybe I didn't want to believe what I was seeing but I finally asked a guy "what happened to the other tower?" and he nonchalantly says "oh, that one fell down."

It was at that point that the magnitude of what happened struck me all at once and, no offense to Philly, but I knew each tower was more than twice as tall as the tallest building in Philly and this wasn't something to be nonchalant about. Like I said in my previous post, it wasn't until news of the Shanksville, PA crash came through that everyone in Philly seemed to start to lose their shit too.

[keithy_19]

I was in 8th grade in 2001. I heard about the attacks during english, second period. My teacher was listening to the radio as the class was walking into class. We just kind of sat there and she said "two planes hit the world trade center". I remember her saying "things will be difficult for awhile". Third period I had phys ed and the whole grade was there. We just milled around the gym. One kid was going around reporting all the rumors that were going around. As the period went on you started seeing kids being taken out of class by their parents. My brother was a senior and I saw him come into the gym and tell me that my mom was there to pick us up and that she had talked to my dad and he was ok.

My dad worked five blocks from the Trade Centers and watched the second plane hit. When the towers collapsed his building was covered in ash and debris. We sat around my house and wondered if he was ok, since he had called before the collapse. Around two o'clock I saw him walking down the hill on my street towards the house. Everyone ran outside. I remember holding my dog back from running into the street (even though the streets were painfully quiet). He had been able to get out of the city by taking a bridge that wasn't closed yet.

The whole day was surreal. I remember how it was such a beautiful day outside and how quiet it was. And the ploom of smoke that was coming from the skyline (you could see the trade centers from my house, although a distant view). I hadn't been down to where they were until about a year ago. I went into the city to see a show and took the path in.

[furie]

where's the thread from 9/11/01? i couldn't find it.

[disneyspy]

where's the thread from 9/11/01? i couldn't find it.

i couldnt either but i found this one from 02

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17740&highlight=twin+towers

[furie]

i couldnt either but i found this one from 02

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17740&highlight=twin+towers

yeah saw that one. but the one from the morning of 9-11 was titled something like "OMG a plane hit the WTC!!"

it would be interesting to reread everyone's raw reactions.

[Judge Smails]

yeah saw that one. but the one from the morning of 9-11 was titled something like "OMG a plane hit the WTC!!"

it would be interesting to reread everyone's raw reactions.

I just found it on the Wayback Machine archive. I can't post a link now because I'm on my phone. I'll post it when I get home unless someone posts it first.

If you're looking for it, the thread is titled "HOLY SHIT!!!" and was started by WWFallon.

[StanUpshaw]

http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3841

[disneyspy]

your right furie,that thread and the raw reactions was like a trip back in time for me,i forgot how angry i was back on that day

[boobieman]

So many thing stand out from that day and time. I remember the Saturday that followed 9/11 my block was going to have a block party but the women running it decided to cancel it. I felt we should still have it, to have every together, friends, family and neighbors. It was cancelled but i said screw it and just had the people I invited to the block party at my apartment, 40-50 people in a 4 room apartment, one of the best parties I ever had and still think about to this day.

Anything that I still think about..for about 1 or 2 weeks after 9/11 I will always remember looking up and not see one plane in the sky...found that amazing.

But when the shit came down, I remember where I was, what I was doing. Every detail is still so crystal clear. And the emotions, fear, anger, sad, and happy that I did not lose anyone and my wife, who I could not reach for a few hours was by my side.

Late Buddies.....

SEEYEYAYAYYAAAA

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I just think that there is too much media coverage going on. Im not saying that I wont reflect or remember that day but Its just too much in my opinion. I know others might disagree. I dont think theres a wrong or right way to go thru the day tomorrow.

I just choose not to watch all the news coverage going on.

[disneyspy]

ya with there already being a listening thread about this and a memories thread this is overkill ,good job

[WRESTLINGFAN]

ya with there already being a listening thread about this and a memories thread this is overkill ,good job

The thread was about how you are going thru the day tomorrow. Stay on topic please

[disneyspy]

The thread was about how you are going thru the day tomorrow. Stay on topic please

heres what i plan on doing,if you start another overkill thread on the subject i will ban you

[WRESTLINGFAN]

heres what i plan on doing,if you start another overkill thread on the subject i will ban you

Overkill?

Send your gripes to ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS etc. Now they are the ones overkilling it

[disneyspy]

Overkill?

Send your gripes to ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS etc. Now they are the ones overkilling it

you can't see that you're doing the exact same thing as you're bitching about?

[WRESTLINGFAN]

you can't see that you're doing the exact same thing as you're bitching about?

Im saying how I will go thru my day tomorrow.

I am in a wedding party tomorrow. For some people it might be disrespecting that date and what happened but for some like me its that life must go on and I dont want to be in front of the TV all day. I am in no way dismissing 9/11 at all but life has to go on. Now if people want to watch coverage all day, thats fine, Im not going to criticize them. Im saying that theres no right or wrong way.

[Pitdoc]

I had gotten off a 12 hr night-shift,and was just going to bed when I heard on Stern that a plane had hit the first tower.Got up , turned on TV, watched for 10 minutes, then went back to bed with Stern playing me to sleep. When he announced the SECOND plane hitting,I was up for 6 hrs.
The next night, the 12th, I went down to Ground Zero with a bunch of EMTs from my hospital, and spent about 10 hours on the pile, lifting and carrying shit .Nothing heroic , they just needed people to search ( we didn't know at the time that the last one saved was about 10 hrs before we got there). It looked ...surreal . 2 o'clock in the morning , and like a quiet dust storm in the air . I remember the words"MORGUE" and a big arrow spray -painted on the marble of the Brooks Brothers store to tell teams where to take bodies . How every time a body, or piece of one, was found , there was always silence & reverence at it was taken out . How there were groups everywhere to give you hot food, or supplies like gloves or flashlights, whenever you needed them . How a building that used to house Borders Books looked like it had a big gaping chunk PUNCHED out of it, like from a comic book villain. How every building surface and untouched item was covered with dust, and people had scrawled sayings in the dust everywhere; some vengeful, some crushing. How, when you were working for 1-2 hrs straight, you never said a word, just picking up debris, handing it to the next guy , looking in holes, just..so quiet....

Shit.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Just got into work in midtown about 8:50 one of my coworkers said a plane hit the twin towers. At 1st I thought it was a cessna or small plane there wasnt a TV around we had to go to the trading floor for that. Back in WW2 a B29 crashed int the empire state building. But when the 2nd plane hit I knew it was terrorism. It was a sunny day with no clouds at all

Trying to get internet feeds didnt work as millions were on looking to see what happened. I heard someone come up to our part of the office almost in tears saying that one of the towers is completely gone. Not too long later the other one came down.

There was also the Pentagon getting hit and the other plane going down in Shanksville. I remember walking around midtown in the afternoon and just the strangeness of people being quiet and seeing the smoke make its way uptown from the near tip of Manhattan

[KnoxHarrington]

On 9/10/2001, I'd had a little tiny fender-bender car accident, so I'd decided to take the day off to go get the police report, and do some other shit. So at about 8:45 AM, I was just getting up, and I'd turned on the TV while I was getting ready to go. I had it on the CBS morning show for some reason, though I never watched it.

The first report came in of a plane hitting the WTC, and while they were treating it as a big story, at the same time they were downplaying it. I seem to recall they were actually reporting it as a small plane, so it just sounded like some dumbass had gotten lost and smacked into the WTC. So I was sort of about halfway watching it, not really paying much attention.

And then I looked up at the screen, and suddenly this 2nd plane comes streaking in and slams into the 2nd tower. I remember screaming "HOLY FUCK" at the top of my lungs. The shit got real.

And later I remember standing there watching the towers collapse, and it was just almost too much to take.

That's the main thing I remember about that day: the sense of unreality that fell over everything. For reasons I cannot fathom now, I decided to go ahead and go to police HQ and get my police report. When I got there, things were just in utter and complete chaos, of course. There were still reports of other planes in the skies, other attacks to come. It felt like the whole country was under attack, that someone had just declared war on us. Which they had. So here's my dumb ass walking into the police station wanting a report on a stupid little crash the day before. Bizarrely enough, there was someone there who gave me my report, but that teensy little bit of normal, everyday activity in the middle of all this insanity made things feel even weirder.

[Snacks]

Im watching the coverage of the 9/11 memorial and its very emotional. Seeing President Obama, Mrs Obama, President Bush and Mrs Bush walking around the beautiful memorial pools is a really nice picture. It shows that as a country we really are separated on politics but we really do come together when needed. I just wish we could do this more!

I hope no Obama supporters/haters or Bush supporters/haters make any stupid public comments or protests.

[Liverspot]

I just listened to the buddays 9-11-01 show last night, wow.

I was in my cubicle in Chattanooga when first plane hit. My internet connection went from exceedingly slow to non-existant. Co-worker popped his head in to tll me a plane had hit the WTC and I kind of chuckled thinking it was a Cessna or Beechcraft. He clarified that it was a passenger plane but still thought is was a horrible accident at this point. A neighboring cubicle had a tiny tv and six of us crowded around this thing to watch the events unfold. Very surreal. My wife called soon after the second plane hit, crying and out of her mind and I went straight home for the day.

I had no idea who Ron and Fez were until around 4 years later.

[mdr55]

Holy shit. My friend text me last night that he can't stand watching this 9/11 stuff and how they're portraying it and all not telling the whole story. I'm text him back and tell him you're kidding right? and he brings up the new world order and ring of power stuff on youtube. no video of the plane hitting the pentagon, explosives brought the towers down not the plane fuel, etc. I text him back this is Rosie O'Donnell shit that she was taking about when this happened and other conspiracy theorists. It's a shame that we have people thinking shit like this to this day. WTF?

[sailor]

Holy shit. My friend text me last night that he can't stand watching this 9/11 stuff and how they're portraying it and all not telling the whole story. I'm text him back and tell him you're kidding right? and he brings up the new world order and ring of power stuff on youtube. no video of the plane hitting the pentagon, explosives brought the towers down not the plane fuel, etc. I text him back this is Rosie O'Donnell shit that she was taking about when this happened and other conspiracy theorists. It's a shame that we have people thinking shit like this to this day. WTF?

slate had a good series on the rise & fall of popularity for these conspiracy theories. they're actually at a very low point now, at least in the US.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Ive seen loose change, Ive also saw screw loose change, the response to that. Also the documentary I think on history channel comparing the truthers to people who refuted their theories. I just wanted to see both sides. I always discredited truthers but I felt I should still see their side of the story no matter how wacky it is


Theres no way the government could have planned and carried out 9/11. If it did it would have been leaked out already, plus the gov't is inept of so many things.

[furie]

The thread was about how you are going thru the day tomorrow. Stay on topic please

10 Years Later,what Are Your Memories Of 9/11


oh really?

[Judge Smails]

Holy shit. My friend text me last night that he can't stand watching this 9/11 stuff and how they're portraying it and all not telling the whole story. I'm text him back and tell him you're kidding right? and he brings up the new world order and ring of power stuff on youtube. no video of the plane hitting the pentagon, explosives brought the towers down not the plane fuel, etc. I text him back this is Rosie O'Donnell shit that she was taking about when this happened and other conspiracy theorists. It's a shame that we have people thinking shit like this to this day. WTF?

I worked closely with one of these guys for a couple of months. Absolutely no amount of logic will get through to them. Its not even worth discussing. You will only make yourself crazy. I found it better to just avoid the subject and if he ever brought up some nutty "fact" I would just act like I didn't hear it.

[sailor]

oh really?

I think WF started a new thread which got merged here. That's what he was talking about.

[KnoxHarrington]

I worked closely with one of these guys for a couple of months. Absolutely no amount of logic will get through to them. Its not even worth discussing. You will only make yourself crazy. I found it better to just avoid the subject and if he ever brought up some nutty "fact" I would just act like I didn't hear it.

Conspiracy theorists get off on the feeling that they know the truth that us sheeple won't allow ourselves to see. That's the whole thrill of it to them.

[Judge Smails]

Conspiracy theorists get off on the feeling that they know the truth that us sheeple won't allow ourselves to see. That's the whole thrill of it to them.

The craziest thing to happen was when my son came home and told me his gym teacher was telling the class about how there was another shooter on the grassy knoll and how Oswald couldn't have fired all of the shots. I set my son straight and was ready to go down to the school and rip everyone a new one until my son begged me not to cause a brouhaha. But I told him to tell me if anything like that happens again. I still regret not doing something at the time.

[brettmojo]

The craziest thing to happen was when my son came home and told me his gym teacher was telling the class about how there was another shooter on the grassy knoll and how Oswald couldn't have fired all of the shots. I set my son straight and was ready to go down to the school and rip everyone a new one until my son begged me not to cause a brouhaha. But I told him to tell me if anything like that happens again. I still regret not doing something at the time.
Did you emphasize the fact that this was coming from a GYM teacher?

[sailor]

Did you emphasize the fact that this was coming from a GYM teacher?

he's 85, like he'll remember those details.

[Judge Smails]

he's 85, like he'll remember those details.

Weren't you the guy who said you were 13 during the 1980 Olympics and you ate all the free McDonalds? Turns out you're older than me, douche.

[Dude!]

Weren't you the guy who said you were 13 during the 1980 Olympics and you ate all the free McDonalds? Turns out you're older than me, douche.

face!

so sailor pretends he's like 30
and he's really 44

ha ha...he's in disneyspy territory

[disneyspy]

ya FACE!

[Judge Smails]

Excuse me, it was the 1984 Olympics. But that still makes you the exact same age as me and still a douche.

[sailor]

Weren't you the guy who said you were 13 during the 1980 Olympics and you ate all the free McDonalds? Turns out you're older than me, douche.

Relax. It read like you were saying your kid was in school during the JFK shooting, which would put you at like 85-90.

[Justice4all]

I had gotten home from work (I worked as a dispatcher for a police dept.) at 7am. I worked a 12 hour shift. So I logged online for about an hour then had to get ready for court. I was getting divorced that day. I took my shower and went downstairs. I was staying at my parent's house because they lived in the town I worked in. My mother was taking care of two kids (family friends) and she was holding one of them in her arms when she was flipping the channels. I told her to stop and go back.

That's when we saw the 1st tower burning. We were debating the size of the plane that could have done that type of damage when the second plane hit. My mother thought the explosion from the 1st tower caused the second tower to blow up. All of the sudden, all the local channels were dead. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, UPN, WB. All of them. We thought the cable went out. I told my mom to go to CNN and sure enough, they were broadcasting what had happened. My mom yelled "We're under attack!" I told her that after Oklahoma City we need to make sure and not just assume it's the Arabs.

Well I went into Newark for divorce court, and as mdr55 said, it was a madhouse. I went into the courthouse, got divorced, and when I left court, the towers were gone. It hit me the worst when, as I went back home on Rt. 3 I saw about 2 dozen EMT trucks from Sussex County fly by. There was one from every town in the county. The roads were barren so they could do 70 with ease. Sussex county is the north-western area of the state, about 45 plus minutes from Manhattan. To see them so far out of their area.....

So I went home, called work and asked them if they wanted me to be in early (of course they did) so I went back to work at about 4pm. Worked the entire night shift again. Not ONE peep from the town. When the authorities allowed the planes to resume their original flights to get the rest of the travelers home and you could hear them flying overhead the onslaught of 911 calls came in. "I HEARD PLANES OVERHEAD! I THINK THEY'RE ATTACKING AGAIN" I told them it was ok that the govt. allowed the flights to finish.

Got home at about 8am on Weds. morning. after being wired all night sitting at my desk waiting for the other shoe to drop (so to speak). All we could do it be glued to the TV and watch the carnage on tv from where the towers once stood.

I was up from 5pm on Monday until 8am on Weds. All I remember when I got home was looking at my bed and then waking up 13 hours later. I didn't even remember taking a shower, getting into bed and sleeping. We sent some officers from our department to the city, the ones with EMT and paramedic training, but sadly, it was more recovery and not rescue. One of my officers lost his brother in the tower. He was devastated from it.

What I remember most was how beautiful the weather was for the next 2-3 months. It almost never rained, the sky was clear. Temp. in the 70's with no humidity. It allowed the workers to clear the site much faster than was expected. It was almost like God was rooting for us and not them. Which I found a little comforting.

[Earlshog]

I had gotten home from work (I worked as a dispatcher for a police dept.) at 7am. I worked a 12 hour shift. So I logged online for about an hour then had to get ready for court. I was getting divorced that day. I took my shower and went downstairs. I was staying at my parent's house because they lived in the town I worked in. My mother was taking care of two kids (family friends) and she was holding one of them in her arms when she was flipping the channels. I told her to stop and go back.

That's when we saw the 1st tower burning. We were debating the size of the plane that could have done that type of damage when the second plane hit. My mother thought the explosion from the 1st tower caused the second tower to blow up. All of the sudden, all the local channels were dead. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, UPN, WB. All of them. We thought the cable went out. I told my mom to go to CNN and sure enough, they were broadcasting what had happened. My mom yelled "We're under attack!" I told her that after Oklahoma City we need to make sure and not just assume it's the Arabs.
Well I went into Newark for divorce court, and as mdr55 said, it was a madhouse. I went into the courthouse, got divorced, and when I left court, the towers were gone. It hit me the worst when, as I went back home on Rt. 3 I saw about 2 dozen EMT trucks from Sussex County fly by. There was one from every town in the county. The roads were barren so they could do 70 with ease. Sussex county is the north-western area of the state, about 45 plus minutes from Manhattan. To see them so far out of their area.....

So I went home, called work and asked them if they wanted me to be in early (of course they did) so I went back to work at about 4pm. Worked the entire night shift again. Not ONE peep from the town. When the authorities allowed the planes to resume their original flights to get the rest of the travelers home and you could hear them flying overhead the onslaught of 911 calls came in. "I HEARD PLANES OVERHEAD! I THINK THEY'RE ATTACKING AGAIN" I told them it was ok that the govt. allowed the flights to finish.

Got home at about 8am on Weds. morning. after being wired all night sitting at my desk waiting for the other shoe to drop (so to speak). All we could do it be glued to the TV and watch the carnage on tv from where the towers once stood.

I was up from 5pm on Monday until 8am on Weds. All I remember when I got home was looking at my bed and then waking up 13 hours later. I didn't even remember taking a shower, getting into bed and sleeping. We sent some officers from our department to the city, the ones with EMT and paramedic training, but sadly, it was more recovery and not rescue. One of my officers lost his brother in the tower. He was devastated from it.

What I remember most was how beautiful the weather was for the next 2-3 months. It almost never rained, the sky was clear. Temp. in the 70's with no humidity. It allowed the workers to clear the site much faster than was expected. It was almost like God was rooting for us and not them. Which I found a little comforting.

nailed that one! :tongue:

just playing... I forgot how nice the weather was in the coming months..