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Where were you on 9-11; A day of remembrance
Topic Started: Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:35 am (582 Views)
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At the suggestion of Spocklet-


I was married about 3 weeks. I was on my way to work, a beautiful Tuesday in NY. Got to work, and was excited to see my ex asst manager there. She was transferred to another branch but there was a meeting for a package our bank promoted.

After my assistant and I got the tellers ready for the day, we joined our ex asst manager in the back area. It was the managers office but when we merged with another bank, it was just easier to make it a lunch room for us. We had on Good Morning America. ABC was the only station that came in real well. I never complained about it because the soaps I watched were on that station...so we never had to fight over which ones to watch.

We were eating breakfast, getting coffee when Charlie Gibson said a plane hit the WTC. We looked at each other and I remember saying something along the lines of how stupid. How could they not see the WTC. Now mind you, I thought it was a small plane that veered off course or something like that. Then another hit and we lost coverage. We did not have cable or satellite for the tv and because the antennas were atop the buildings, we lost coverage. My manager had his 1950s style radio out by his desk and we listened. It felt eerie. Like "War of the Worlds", but sadly this was real.

I went to call my family and friends that I knew were in Manhattan working, but I forgot my cell in the car and all my numbers were stored in it. I went to the car...my job at the time was approx 15 miles away from Ground Zero and I felt the debris there. You could smell it, taste it. I got my phone and made my calls. Good, for now I was safe. All my "people" were OK.

I worked in a Jewish neighborhood. Most of them were from Europe. Most escaped Hitler's reign. One of the new account reps did when she was a child and it brought her right back to that time. She cried, like the rest of us, but for her it was different. All I could do was hug her and cry with her. There was a lot of that going on that day.

Finally we got the call to close the branch and go home. I drove from Brooklyn to Staten Island in tears. The whole city became polite. Everyone waited their turn to go. No one beeped their horns. No one lost patience. Strangers hugged strangers in the street.

I finally got home and watched all night with my husband. I called my mom constantly on the phone. She lived about 10 miles from the site in Brooklyn. I grew up in that apt. I could see the WTC from the stoop. I have pictures of that very spot. I cried that night, for many days.

Then the stories came in. My friend Jennifer...her husband worked for a moving company and he was suppose to be there that day but they decided to wait another day. My cousin worked for the Port Authority but he cleared out his men and survived. My cousin was suppose to be at work but got back a day later from vacation so they weren't there that day. I would find out years later that my cousin that I found on facebook was suppose to start a new job at Cantor Fitzgerald but was held back a few weeks due to a car accident.

Then I found out that I wasn't as lucky as I thought. As a child growing up in Brooklyn, your neighbors became family. Roseann was 10 years or so older than me. She was one of 10 children (I believe 10 maybe 9). She was the one that would always treat the younger kids with respect. She was the one I wanted to be her boyfriend would come pick her up on his motorcycle and I thought how cool is that. I want that when I get older. She was unlucky that day. She would not breathe another breath. Nor would another family member of hers. I am not sure if it was her son or nephew but that family lost 2 members in one attack. To this day when I hear them read her name as well as his I break down as if I just found out.

Living in NY at the time, made me a different person. I always had pride in America but it became more. It was larger than life. My flag still rests proudly on my van. My flags still wave in front of my house.

I remember the first few weeks after the attack. A normal half hour trip to work would take 3 hours. I began driving with clothes in my trunk just in case. I would drive over the Verrazano Bridge and see the smoke still rising from the site. I say a little prayer each time I drove or drive over the bridge. The first few weeks, I would get panic attacks driving over it. I would think what if a plane hit the bridge during rush hour. Maximum damage. Finally, I got over it and life went on. But the scar is still there.

I have only gone to Ground Zero once and I do plan on taking my daughter. She needs to know what happened. She needs to know about all those people going about their normal everyday business and losing their lives, hopes and dreams in an instant.

Be proud of who you are. Don't forget to tell your loved ones.....family, friends...even ST friends how they affect you and how you feel about them. Life is too short for regrets.


EDIT: This is only from a NYers perspective.

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My friend Ben....took him over 12 hours to walk from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn that day. My friend Lynn took about 10. I give them all the credit in the world to have the composure to do that.

My Uncle Frankie is a now retired truck driver who was in NJ on that day. Because all the bridges were closed all around NY and NY became a no fly zone for planes, which was utterly eerie in itself, he had to sleep in his truck.

Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School Class of 86 lost one of her own that day. FDNY member Jeff Palazzo.

My cousin Phil became a member of the Army shortly after and when his time was up became a proud member of the FDNY. My friends brother Lou also became a proud member of the FDNY seeking a place in Lower Manhattan firehouse.
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thanks Reed :sadhug:
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I was sleeping when everything was going on, i woke up to watch TV before i went to work but all the New York chanels where out so i switched the chanel to CNN like i did every morning and saw what happened. I was in shock is all i can say.
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Thanks reed !! :sadhug:


I was back home enjoying a relaxing day, Madam was over here working.

The phone rang. Emily crying, babbling, incoherent. I managed to ger her calmed down, and she explained about a 'terrible accident' at the WTC - a plane hitting one of the towers, and exploding.

Naturally I was thinking of a small, light aircraft. But she said no, she thought it was a large passenger jet. I really couldn't imagine that happening, with all the modern aids that planes have, and the twin towers hardly disappeared into the background.

I turned on the tv, the news was on with 'unconfirmed reports' about it, and were trying to get through to their NY correspondant for more details. I was just explaining this to Emily, when she screamed again. The second plane had just hit.

The rest is history.

Fortunately, the office block that Emily works in is far enough away from the WTC not to be affected, and her office - that she used at that time, she has a new one now - gave her an excellent view of Lower Manhattan, so she could see pretty much everything as it happened.

Most of her co-workers on that floor had crowded into those offices that faced south, to see for themselves. Back home, the news was catching-up with events, and was showing still photos of the North Tower with smoke pouring out of it.

As you can imagine, Emily wasn't happy being in NY alone, and for the record neither was I. Took time, but I managed to catch one of the few flights going there, before they shut down the air-space, and as most of the passengers and aircrew already knew about what had happened, it was probably one of the worst flights I'd ever taken !!
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I can't remember, it was ages ago
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I'm 3 hours behind EST so it was later in the day for us. I had slept in and me and my oldest hadn't made it downstairs to where the tv was yet. My husband called and told me 4 planes had been hijacked and 2 had crashed into the world trade center, on at the pentagon, and one in a field.

my very first thought was 4? and they all crashed? what a coincidence! :lol:
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I thought it was a small plane that veered off course or something like that
Everybody thought that. Only two sources of video of the 1st plane assault, because no one was expecting it & all the reports were much like all word of mouth, incomplete & unreliable, & there really was only enough time for anyone to get word & think "Woah, some idiot amateur pilot accidentally smashed into the WTC". 18 minutes before everyone knew for sure it was terrorists, unless you were on site. A number of media sources were filming the 2nd assault, where it became obvious to everyone, which is why it was orchestrated thusly, that & to optimize fatalities, by waiting until 1st responders were on the scene attempting rescue
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The whole city became polite
Amazing how that happens isn't it? A city with world wide renown for having the rudest, most jaded & indifferent people on the planet, & yet, not at a time like that. Everybody's bullshit little problems become meaningless in the wake of something like that

I was at home having just finished an overnight shift at the hospital. I picked up some groceries, & got home about 8:30AM. Had the next couple nights off. So, I was kind of just hanging about the apartment, Getting reports on tv. I don't think I stopped watching that tv for a minute that entire time until I had to go back to work a couple days later. All the buildings falling, wondering what other cities could potentially be attacked
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I remember not long after a bogus threat on the Sears Tower and they evacuated naturally.

I was at a bank and I stayed there 5 years after 9/11. We would have bomb threat drills and things like that. The previous 13 years we never had to worry about such things.

God forbid anyone left a bag of groceries! But it had to be that way, banks and school buses and schools are "soft targets"
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Live long and prosper.....!!

There was some kinda talk about an attack on Canary Wharf in London, which I hoped wasn't true cos my next contract was gonna be in there !!

Fortunately, nothing happened. Until the 7/7 attacks brought devastation to London, especially on the underground (subway) !!
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It's horrible that free nations or nations that interact with others on a friendly basis have to worry about things like that.

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It was about 0530 and I had just dropped my wife off at her ship. As I was leaving base, I turned on the radio and thought there was some kind of weird beer commercial on because the news reporter kept talking about a beer delivery guy staring up at the sky.

When I got home I received a call telling me we were going to war and to be ready to leave in 48 to 72 hours. I didn't see my wife again for another two weeks after that, and then only for a short time.

BTW:

Did anyone hear that the US Consulate in Libya was stormed (after Cairo yesterday) and the Ambassador and others were murdered? The body was dragged out into the streets in celebration.

Because an "Israeli-Jew" made a movie about Muhammad in California.

These are the same people that begged for our help in their civil war and we threw in with them last summer.
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I heard about that.

It's horrible that they have such a low regard for a human beings body. Low regard for human life.

It's horrible that the US has to run to everyone's rescue but we get a slap in the face from the same countries and yet we still help them. Sometimes you gotta say NO
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BTW:

Did anyone hear that the US Consulate in Libya was stormed (after Cairo yesterday) and the Ambassador and others were murdered? The body was dragged out into the streets in celebration.

Because an "Israeli-Jew" made a movie about Muhammad in California.

These are the same people that begged for our help in their civil war and we threw in with them last summer.
It looks like it was an Al-Qaeda operation rather than a spontaneous act of mob violence. The irony is that AQ had little or no presence in Libya under Gaddafi. This is what happens when the existing order collapses without a plan B in place!
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is it just me or does the muslim world need to learn to not take things so personal. even if someone makes a comic or movie about their god like figure is no reason to kill people in an act of irational hatred. and these are the same people that want to be seen as peacful and civilised. peaceful and civilised people do not storm embassy's and murder inocent people that had nothing to do with anything in cold blood. it's acts like this that make people in the western world see muslims as uncivilised savages.
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:yes: Agreed !!

Don't need western interference, they give themselves a bad reputation !!
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is it just me or does the muslim world need to learn to not take things so personal. even if someone makes a comic or movie about their god like figure is no reason to kill people in an act of irational hatred. and these are the same people that want to be seen as peacful and civilised. peaceful and civilised people do not storm embassy's and murder inocent people that had nothing to do with anything in cold blood. it's acts like this that make people in the western world see muslims as uncivilised savages.
when someone does a movie about Jesus, people protest
& call for boycotts. that's the way to do it IMHO.
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Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:25 pm
is it just me or does the muslim world need to learn to not take things so personal. even if someone makes a comic or movie about their god like figure is no reason to kill people in an act of irational hatred. and these are the same people that want to be seen as peacful and civilised. peaceful and civilised people do not storm embassy's and murder inocent people that had nothing to do with anything in cold blood. it's acts like this that make people in the western world see muslims as uncivilised savages.
when someone does a movie about Jesus, people protest
& call for boycotts. that's the way to do it IMHO.
that's fine but you don't see people going out and killing innocent people in cold blood that had nothing to do with it, that's the work on uncivilised savages.
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On 9/11 I was at work in a sawmill. During our morning coffee break one of the fellows came over to the main mill from the planing mill, (it was quiet enough in there for them to have a radio.), and told us, "Some crazy a-hole flew a plane into a building in New York." We all shrugged more or less and made comments like, "That's New York, people there are crazy." It wasn't until I arrived home that I found out the scale of what had happened.
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Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:25 pm
is it just me or does the muslim world need to learn to not take things so personal. even if someone makes a comic or movie about their god like figure is no reason to kill people in an act of irational hatred. and these are the same people that want to be seen as peacful and civilised. peaceful and civilised people do not storm embassy's and murder inocent people that had nothing to do with anything in cold blood. it's acts like this that make people in the western world see muslims as uncivilised savages.
Islam is about 600 years younger than Christianity. You ever hear about what Christianity was like 600 years ago? Puritans, Inquisitions, witch hunts, torturous mass murder. Now they call themselves fundamentalists in a Jihad. WTF is the difference? imho, it's just their turn at bat, to be batshit crazy about who's on God's good side

My perspective is that if you give any religion long enough to become a global force, there will be blood in its name. For all I know... 2000 years from now, people will be killing in L. Ron Hubbard's fucking name. Seems incredibly unlikely, but who's to say? Those people are only a half century or so into it, & are already whackjob zealots

You don't even need a global religion to make people do crazy shit. Little cults can even manage that crap
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