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Old 09-10-2011, 04:31 PM
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So, Where Were You on 9-11-2001?

Impossible to 'look over', or ignore, with the media, and our human emotions and memories...just curious 'where you were' and how it unfolded for you. And, any thoughts on that catastrophic day, a decade later.

I'll start: we were in a flea bag local motel here in Waynesville, NC on one of our many trips down here, to kick the builder in the azz, that was taking 18 months to build our house. We had a mover scheduled for the end of Sept, to haul our junque from our NY house, and the fookin new house had to have a CO and, be done, by eom.

We had spent all day Friday, Sat, Sun, & Monday, wallpapering rooms in the western NC ourselves...so we slept in, and were sitting there in the motel watching CNBC, wasting time and about to head over to our house in progress. We saw the first plane, and I said "Wow, what a crazy accident"...mins later we saw the 2nd plane and we both said, "that's not 2 accidents". The shit has hit the fan, as Zevon sang.

Fwiw, later that day, and over the next few days, the local hillbillies working on trying to finish our new house, were very sympathetic and supportive, as they knew we were moving from just outside NYC, and that both V & I had spent years in the City, working and biz entertaining.

We had separately, or together, been to the Windows on the World restaurant dozens of times for biz entertaining, and there were even a few printing industry customers of ours, with offices in WT 1 or WT2...

The amazing news was that of the 40 - 50 people we knew, that should have, could have, would have been in either WTC tower that day, were not there, for some reason or another. And, even though we have been back to the City several times in the decade since we migrated, we have never been down to the 'site'. Maybe, someday.

It just seems remarkable that a decade has passed...and, I am not sure I feel any 'better' or 'safer' about the situ, and I know I do feel less optimistic about 'our country' and the future for our kids/grand kids...
NEway, apology for the long post, but curious to read of others' remembrances & thoughts.
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Old 09-10-2011, 05:58 PM
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In class in either 1st or 2nd grade back when I still lived in Queens. I remember sitting down on the floor and them telling us what happened. We got sent home early that day and my parents and I just watched the news on updates.
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6th Avenue and 45th Street, I saw the second plane hit the tower.
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Old 09-10-2011, 11:29 PM
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I was out of work, laid up after suffering a serious car crash 3 weeks earlier. A friend from Atlanta called, and said, "Are you watching TV?" I said, "What channel?" She said, "It doesn't matter. Just turn it on." I was in pain and already felt like shit. When I turned on the TV, I quit worrying about my own pain, and cried for my countrymen.
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I was living in Dallas, laid off from my tech job. I woke up, turned on the tv at the moment the second plane hit the towers. I lived close to the flight approach to DFW. The one thing I noticed was how eerilly quiet the skies were the days following.
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In the car 30 miles way driving towards NYC and listening to radio, when first plane hit the tower. Was in a high rise building with clear view of the towers after the 2nd tower was hit. Witnessed the 1st tower come down with huge cloud of dust. The whole area was engulfed in dust cloud after 1st tower came down and could not see anything after that.
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Sitting in a meeting room in Vancouver. My family was all in the UK, where we lived at the time. Three of us had arrived a day early as the meeting organizers, and we were awaiting 12 more, all of whom were supposed to be en route. Nobody was hurt, but nobody else made the meeting, all the flights were turned around mid air. We undid the corporate blocks on streaming video (we had all the IT team there) and watched it all morning. There was a steady stream of diverted planes coming into YVR, and some excitement when a couple of them couldn't be identified over the radio, with fighters escorting them in.

YVR looked like a parking lot, planes everywhere.

Got home to the UK on the Friday via Heathrow, first flight out of YVR to the UK that week. I was back at Heathrow the next day to get my wife on a flight to Vancouver for a family emergency. Heathrow was like an armed camp, more so than when I had landed earlier. That made a strong impression, that it wasn't just in the US, but rather how far the effects went and how quickly.
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It's hard to believe that 10 years has passed. It seems like yesterday yet I have forgotten much of that day's more mundane things I did and distinctly, as if I am back in time, remember when I first heard. Being on the west coast, we were just starting our days when the events began. I remember I was getting ready for work, turning on the TV and walking around the house when I heard that the NYSE had closed for the day. That was the first thing I heard when the TV kicked on as I walked away. I wondered why the NYSE would be closed down already so I walked back into the room and looked at the TV to see the smoke from the first tower. I was beyond stunned.

As I stated before, I don't remember the rest of my day and can only think of being glued to the TV whenever I could and just feeling this overall sense of shock, horror, disbelief, confusion, anger, vengeance, sadness, patriotism - all rolled into one.

The only thing I remember so vividly finding out when I was told about a coworker who had murdered his family and killed himself. It wasn't a national tragedy but it hit very close to home and is just one of those things no one can forget.

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I was an intern @ VH1 and was located on the 47th floor at 44th and Broadway and witnessed the second plane hit. Walked down those 47th floors to complete mayhem. I literally walked/ran from 44th and Broadway uptown to Washington Heights. Remember that like it was yesterday.
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Old 09-11-2011, 02:07 PM
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Paul Simon Sings 'The Sound of Silence' at Ground Zero for 9/11 Anniversary on Sept.11 - Speakeasy - WSJ
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