Heard about the 1st plane on the radio driving into work,got to work and turned on the tv and saw the 2nd plane hit.
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Heard about the 1st plane on the radio driving into work,got to work and turned on the tv and saw the 2nd plane hit.
Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to Fight, he'll just kill you.
Walked into work, lady said "A plane has hit the WTC".
Huh?, ok?. I didn't think much about it. Figured it was a Cessna or something.
Couple of hours later they shut down most government agencies and we were sent home.
I stopped by a prominent firearms store on west colfax at that time, picked up a case of 7.62x39. Sat at home with the wife and kids (2 and 4) watching tv.
I remember those couple of days and looking up to the skies and there was zero air traffic. Nearly zero automotive traffic too.
In the middle of a break from marching band in college, saw the plane strike the second tower on the news broadcast... needless to say, the rest of rehearsal was cancelled.
I was at work at the ambulance service. We watched it until we had a call for a roll over. On scene with a couple critical patients, I called for flight for life. After calling multiple times, I was told all aircraft were grounded. The outcome was not good.
Senior year. 1st period, photography. We thought it was some joke w/ movie footage until the principal made an announcement and we were released for the day. Went to work (a small family owned Italian restaurant) and the two other guys near my age and I all agreed we'd join the military if the country went to war. I remember watching footage from the invasion of Afghanistan while washing dishes. Entered DEP program a few months after graduation.
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Eastbound on I-80 headed for Sioux Falls, SD listening to a LA radio show when they mentioned the the first tower was hit by a plane. I immediately thought act of terrorism but then said to myself, accidents like this have happened before. Then a little later the radio hosts said a second plane had hit the other tower and we all knew that we had been attacked and by whom.
When I stopped for gas in North Platte, everyone was in shock and pretty angry. When I arrived in Sioux Falls I went to get some supper before heading to my hotel and the mood in the restaurant was WWIII and we were going to kill them all.
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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?A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment, and is designed for the special use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics.?
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Yup. Still very angry. Think about it all the time.Originally Posted by wctriumph
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I was here at work and we had an old TV here that got turned on shortly after the news of the first plane hitting. We were all glued to the TV when the second one hit. It's darn near the only event in history that I know where I was and what I was doing. Each time I see it replayed on TV it hits me in my gut.
Laws aren't "preventable" measures. IOW, more gun laws won't stop mass shootings.
I was in 5th grade and we were in gym class or something and I had to go back to my teacher's room to get something and he had it on the TV.
Just call me 47
I was a Army 1LT(P) getting ready to command and deploy a 100 man detachment to NTC on the 13th. I had skipped PT, coming straight to the motor pool office to accomplish some desk work when my NCOIC came running up the stairs- "Sir! Sir! Turn on the radio!". The rest of the day is a blur, with kicking out all civilian contractors, putting up concertina wire around the battalion HQ, drawing weapons, stopping all shipments outside the fence and trying to get updates from Yahoo news and CNN.com. Two things that stick out were the crispness of the salutes from the junior enlisted, who knew it was not a game anymore, and seeing an M1 parked at one of the main post gates, .50 cal locked and loaded / live 120 mm on board, with a sector of fire right into the twin rows of paws shops, liquor stores, adult video, payday loans, dry cleaners, and army surplus shops just outside the fence.
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