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I remember exactly where I was when the towers came down, and how hard we worked to get the range ready for the soldiers and marines that would be using it in the future. God Bless you and the Men and Women still on the line.

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I was living in the heart of the city of San Francisco and the children at my child’s elementary school were sent home. My daughter, then age 7, ran behind the couch and said “we have to hide from the bad people”. To this day it breaks my heart. Children should not have to know such fear. Adults can try to rationalize, but oh the children.

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My memory of that day is a bit odd. I was caddying for a friend in an MGA golf tournament. Phones aren’t allowed, and since we happened to be furthest from the clubhouse we didn’t hear anything for hours.
We were walking through a path in the woods when we happened upon an MGA official who was sitting at a wooden table hitting it with a a hammer type staple gun, like a robot. As we passed he just said, “the twin towers collapsed.” Me and my friend made the cuckoo eyes at each other as we headed for the next tee. We were about 30 feet away when he yelled, “it was terrorism.”
We don’t know why, but instantly we believed him. It just quickly made sense, like a director quickly focusing a lens. I took out the cell phone I secreted in the bag and I was getting the weird tones that tell you all circuits are busy. My friend was pressing the guy for more info. He just said, “planes intentionally flew into the buildings and the buildings collapsed.”
I thought they both collapsed immediately. I figured 100,000 people to be dead. It was like a bad dream. We had no phone connection to the real world. Everything was absolutely silent.
You felt helpless. Coming down the fairway we happened to see a friend that we knew from our home course. We asked him about the towers. He didn’t hear a thing. He said it was bullsh*t. I told him I couldn’t get a signal on the cell phone. He took out his (everyone breaks that rule) and had no signal. Some other golfers came over to see what was the matter. Here we were, a group of strangers stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to confirm a horrible rumor. The majority of the players said that we should just keep playing, if anything serious was going on the MGA would come out to get us. We had no idea that they were all at the clubhouse not really thinking about us out there.
Finally I got through to my wife. The first thing she said was “we are at war.” It was jaw dropping. She confirmed that the twin towers were down and that the pentagon was hit and (at the time they were reporting this) the Sears tower was hit and planes all over the country were hijacked. She said we were at war and that we were losing. I swear, I looked to the skies looking for enemy planes. I really didn’t know what country it could be. When the rumors were separated from reality, that it was Middle Eastern madmen, we got in the car and headed home. It still didn’t seem real until we saw the black smoke rising in the distance, a hole in the skyline where the towers once were.

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Read http://twitter.com/allahpundit go back a few tweets and read accounting of 9/11.

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Thanks for sharing that BFH

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I’m heading to Washington DC this morning to the 9-12 protest. I will write more when I get a chance.
Brief memory:
I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. My girlfriend at the time was in lower Manhattan – blocks away from the Trade Center. She called me on her cell phone quite upset thinking she was not going to survive. When the buildings collapsed it blew out some of the windows in the building she was in. I tried to drive into the city but was stopped on the West Side Highway toll plaza and turned away. I vividly remember a woman in a wheelchair in the middle of the street becoming hysterical when we heard a low flying plane buzz over us. It was loud and fast. She thought it was another attack. I yelled to her “It’s OK, it’s us.” It was a military jet flying up and down the Hudson river very low.
My girlfriend got out of the city. She survived with emotional scars. We went to a Hudson River pier and saw the stream of smoke blow westward.

That Saturday of that week I volunteered to help with the clean-up and rescue. I still have the boots and hard hat and a hand-made “Thank You” card written in crayon from a third-grader from a mid-west school. They were passed out to all the workers. I remember, with no airlines flying, the deafening silence that whole week only broken up by an occasional military jet.

Much more to write. Have to get ready for tomorrow’s trip.

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yeah, I live on the eastern approach to Hartsfield in Atlanta 25 miles out. The quiet afterwards could not be ignored.

I saw most everything on TV after the 2nd strike. I’ll never forget the people falling. They were jumping. And falling.

I have to stop. too hard.

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I was living in LA at the time. (I now live close to Reiuxcat) My son was only 18 months. Like every morning, we woke up and turned on Sesame Street while I made breakfast. The towers had already fallen by this time, but we had no idea. After about an hour, I went upstairs to get dressed to go my office. I called my parents (we were a real estate sales team) to find out if they were attending the office meeting that morning. My Mom said “No, I think we’ll just stay here and watch the TV” . “Watch TV?”, I said,” we are too busy for y’all to take the day off”. A few seconds of silence, then my mom said ” Uh, I don’t think there will much business today, anyway.” I was still clueless. “Mom, what the hell are you talking about- we have a 10am, 3pm and…” “Not today”, she interrupted, “not with the terror attacks”. “WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!”, “The twin towers in NY, they are gone, we are under attack”, she said quite calmly. There was probably only a couple of seconds of quiet, but it felt like an hour. It was difficult to process. She gave me the synopsis, and it hit me- Scott- (my brother in law’s best friend since elementary school) he worked in those towers. “Gotta go, Mom, all you later”. I screamed down to my husband, who must have thought I was in bathroom doing hallucinogenics, “We are under attack- the Twin Towers are gone- DUST… call your brother about Scott”. After turning the channel from cookie monster to news, my husband, a CT native, just wept. Never before or since, have I seen that look on his face. We tried to find Scott, but all circuits were busy for hours. At around 10 pm that night, we got the update on Scott… he was LATE for work. That saved his life. Amazing. Scott, who was a wild teen and young adult, is now a Reverend who started his own church in southern CT.

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Angel of Grief

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I remember answering the phone to hear my sister-in-law crying and screaming, asking me where my husband (her brother) was. He had returned home early from a business trip to NYC and was safe at work here in MI. She told me to turn on the news.
I spent the rest of the day crying, knowing life as we knew it would never be the same.
I bow my head and say a prayer for all those who lost a loved one. I pray for those who were granted more time with their loved ones. For all the workers, friends and families who came together in a time of need I thank you.
I honor and pray for the men and women in uniform who work so hard to keep us safe.
God Bless.

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I was dropping my 1st grade daughter off at school when the first plane hit. Seemed unremarkable at the time because I thought it was an accident. When the second plane and the one at the Pentagon hit I was on my highway commute to work. I was stunned and shocked for most of that day. The realization that it was the work of islamo-terrorists combined with the images of my fellow Americans jumping from the towers to avoid the flames has kept me angry ever since. I still want justice.

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I was at work that morning, at the R&D Lab. Unusually, no one was traveling that week for plant support.

When the 1st plant hit, my office mate’s wife called to tell him. We figured an accident occured, as we were both familar with the accident several decades back when the Empire State building was hit. We were trying to find out info on the net but all the TV news sites were overwhelmed.

Then she called back and told him the other tower was hit and we were under attack. Someone starting digging out the old TV and getting it set up and I finally got on the NYT web site. After the TV was going, we watched. WTC2 fell, WTC1 fell.

We got a message from corporate office, a 52 story building, about 10:45 that they we sending everyone downtown home at noon. It would be voluntary for us. I left @11:00, to be with my family. Followed the coverage all day. I cannot remember any time before or since I have been filled with so much anger and sadness.

Now, it is just sadness.

When I think of my experience and my emotional pain and try to compare it to those who were there, witness, surviviors, and those that lost loved ones, thinking of all those brave NYPD fire fighters and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Shankesville, I just cannot think I could bear that pain. And realizing how hurt so many were and still are, saddens me now.

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I was home with my twin 5 year olds in WI. They remember 9-11 as “the time when I wouldn’t stop watching t.v.” I had just moved and the cable guys came right after the second tower was hit. They disconnected my t.v. and I had to listen on a little radio. I told them we were under attack and that the Pentagon had been hit. It was like they didn’t get it- they just kept working. It was a beautiful, sunny autumn day and my girls bikes were in the drive and the little shiny streamers were sparkling from the handlebars. I couldn’t stop thinking that there would be children on those planes. I think the feeling I remember most is one of despair. Those people, the children….

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A close friend from art school worked in NY and caught his train under the towers a half hour before the planes hit. My husband’s brother was out having a smoke outside (layover) at an airport with a distant view of NYC (somewhere in NJ) and saw the 2nd plane hit the tower. My family, Ohioans who rarely travel, were all out of town when 9/11 happened. My Mom’s brother and cousins were on a long planned trip to Europe, my cousin was in Mexico and my parents were with me. We watched everything on TV in shock. They were scheduled to fly back to Ohio a week and a half after. I remember standing outside at night talking to hubby about driving my folks cross country instead of flying-and not hearing any planes headed for SeaTac. It was just so quiet. My Dad, confident that the USA would do the right thing, felt that flying would be ok for 2 reasons. He didn’t think they would hit us again like that so soon and security would be super strict now. And- stiff upper lip and go on- because if not- then the terrorists win.

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I’m a high school teacher. News of the first plane hitting spread through the school like wildfire. I was on hall duty and went back to my room. The entire school was riveted to our TVs watching it unfold the rest of the day. Emotions were running very very high, to say the least.

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may God rest the souls of those who perished that day.

may God damn those jihadists who did/do those things.

may God keep us from ever having to go through another day like that.

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I was home alone as my wife and her cousin were on vacation up at Traverse City, MI. She was to have flown home later that day. It did not happen and I eventually had to drive the one thousand miles up there and bring her home.
I first heard of the first Tower being hit when my oldest daughter called and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I turned on the TV and about two minutes later the second plane hit the second Tower and I knew in less than a heartbeat we were under attack. It was a very surreal moment in time for me. I had some real crazy thoughts on who did this and what would be next. I am a Vietnam Vet and a little jumpy anyways so I immediately armed myself and got several other weapons ready and called a few other Vet buddies in the neighborhood. I know sounds kind of crazy but hell I or no one else had a clue as to what or who the enemy was and what was coming next.
I managed to watched the horror on playing out on TV and I have been deeply touched by the events of that day ever since. May we the American People never, ever forget that day. I also say we condemn all those who have the crazy effing idea that it was an inside job. It was no inside job but one planned and carried out by our greatest enemy in our history (with the exception of Barack Obama) the Islamo/Jihadist nutjobs.

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I am from Cali… and was only in high school when it happened.

My dad was on the road and called my mom. We watched on the TV… my sister was in Jr. High, so we did not wake her… she eventually came out… mind you… it was 5 in the morning our time.

My mom and I cried a lot. We yelled when the first tower fell. We shouted. We were scared. Angry. We prayed and prayed.

My uncle was supposed to be at the Pentagon that day. We never knew he had complained to my grandparents that someone had screwed up the orders and sent him to Virginia instead that day.

Then my Poppop went into the hospital and was there for another 3 or 4 weeks… yeah… our family was in a sort of panic. Patriarch in hospital and oldest brother of my mom in possible danger or dead and no way to get a hold of him or his family since they lived in North Carolina and all connections to back East were blocked with calls.

We instantly knew who had done it. We had a feeling this would happen soon. We knew we were at war.

We knew this was our Pearl Harbor.

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As we close out this somber day, we at iOTW would like to thank all those who shared their thoughts and memories with us. Even if you didn’t comment, thank you for reading the post and others comments Your stories were heartwrenching, moving and most important, needed to be told.
THANK YOU–Admin Girl

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Sacramento: my brother called to say that the Twin Towers had both been hit by planes, and to turn on the teevee. After watching for a few minutes, I phoned for a sub to take my HS English class, and watched for the rest of the day. Good thing the older kids were in school, and the baby was only 37 days old – they did not yet need to learn those words I was screaming as the jumpers made their grim choices, and then as the buildings collapsed.

The many days of empty skies that followed were a constant reminder.

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