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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:42 am:

Significant memories for me include 9/11 ....

I was in Scottsdale, AZ doing a electrical service change on a house listening to the radio ....

When the first plane hit - I was stunned.

When the second plane hit the second tower - i knew we were at war ....




Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:43 am:

I was in Cincinnati about to ride a charter jet to JFK to pick up passengers for a trip to Peru. The trip was cancelled, as no one wanted to fly for a while........


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Kelsey on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:46 am:

Driving to work in Tumwater


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:56 am:

I was at work in Davis, CA. When I heard that the first tower "collapsed" I thought it meant something much less catastrophic. When I saw the video on TV I couldn't believe something like that could happen. Then the second one went and all the other things started to come together.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jerry VanOoteghem on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:12 am:

I was at work. A fellow worker told me a plane just hit the World Trade Center. I figured it was a Cessna or some other small plane, thinking a large aircraft would never be so far off course to do such a thing. When I heard a second plane hit the second tower it made my blood run cold.

May God bless all the poor souls who lost their lives 13 years ago today.

God bless America.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:24 am:

I had just started school at the local technical college a couple weeks earlier. That morning I overslept, and was listening to the radio on the way in to school late. When I got to class, nobody else had heard yet.

I was scared as hell being an 18yo male at the time knowing war was on the horizon. I had lots of mixed feelings with fear of being drafted into service, and considering joining up on my own.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:31 am:

We were at Branson Mo. for a week in a time share to enjoy the shows and the surroundings. That morning I was watching the TV news while she was getting ready to go to breakfast. The program was interrupted to bring the announcement the first tower was struck by an airliner. I thought, "what a terrible accident", when I saw the second plane hit the other tower. I immediately thought, "This is another Pearl Harbor". Then we went to breakfast and someone came in the restaurant and said, "A plane just crashed into the Pentegon". That morning we passed a gas station with very low prices and I decided that afternoon I would go there to fill the gas tank. When afternoon came the price had risen about 10c and cars were lined up. The rumor was that the oil refineries had been bombed and the only gas left was in the gas stations. One pickup had the entire bed full of gas cans! Next day, the prices were back down and no one was in the gas stations! Everyone had a full tank!

We spent the rest of the week wondering how we would get home. All the airports were closed. Saturday was the day we had reservations to fly home and fortunately for us that was the day the airports opened. When we landed in San Diego, the passengers applauded.
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Fischer on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:36 am:

My wife and I were on an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Dallas, ultimately headed home to California. About half way through the flight I felt the engines come to idle and the nose go down. As a pilot myself, I knew we were nowhere near Dallas.

After a few minutes the PA came on and said something to the effect that there had been an emergency in the air traffic control system and we were landing immediately at Tulsa. My wife noticed that none of the cabin crew were visible. We later learned that they had locked themselves in the lavatories.

At Tulsa there were planes parked everywhere. Twenty-two airliners made unscheduled landings that day. We didn't find out what was happening until I was wandering around the terminal, looking for an AA rep. All the gates were deserted of personnel. Kind of like twilight zone. Found a huge crowd in one of the lounges watching TV. I asked a guy what was going on and he told me.

It was a long two day trip back to California via fully loaded Greyhound bus.

Dick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Shawn Hayward on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:46 am:

I was in a town called Embrun near Ottawa , doing Electrical service work at a GM dealer
We ran up to their lunch room and watched it on TV
tragic day , will always remember it


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Burger in Spokane on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:51 am:

I was watching CNN and the announcers finally got something real to talk about. I said to my wife "This is going to have profound complications on our Constitutional rights. The rest is history. I spent 3 years in AFG causing mayhem for a foreign insurgency. Only 1-in-10 fighters we killed or captured was afghan.

As we see today in Iraq, this is a very complex subject and much of it stems from our own "interests" stepping on other cultures all over the world for the past 150 years. One really needs to understand the Ottoman Empire and WW1 history to grasp what we are looking at today. Don't be sucked in by our media and all the sloganeering we are fed. Learn, read, think for yourself. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 12:08 pm:

I was at home with two of our children. I had worked over night. One was home sick the other didn't have school that day. My wife had taken the other one to school and had the radio on in the car. She had heard that the first plane had hit. She called me to say what had happened and I should turn the TV on. I did and saw the second plane hit the tower on live TV. The rest of the day is a blur.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis-SE Georgia on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 12:16 pm:

I was at work and a co-worker listening to the radio told me about the first plane. Like Jerry, I thought it was a small plane flying off course in bad weather or something. When the news of the second plane came, I knew it was intentional. I was utterly shocked when the first building came down. I had just assumed they would put out the fire and make repairs. I couldn't believe it actually collapsed. My oldest son was in high school and was in Jr. ROTC. He was in uniform that day. The school called and said we had to bring him some civilian clothes. They had no idea how widespread it was and were concerned that kids in uniform could be targets. He later joined the Marines and fought these !@#$%^&* in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rion Schulze on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 12:23 pm:

Working 2nd shift at Amana Refrigeration. I was watching the news that morning at home as the first tower was burning. As they spoke of the incident, a plane from the left of the screen plowed into the other tower. Utter dismay. Didn't know what to think. I work now as a career firefigher/paramedic. We don't live in the same world/society now as we did then.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Zachary Dillinger on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:05 pm:

Walking from my 8:00am freshman math class at Michigan State University into the food court for coffee. I can still see the televisions in the communal area showing the plane hitting, and I remember a group of three guys laughing because they were sure it was fake.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:10 pm:

I was 5 hours from home at our plant in Arkansas. After the first plane hit, we turned on the tv in the lobby just in time to see the 2nd one hit. I was supposed to drive up to St. Louis & fly to detroit later that day, but since that wasn't going to happen, wound up spending an extra day at the plant. I was lucky enough to extend my stay at the hotel & had a company car in which to get home. The poor guys who were in rental cars were in a jam, as none of the rental agencies would extend their turn in times.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charlie B actually in Toms River N.J. on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:16 pm:

Was working at the Fort Monmouth Golf Course as a mechanic. Honestly when I heard the first plane hit my thoughts were, as mentioned, a small plane with some nut going sight seeing. After the second hit and the towers fell you could see the column of smoke on the horizon from behind the garage. Bob Sheafer, in closing his broadcast last Sunday said: "I've seen this twice. (referring to Pearl Harbor), Have we learned any thing"? Here we are 13 years later in exactly the same place we were then.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kenneth W DeLong on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:26 pm:

You beat me to saying watching history repeat itself! Bud.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Aldrich Orting Wa on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:31 pm:

I was a student in college and was wondering if I would be "recalled" since I had retired from the military only 4 years earlier


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Z , Candlewood Lake, CT on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:31 pm:

I was living on the north shore of Long Island in Manhasset waiting for the Sub Zero repair man, when my wife who was on her way to her office called and told me to turn on the TV because a plane had hit one of the towers and she could see it burning. Thinking it was a small private plane I watched in disbelief to see the second plane hit real-time. I drove up to Northern Blvd. which has a view of the city skyline and saw the towers burning. As I drove back home I was listening to a NYC news radio station as they were talking to a woman who lived near the towers and was describing what she could see when she started screaming that a tower was collapsing. We lost many people from our town and some parishioners from our church. As I write this I'm feeling many emotions surfacing and tears welling. I will never forget.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brian Sullivan, Powell WY on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:35 pm:

Working in a software support center for a company that makes package shipping software for retail stores 1) I was stunned that folks kept calling in - even as towers fell - with software issues, completely unaware of what was going on 2) worse yet, customers that said "yeah I know.. but help me with this.. 3) Slammed with customers a couple hours later when all UPS and FedEx air package shipments were grounded mid transit. Still baffled that people cared about such minor issues in the context of what was happening.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mack Cole ---- Earth on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 01:41 pm:

It was just another day on the job for me and my helper on the sign truck until wsoc interrupted the music to report a plane had hit the trade center.We then tuned to Wbt Am 1110 that is just a news station for more info. We pulled in a gas station and got cold drinks and I watched the first tower collapse on live tv at the cash register. After that, the rest of the day was spent wondering who attacked us,why, and how it would affect our lives.
From the looks of things, most have apparently forgot or dont care much anymore.
I will never forget is how quite it was outside in the afternoons when the planes were all grounded. And I remember very well the first plane I saw when it all was back in order.
Weird wondering if someone else would be trying the same thing in other places.
I saw a few flags at half staff when I went to town and that was it.
To answer Bob Sheafer,no I dont think as a country we have not learned a dang thing.Anyone who has, is considered politically incorrect


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By James Baker on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 02:05 pm:

I was in the United States Marine Corps stationed at New River Air Station in Jacksonville, NC. My MOS was Cryogenics and I was filling nitrogen cylinders on the flight line for my CH53 helicopter unit. A fellow Marine which happen to also be my barracks roommate came running out of the hanger and told me a plane hit a building in NY. I shut the machine down and ran inside the hanger where everyone was sitting and standing around a little beat up radio, you could hear a pin drop which is rare for 20 Marines in a room. Then the second plane hit, from that moment on I knew my life would be changed forever. I will never forget!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 02:29 pm:

At work in N. Billerica - a bit north of Boston.
One of the guys got a call from his wife about something big going on in NY.

We gathered around a small TV in the engineering department to see the second plane hit the tower and learned that other airplanes were not responding.
Then we got the news about the Pentagon and the plane traveling west across PA.
Finally we heard that all aircraft were being told to immediately land.


When we learned that the planes came from Boston there was a big rush to figure out if any of our people were on them. - There were none from our company.

Like many I had am empty feeling in the pit of my stomach and knew that live had just changed.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Perigo - Linton, IN on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 03:40 pm:

We were giving the Indiana statewide graduation exam. Although the Dept of Ed said we could halt the test, we decided to go on since everyone taking the exam knew nothing of what had happened until after finishing for the day.

That was before all students had cell phones with them and no TV's on in the testing rooms. Ur was easier to insulate students then from the world outside.

My wife and a friend were going to a conference in Indy. They were passing the airport immediately after the attack and saw airplanes dropping out if the sky like crazy.

More people were killed than at Pearl Harbor. Still a year went by before the administration actually did anything. Good thing FDR had sense enough to react instantly, or else we'd be speaking Japanese! Good ole Harry T should be here now! ISIS who?
Mike


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dewey, N. California on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 03:56 pm:

9/11 was our 25th anniversary, so we were sleeping in, but the clock radio went off as usual, so was listening when they mentioned a plane had struck one of the towers. I too thought, 'What's a Cessna doing flying that low around those towers?" I got up to see if there was any TV coverage, and that's when I realized it was a large plane, and then the second plane hit. I still remember the talking head wondering if this was on purpose or an amazing co-incidence--sometimes those guy's haven't a clue!
Of course, at the time all we thought about was the people stuck above the fire and how were they going to put out the fires. When the first tower started collapsing, I immediately realized the pancake effect of the structure failing on one floor and impacting the second floor. (this is how buildings are imploded too--I still wonder if the terrorists realized that effect when the flew into the towers). I am still amazed at how evenly they came down considering the somewhat random structural damage the planes did.
As it was our 25th, and by that afternoon things seemed to be a bit "normal" (hey, we're way out here in CA) we did go out to dinner, but the menus were very limited, as few delivery trucks were even running, and there were few people out. It wasn't much of a celebration, and it wasn't much for a few years afterwards; the anniversary date was pretty somber.
Unfortunately the US public has a short memory span, and it will take another big attack to wake up the current crop of young adults.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Charles Linsenbarth on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 04:18 pm:

When ever I think of the Twin Towers in NYC, by the way my home town, what always comes to my mind first is the Murrah Federal Building Bombing in OKC.
The day started like most days around here, insurance adjusters coming and going, people dropping off cars, just a normal day. I was standing behind my desk having just finished with an adjuster. There where five people in my office and we have a glass front door and a large bay window so you can see the work going on in the shop. The weather was beautiful and sunny, not a cloud in the sky and all of a sudden it was like someone had struck an arc welder in a dark room a blast of electric blue light filled the room that only lasted for a second and then the loudest explosion noise or any other sound I had ever heard, then the impact wave hit almost ripping off the overhead door in the front of the shop, the glass office door was blown open and it almost blew the bay windows out, Everyone ran outside, thinking the building next to us had exploded, (they stored large drums of chemicals) and they ran over here thinking the paint shop had blown up. About that time you could see a mushroom cloud rising up in the distance which made me think an atomic bomb must have went off at Tinker Air Force Base.
My shop is 6.5 to 7.0 miles North of the Murrah Building at the crest of the valley that downtown OKC lies in. A friend of mines grandparents laying in their bed a mile from the Murrah building where killed laying in their bed, from parts of the truck and at my wife's office a mile to the west, pigeons where blown out of the sky and killed from the blast hundreds of them laid just every where.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 05:31 pm:

Charles,

I delivered a riding mower to a gentlemen outside OKC who was working at his desk when that terrible day came.

All those years later, he still had fragments of glass coming out of his back that shredded and bloodied his business shirts from time to time.

I visited the Flight 93 National Memorial right after it opened on a weekday and I just stood there & cried.

I also visited the OKC Memorial at dusk and got very emotional.

There are no words - if they are then they escape me ... :-(



Jim


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Woods, Richmond, Texas on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 05:57 pm:

I was in a bed in the Methodist Hospital in Houston, awaiting a heart catheterization, later that morning. I awoke and turned on the TV, only a minute before the first plane struck and stayed glued to the TV throughout the rest of the ordeal. Then they came and took me for the procedure.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Claverie on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 06:13 pm:

My wife and I were watching "Regis & Kathie Lee." They often had a cameraman outside, showing the crowds, the passers-by, and how the seasons affected a little tree outside the studio.

When word came in of the first plane hit, Regis assumed like everyone else that it was a small plane off-course. But they switched to the outside camera, which happened to have a clear view of the towers.

Then the second plane hit. Not more than 15 seconds later, the news departments took over all broadcasting, and we just sat and watched for hours -- stunned.

Later, we learned that my wife's cousin lived in an apartment building right next door to the towers. He and his wife were a little late getting ready to go to work, and they actually saw the first plane hit, from their bedroom window. They then went into the Living Room, which had a big picture window, and saw the second plane hit.

Fearing fire, they knew they had to get out of their building, and fast. The elevators had been shut off (actually all the power was off), so they ran down the stairs in the dark and out the entrance, which faced away from the towers.

Just as they got to the end of their block, the first tower collapsed. The enormous dust cloud engulfed them, and they couldn't really see. But they knew which way to go, which was North, and started running. They ran all the way to Central Park, to her mother's apartment overlooking the park. They ended up living there with her for over a year.

As they worked it out, it was this close: If they had left for work at their normal time, they would probably have been in the subway station beneath the towers when they collapsed, never to be heard from again.

We also have a Goddaughter who lived in New York. She had gotten a new job at one of the investment firms in the tower. She was due to report for work that morning. She lived in Brooklyn, and had vastly under-estimated the time it would take her to get there. Had she been on time, she would have been lost as well. She's suffered PTSD since, and can be counted as a casualty of the day.

And, yes, the public has largely forgotten. Not the event, but the resolve we had right after it, to avenge the horror of it. We lack the leadership, and have pretty much lost the resolve.

Can we get it back? I hope so, for the sake of my grandchildren!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Karl Gilchrist on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 07:33 pm:

I was at home in New Zealand I woke up in the morning and turned the TV on in the bedroom (something I never do in the morning) at first I thought I was watching some movie but then I realised this was live. Then I saw that people where jumping- even though the media didn't comment about it you could see that was what was happening . I sat there mute with tears in my eyes until my wife found me 20 minutes later. I cannot work out how people can be so cruel to their fellow human beings in the name of (any) religion. I have many Muslim friends who are just as horrified by this as I am. From the other side of the world even after 13 years I share your pain at this gross attack against all humanity and I will never forget 911-Karl


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Wrenn on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 07:36 pm:

I was on my new boat at a local marina getting the 60hr. valve lash checked/adjusted plus some warranty work done. The office lady got on the marina PA and announced what had just happened with the first tower. By the time I got the little portable B/W TV out in the pilothouse and set up, no more than 5 mins. later the 2nd. plane hit. Remember it like yesterday. And I swear, the plane that was hijacked to PA turned right near us, as its path was very nearby. It was super low too. God bless those who perished and give comfort to those surviving families and friends. I still get choked up when seeing the memorial water falls in the footprint of the towers.

The boat is gone now, but the vivid memories will remain forever.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis-SE Georgia on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 07:56 pm:

I'm afraid we will not get our resolve back until it happens again. And it will, I'm afraid.

I did not mention emotions in my earlier post. A month after 9-11, we were returning from Hershey. We had taken a detour through DC and found ourselves passing the Pentagon. The damage was very visible as was the discoloration from the flames. I could not fight the tears. Then the next year (I think), we went to the Smithsonian on he way home from Hershey. They had many 9-11 artifacts on display. I remember there were several cameras, all beaten up, scratched, dented. You knew that they had belonged to the victims. Again, could not fight back the tears. I wasn't the only one, either.

Americans today don't have the stomach to do what needs to be done. Our media is in control of what we think. Most of our media tells most of us that we need to not do what needs to be done. And so, we don't.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Coco on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 08:21 pm:

in a meeting, assistant sticks her head in the door and says very important call...my wife, telling me one of my daughters (a flight attendant based in Boston) wasn't on the plane that hit the first tower...What? Had no idea what she was talking about, and unbelievable......remember no contrails in the sky for a few days (we're on approach to Dulles Washington), and remember how nice everyone was to each other for those few days, both driving and in person....but sadly, that went away...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mack Cole ---- Earth on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 08:47 pm:

Remember all the flags that were waving on cars after 9-11?
I picked up alot of them on the roadside a few weeks later and still have some of them.
It is a crying shame it would take another event like that to bring back that patriotism.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 08:59 pm:

Working at aol.. Maam are you near New York? Yes then the reason your AIM account is down is we have been attacked by terrorist. I answered calls like this all morning and had to explain why the whole N.E corridor was "Dark" and how do you answer the question Why havent they activated the Emergency Broadcast System?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 09:05 pm:

I was sitting at the computer doing my morning catching up on everything (which means I may well have been reading this forum). Anja was in the living room watching television and called me in to look at the news. We all know the rest.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Coco on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 09:17 pm:

in a meeting, assistant sticks her head in the door and says very important call...my wife, telling me one of my daughters (a flight attendant based in Boston) wasn't on the plane that hit the first tower...What? Had no idea what she was talking about, and unbelievable......remember no contrails in the sky for a few days (we're on approach to Dulles Washington), and remember how nice everyone was to each other for those few days, both driving and in person....but sadly, that went away...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Timothy Kelly on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 09:54 pm:

I was working in my office in New York City. Soon after the first plane hit my office filled with colleagues and we watched the events unfold. We each knew that we knew people in the Twin Towers and were wondering if they were OK. Not much was said until the first building collapsed, and then everyone gasped and comments such as "my brother works there and I ......." started flying.

Sadly a few of my partners in my firm were on one of the planes. People my wife and I knew from our small town in Connecticut were also among the victims.

The commuter trains started running again that afternoon (when I don't recall), only outbound, and I caught one home early evening.

All night long I heard fighter planes flying fast and low.

The next day New York City was like a ghost town or an empty movie set. Nothing was moving.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jerome Hoffman, Hays KS on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:14 pm:

I'm 54, so I don't remember JFK. My first "big" thing was when the space shuttle blew up. I had just gotten out of class and ran in to a friends little brother. In the middle of campus I found out about it, went home put a tape in the VCR and watched for a wile till I went to bed( i was working nights). When I got up turned the TV on and it was still going strong. Later at work driving my route I was glued to Larry King and could not tell you haw many times I cried.

9/11
Was a Tuesday and I had the day off as I was to work that Saturday. I was renting an apartment a full block from the office and half way further down the block was the gym I worked out at. Watching the news wile on the treadmill, news was normal. I left to walk home at 7:45cst. When I got home and turned on the TV the news was lit up about a possible explosion/plane hitting the first tower. My new bride still living in Mich. was at work and so I called her. Getting a jump on her work first thing in the am she did not yet have the radio on and so I told her. A few minutes later still on the phone with her I watched the second plain hit, so I told her right then it was no accident and that we had been attacked. The rest of the day was watching the news and feeling numb.

I have been a member of the local American Legion as a Son's member and the American Legion Riders from 2005. In August of 2011 I was at one funeral for a local man who was killed in action serving this great nation. What makes this different for us here is in this town if 20K is that two men on that chopper grew up and graduated from HS here(both career men and younger then me) is that we had over 500 bikers here to hold flags. There was of course the most from western Kansas, followed by the areas to the east and south, but as many as a dozen and a half came more than a thousand miles to ride with us. Next Tuesday is our Monthly meeting and we open each meeting with a payer for this country and it's service men and women both active and retired. This we do right after we say the Pledge of Allegiance. We also close the meeting with a prayer.

As I was typing this the news came on, ran down some of the events today and the one thing that got me was a 20something who could not have been more than 7/8 years old said that today was not a sad day but a day about a sad event. BS it's a sad day because the problem that caused this is now worse because of inaction.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:21 pm:

I was updating my website and listening to Morning Edition when Bob Edwards reported the first plane hitting. I turned on the TV and saw the second plane hit. Something I never understood was that in long shots of the area it seemed that smoke was rising from buildings for several blocks around the Trade Center. It must have been dust blown out by the collapsing towers. I was in Dallas the following weekend, and the absence of the usual air traffic from DFW seemed very strange.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By steve miller- mississauga,ontario on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:23 pm:

I was being prepped for surgery at Mississauga Hospital. Within 15 minutes all procedures were cancelled and the hospital went into emergency readiness to receive casualties from NYC almost 500 miles away. Sadly none arrived


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Coiro on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:33 pm:

I had just dropped my daughter off at school and was heading back to the house when I heard the news on the car radio that an airplane had hit one of the WTC towers. -I figured some dunce in a Cessna had really screwed up. -When I got home and snapped on the television, I saw the size of the hole in the building and knew it had to have been a heavy aircraft. -As the news commentator was describing the live scene, I watched as a second airliner struck the other tower.

Between the two hits on the WTC and the single at the Pentagon, and another in a field somewhere in Pennsylvania, I figured this might continue from coast to coast and, not knowing what else to do, drove to the school, which, being a public building, might be a target and brought my daughter home. -Shortly afterward, the first building collapsed. Then, the second.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mike dixon on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:39 pm:

I was in new york a week after the incident, driving a white box truck, i was giving a seminar in Newark, cops stopped me so many times, finally i just left the back door open. oh, the towers were still smoking.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chester W. Lowery TN on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 10:55 pm:

I was working as a shift operator at Old Hickory Power Plant when my wife called and said to turn on the TV. As I did the second plane hit and I was in shock and disbelief as to what was happening. In 2005/2006 I was sent to Iraq "Haditha Power Plant to support the 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment 1st Marine Division where they set up "Kilo" company Headquarters. I only say this because I am reminded of all the men and women that ended up so involved and gave so much then and even to this day.....The same as so many of you on the forum have done when called upon...Thank You....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Schedler, Sacramento on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:33 pm:

I was in still in bed listening to the radio (KFBK) so I turned on the TV and watched the second airliner hit and then saw the towers crumble.

The state of our county is such that if they want to hit us again they have a wide open shot.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:40 pm:

I had just come out of the ER into the patient lounge/ hospital entrance. An internist, Dr. P, was standing watching the television. I joined him and saw the first tower burning, and the replays of it being hit, along with speculation of it being an accident. Then we both watched as the second plane hit the second tower.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Karl Gilchrist on Thursday, September 11, 2014 - 11:47 pm:

Hal They may hit again and maybe even again after that but they will never win because inherently most of us a good. And when the good out number the bad then the bad can't ever win.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Clipner-Los Angeles on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 02:09 am:

Had just finished my first Hillbilly Tour w/dad and getting ready for a flight back to L.A. Got stuck in St.Louis for 4 days. Saw the second plane hit and just prior saw it in the background and said that it was odd for it to so close and out of the landing pattern area. Never saw my mom's eyes so big.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dare - Just a little South West . on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 02:43 am:

Watching the sad events on tv with 3/4 of the worlds population via CNN... with a broken shoulder.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Donnie Brown North Central Arkansas on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 04:32 am:

I was working at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, in Pine Bluff Arkansas. We were building the bomb burner to destroy all the BZ gas and nerve agent bombs. It is a high security site. One of the bombs will kill every living creature in a 40 mile radius. The bombs were stored in bunkers. Each bunker housed 1000 bombs. There were supposed to be over 1200 bunkers on site. You do the math on the amount of mass destruction. We learned later that the Pine Bluff Arsenal was #5 on the list of likely terrosist targets in the US. Within minutes of the towers being hit, all civilian personal were isolated to one holding area, within a couple hours, all of us were escorted, by armed solders, with tanks and machine gun nest already set up at every cross road leaving the site. It was 7 days before we returned to work. The new security screening caused us to lose about 1/2 of our workers. One good bit of news, is that it took 6 years to burn all the bombs, but they are all gone now. :-) :-) The second bit of good news is my son was in basic training during the bombing, he had to serve 18 months down town Bagdad, but he made it home OK. So please pray for all the ones that did not make it home ...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mike bartlett Oviedo,Fl on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 07:37 am:

I was in my office in Orlando,Fl. when a friend called me and told me to turn on the news.Coincidently, I was one of many plumbers who helped build the towers,I was on tower B,along with my now deceased dad.It was a fasinating job to be part of.My nephew,Brian Sweeney,NYFD,lost his life that day.Horrilble event as everyone knows.We all need to do our part so it won't happen again(ISIS)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Kable on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 08:14 am:

It was about 10.30 pm here in Australia, I was on the phone to Lang's talking to Trish ordering some parts.

The wife came out and told me a plane had hit the trade centre tower, my response was that it would be OK as a plane had hit the Empire State building in the 1930's and only made a hole in it.

While I watched the coverage the second plane hit and I thought of mentioning to Trish that she should turn on the TV as there was a problem, but I didn't think it was a good idea to alarm her.

I hung up went to be and awoke the next morning to find both tower had collapsed.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Skip Anderson on Friday, September 12, 2014 - 08:18 am:

I had just left a morning construction progress meeting and was walking to the site with my 2 general foremen when another worker walked up and told us about the 1st plane hitting the tower. What a sick feeling it was. The job-site came to a standstill and we all listened in disbelief as the events unfolded. The innocent victims and the heroes of that day will always be remembered. Our military heroes that preserve our freedom, a big thank you. God bless you all.


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