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My 9-11 experience was a bit more LIVE than most, as I had the misery of seeing it all take place on tv, big screen all DAY long.

At first, it was just a "plane had hit one of the WTC towers". it was not thought of as a terrorist action, YET. The Tv was on CNBC, as it usually was in the morning, as the owner of the shop I was at liked to keep up on business and stocks.

I turned on my TV on my bench a bit later, and just as it came up, I saw the SECOND plane hit the other tower. By now-- ALL of us in the shop realized that it was NOT an accident. However, some newscaster (I don't recall who) was still suggesting an accident, saying "is their something wrong with the air traffic control systems, or something?"

By then, ALL of the news was going live to the events. Soon after, the pentagon was hit, and I said"man, if this keeps up, they will have to shut down all air traffic in this country. Soon after, they did, and flight 93 crashed. It was hard to do any work that day. that night, I saw gas go from about 1.49 a gallon, to over 2.00 a gallon, and gas lines down the streets at many stations that had not yet changed prices. Many stations ran out of gas. Cops were out ALL over, ready to roust anyone that did ANYTHING remotely suspicious that night. In Dayton, Wright Pat was on Lockdown, and several fighters screamed out from there that day, and created sonic booms in the area. For the rest of the week, all planes were grounded, stocks were dead, baseball suspended. It was hard to really gather my thoughts together to work the next day. The news continued live for several days.