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I was working in my office, in Greenwich, Connecticut (some 30 miles from ground zero) when I heard that a plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers - must have been within five minutes of it happening. I then fired up the news stations on the internet and watched the events unfold, including seeing the plane hitting the second tower live, and seeing the towers collapse. Nothing got done that day.

We all went home by midday, the kids were released early from school, and were very concerned that several of their friends had parents who worked in the WTC unaccounted for at that point.

In the early afternoon, we all went to Greenwich Point Park, where you could always see the World Trade Center on a clear day like this. All we saw was the smoke. It was incredibly affecting.

That evening our daughters went to a special meeting of their church youth group, at which several of the people seemed convinced this was all the US' fault and we deserved it....they never went back to the youth group again.

I was at work when someone came and said a plane had hit the WTC. We all thought it was a small plane accident. We turned on a small TV set and then watched it all unfold. No other work was done that morning.

At noon, I went to my church for a prayer service. As I was walking in, a lady I knew was coming out, having worked at morning child care in the church. She said, what’s going on with all the people coming to church? I told her what had happened and she was shocked. No one working in the church day care knew anything about it.

My son was working at the Fed Ex distribution hub at the Memphis airport at the time. That night, with all the planes grounded, Fed Ex turned to semi trucks to move the packages. I drove to the airport and saw every size and type of 18 wheeler truck lined up on all the border streets waiting to get into the Fed Ex complex to pick up freight.
I then drove by the airport terminal building where news crews were doing live interviews with stranded passengers.

“That evening our daughters went to a special meeting of their church youth group, at which several of the people seemed convinced this was all the US’ fault and we deserved it”

You know, this absolutely sickens me. Yours is just 1 of the last such references I’ve seen on this thread. I’m sorry, but I’m sick of these disgusting liberals who hate this country so much. I really wish they’d get the hell out if they hate it so much. Maybe they’d help the enemies pull the trigger? I wish we could trade them all for a bunch of poor foreigners who would LOVE to be here and don’t go for the socialist crap they pontificate, to boot.