To: Jim Robinson; onyx; TheOldLady; RedMDer; Lady Jag; trisham; moose07; DJ MacWoW; The Cajun; ...
Thank You for posting this thread Jim.
Special Ping out to the Lists.
Where were YOU on September 11th, 2001?
I was 13 Years old in 8th Grade. This we before the ear of Ubiquitous Cell Phones and Media so we were kept in the Dark until bout 10:50 CST when I arrived in History Class, which had a TV, Just in time watch the Towers Begin to Fall.
I literally couldn't believe it.
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09/11/2015 4:18:25 AM PDT by
KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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Sweet, young, KC_Lion! Now you're a courageous, conservative man! Not only a Veteran, but also an awesome, Patriot-FReeper!
DrO and I were still living in San Diego. We were
very busy raising our then 22 month-old, granddaughter Jordan.
My daughter in the Cayman's called early --- it was only 6:30AM or thereabout --- to tell me to turn on the TV! That's when I first learned the first tower had been hit about 30 minutes prior to her call.
I stayed glued to the TV all day and night and I wanted DrO to come home from his office, but he was overwhelmed by "extremely upset" patients, pouring into his office
without appointments. I recall that he didn't get home until well past 7:00PM and that he brought loads of (Chinese) take-out with him, for all of us to eat. Jordan loved and still loves, Chinese noodles.
Today, that same granddaughter is almost 16 and she tells me that she 'actually remembers,' those 2 days and nights she & I spent camped out in from of the TV, and that's what we did: we both camped out on an air mattress, in front of the TV!
I might add, that Jordan is a stellar student, a true beauty, and very political! Right-wing and very conservative on everything, except "homosexual marriage,"!!! --- kids her age just don't get it,... yet!
I was at work, and since we didn't have TV there, all of us listened closely to the radio as the horror unfolded. We got VERY much info from people here on Free Republic in the hours and days that followed. About a month later I officially signed up (had lurked for a while after being turned on to the site by my wife.
That was a time when the following graphic actually meant something. Nowadays our government doesn't care about a damn thing!
