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Posted on 09/10/2019 5:59:52 PM PDT by luvie
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Well, that was creepy. Where were they taking them...or where were they going?
Wow. I never thought about the plane just flying low and slow down the street to its destination. What a shock it must have been right before the larger shock.
They was getting them out.
I was not invited to the meeting but I took notes.
I was already in the office at a desk working when one of the linemen ran in and shouted to turn on the TV. An airplane had just ran into a skyscraper in New York.
My first thought was that a smaller airplane, maybe a two, or four, seater had been shifted by a gust of wind into the side of a building, never mind what a small plane would have been doing that close to a building in New York.
Then we saw the damage, and the second jet hit the other tower on live TV.
It took a moment for it to sink in. Then we heard what must have been every fire truck, ambulance, and probably a lot of the police sirens in Charlottesville sound off. We were at such a juncture of intersections that we saw the emergency vehicles take off to the Pentagon, all in a caravan moving fast.
I was in Charlottesville for three weeks. The weekend after 9/11 I visited a friend in Deleware. I drove through Washington DC, past the Pentagon on the highway while I was traveling. It was a ghost town, with missile batteries set up.
Got home two weeks late, but got home.
The first plane hitting was a news story but no one had a clue how big a news story it would become.
Hubby always has the radio on when he works out there. Otherwise he’d have been clueless for hours.
It was a bright sunny autumn morning, my radar went off right away, this was no mistake.
I don’t expect anyone born later to know much as I know history is terribly lacking in school these days. I have a grandson who was five at the time and he remembers it vividly.
So, anyone over the age of 25 should know their recent history. jmo
Thanks for the link. It had to be eerie for their not to be traffic in DC. That’s unheard of.
THey got us good, but What I HATE HATE about these people is you don’t have to use capitol one or apple and hate on us.
Go home faisel, milk your goat.
May the milk stink upon your beard.
I would certainly hope so. I don’t even know how much my granddaugher who is 12 knows. Or if she’d feel as achingly sad about it as I do about Pearl Harbor, for which I wasn’t around.
Jay will be 100 on Thursday!,,
They used torpedoes to break the barricades on Omaha beach
Salute
Swore that I wanted those fers dead! Everyone of them!
I was running the medical unit in a fire camp in Grangeville, ID. We had the busiest airport in the nation as they allowed us to remain in operation to fight an active forest fire.
It’s really sad how education has changed over the years. One would hope it would have improved but, alas....
I’ve told the story before, but I’ll tell it again....
I used to work as an airport shuttle driver around Sea-Tac Airport. My first pickup that morning was two older couples, going off to a two-week vacation in the Caribbean. As I drove along, I had a local all-news channel playing in the van, mostly for traffic reports. The news of the first plane came over the radio, and we all said “What a shame”. About 5 minutes from the airport, the radio gave the news about the second plane, and one of the gentlemen in the back said “That’s no accident”.
After I dropped them off at the airport, I was waiting for my next run to be sent to me, when on the van’s two-way radio another driver said “I heard they’re closing the airport”. Another driver asked “Which airport?”, and the dispatcher chimed in “ALL of them!”.
I headed north into Seattle towards my next run, and I was just inside the city limits when word came about the Pentagon. I drove for another 5 minutes before I decided I needed to call my wife. She told me she’d already heard and not to worry about her. I continued on to the area where the pickups were, but before I could pick anyone up, the two-way came to life...”All vans...if you have guests aboard inbound (to the airport), turn around and take them back home. We doubt there will be any more flights today. All vans that are clear (no guests aboard), return to the airport to get guests to take them home”.
As I drove back to the airport, I noticed how beautiful the skies were. Not a cloud in the sky. As I saw the skyline of Seattle, I wondered if in the next moment that skyline would disappear in a nuclear fireball.
I got off work and went home. I sat with my wife, our little boy, and our month-old baby girl, and watched the news for the rest of the day. We didn’t say much...there wasn’t anything to say.
I was scheduled to work the next day, but didn’t return to work until two days later. The company darn near went belly-up, but they managed to hold on by the skin of their teeth, and they are still running today.
I was on a Burke class DDG returning from deployment - two days out from Pearl Harbor heading to San Diego.
We were doing a ‘tiger cruise’, where parents, grandparents, children etc could ride the ship - there were about 50 of them.
We were tasked to work with the carrier and enforce the no-fly zone between San Francisco and LA.
God bless Jay! Is he a member of the VFW there?
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