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THE FREEPER CANTEEN - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning? - September 7, 2022
The best troops and vets in the world...and their families, too. | luvie and the Canteen Patriots

Posted on 09/06/2022 6:00:04 PM PDT by luvie

🇺🇸 I COULD DO NO LESS
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR 🇺🇸

~Freeper Canteen ~
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Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Today I Want You To Answer.....

Where Were You
When The World Stopped Turning
on 9-11



To share your results, write your memories of that day in a post. There are no right or wrong answers. It will help us to remember what we felt that moment, that day.

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly!

Alan Jackson~Where Were You
[txradioguy radio remix]




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MY REMEMBRANCE


I was walking through the house while getting ready for work, when I glanced at the TV, which I don't usually watch. There was a view of the WTC with smoke pouring out the upper floors, and the reporter on Fox News was saying that a plane of some kind had hit the building. There was no panic, just reporting the incident and wondering how it happened and what kind of plane it was. While I stood there, the 2nd plane hit the other tower. My heart nearly stopped and of course, like everyone else, I KNEW that was no accident.

I went on to work and everyone was scared and glued to the tiny TV we had in the back room of the store. I worked in the mall, and we finally closed at 1 PM and went home, because it was pretty much empty. Not only did I work in Bush's hometown but his mother-in-law still lived there, and we all feared that Midland, Texas, would be a prime target for people who hated the president. We also found out that the Pentagon had been hit and flight 93 had gone down in PA.

For the rest of that day and the rest of the week, I, like the rest of the world, was glued to the set, my heart breaking.


1 posted on 09/06/2022 6:00:04 PM PDT by luvie
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To: luvie

Good Evening, Everybody.

Never Forget.

(((HUGS)))


2 posted on 09/06/2022 6:01:15 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: luvie

Our Daily Bread

Wednesday,
September 7, 2022

Finding Refuge
Read: Isaiah 25:1–9

You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm. Isaiah 25:4

My wife and I once stayed in a lovely old seaside hotel with large sash windows and thick stone walls. One afternoon, a storm ripped through the region, churning up the sea and pounding our windows like angry fists on a door. Yet we were at peace. Those walls were so strong, and the hotel’s foundations so solid! While storms raged outside, our room was a refuge.

Refuge is an important theme in Scripture, starting with God Himself. “You have been a refuge for the poor,” Isaiah says of God, “a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm” (Isaiah 25:4). In addition, refuge is something God’s people were and are to provide, whether through Israel’s ancient cities of refuge (Numbers 35:6) or by offering hospitality to “foreigners” in need (Deuteronomy 10:19). These same principles can guide us today when humanitarian crises hit our world. In such times, we pray that the God of refuge would use us, His people, to help the vulnerable find safety.

The storm that hit our hotel was gone the following morning, leaving us with a calm sea and a warm sun that made the seagulls glow. It’s an image I hold on to as I think of those facing natural disasters or fleeing “ruthless” regimes (Isaiah 25:4): that the God of refuge would empower us to help them find safety now and a brighter tomorrow. — Sheridan Voysey

When have you taken “refuge” in God or found it through His people? How can you play a part in helping those facing a crisis today?

God of refuge, please empower me, Your child, to help the needy find refuge and hope.

 

Bible in a year: Proverbs 1–2; 1 Corinthians 16

3 posted on 09/06/2022 6:01:44 PM PDT by The Mayor (“Love the Lord your God,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39))
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To: luvie

I was driving to work and listening to NPR (I know, I know), after the first tower was hit. I’m sorry, but like with OK City I had only two thoughts initially. How is the government going to clamp down on us, and what else is going to happen in the near term? Especially after the Pentagon hit. Was it going to be four, or 54?

To this day I have never seen the actual video of the hit. I didn’t want an emotional reaction.


4 posted on 09/06/2022 6:05:25 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: luvie

In Hong Kong watching the Singaporean comedy “Living with Lydia”


5 posted on 09/06/2022 6:06:42 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: luvie

I was watching Greta van Sustren on Court TV coverage of the Scott Peterson Trial, as the bug exterminator was doing the monthly treatment of owr house (Florida).

Suddenly the program was interrupted with the report of the first plane going in.

The Bug-Guy, who was from pakistan, said:

“Why do they think that they are doing this for GOD?”

And so, even before the second plane went in, and even before the reporters spoke of it being an attack, this pakistani knew what was going on.

Chilling.


6 posted on 09/06/2022 6:06:59 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: luvie
Thanks for remembering, luvie!


7 posted on 09/06/2022 6:09:30 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: luvie

I was waiting for son to get ready for school, watching Good Morning America (didn’t know about Fox&Friends at the time). They talked about plane hitting WTC. Then, another plane hit! I watched constantly, for days. Two night was ago, I watched Nicholas Cage movie, “World Trade Center.” I cried at the end, like I cried while watching, during and after 9/11. I thought it was an excellent movie.


8 posted on 09/06/2022 6:16:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Later, I was watching TV, and heard a plane. I immediately ran out to see, and it was Air Force One. Only time I’ve ever seen it.


9 posted on 09/06/2022 6:23:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: luvie

It was my and Mrs. R17’s 25th wedding anniversary.
We had saved up and cashed in my frequent flyer miles
to take a week long trip to Hawaii, along with our 3 kids.
Greeted at the airport in Honolulu with welcoming leis, etc.

Rented a house right on the beach at the north shore of Oahu,
where all those surfing movies were made.
A few steps to the beach, Private pool, Private Hot Tub,
Pool Table, the works...

Monday, Sept. 10th, went to see the Pearl Harbor Memorial.
Remarked to everyone...
“No one today knows what an impact this had on everyone at the time...”

Next day Sep. 11th...slept in, got up and turned on the TV.
It was maybe 9 o’clock Hawaii time, (3 o’clock East Coast time)
Hawaii time is 6 hours earlier than East Coast time.
Could not believe what was on the TV.
Everything was already over.
All of the events of the day hit us in 10 minutes.
Total shock.

All air travel was cancelled; no way to get home.
Phone calls to work and family were met with>>>
“Oh, you are stranded in Hawaii?” (no sympathy)

Call to owner of rental house...
“We can’t leave...there are no flights out.”
Reply:
“Well, no one can fly in either,
so I can’t rent it to anyone else, Good Luck!”

Airport finally opened up Friday (9/14).
Instead of the welcoming leis,
there were humvees, M16s and explosive sniffing dogs.


10 posted on 09/06/2022 6:25:32 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: luvie

I was working for the FAA and saw the second plane hit the tower. We had a new guy and he asked where to get a cup of coffee and we were in the cafeteria when it hit. How would you like that for a first day of work?


11 posted on 09/06/2022 6:27:02 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: left that other site

#1....ML!
Good job!

12 posted on 09/06/2022 6:31:06 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: The Mayor

#2....Rus!
Way to go!
Thanks for our beautiful
lesson from God's Word!

13 posted on 09/06/2022 6:32:46 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: luvie

Pumping gas at $1.43/gallon.

That evening it was over $1.85.


14 posted on 09/06/2022 6:33:12 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: luvie
Getting ready to ping now. My day has been horrible and it's not over.

Thanks for today's Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning?

15 posted on 09/06/2022 6:34:01 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: luvie

A couple of days later I was placed on a standby list for doing a one week tour in metro NY/NJ as part of a national debriefing team.

Despite living less than four hours away I was never called because too many fellows decided (against regulations) to “self activate”.

Yes, I am still somewhat bitter...


16 posted on 09/06/2022 6:36:01 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: luvie; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2LT Radix jr; ...

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17 posted on 09/06/2022 6:37:09 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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#3...Dr. Sivana!
WooHoo!
It took me a while to think at all.
I was so shocked.

18 posted on 09/06/2022 6:37:42 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

Hi, there, Kathy! ((hugs))

Thanks for the ping-a-ling! Sorry your day has been so bad and I sure hope things will be better by tomorrow. I would imagine that they won’t, though. Darn it!


19 posted on 09/06/2022 6:43:07 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: luvie

I was on duty at the fire station that day. The officer was off so I had the paper hat. I was outside doing morning clean up and someone came out and announced a building had ben hit. We were allowed to turn on the TV and watch the events unfold live.

I remember thinking that there was so much fire load in those buildings that they were going to come down.

Lost 343 brothers and sisters that day.

One of my most vivid memories was looking out over DFW airport flight path and seeing zero aircraft in the sky when there would normally be dozens.


20 posted on 09/06/2022 6:44:00 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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