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Posted on 09/09/2025 6:00:05 PM PDT by luvie
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| Just so you know, my story was NOTHING compared to others who heard or saw what happened that day, but..... 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 TV set, my heart breaking. |
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I was with a real estate company, and that was the morning that we normally took a tour of the houses we have for sale.
We reached our first house on the tour and the action on TV was just starting to take place. We canceled the rest of our tour and went back to the office, where some watched the office TV, others went home to watch and be with family.
I recall how the skies were empty of any air traffic for days.
We were in HK in the evening, watching the comedy show “Living with Lydia” a Singaporean sit com. TVB in HK cut to coverage from ABC news.
Moron Commie is going to fix NYC?
On base. Working.
On my way to work.
Didn’t make it.
Yeah right.
Right here on FR. I posted I was sending prayers. It’s on one of the threads of that fateful morning.
In Germany in the Saar region at an International Sales Meeting. I think we were in a meeting after lunch when the head of our division left the room and found out about the attacks. He came back in to inform us about the attacks.
Just waking up. I was lying in bed listening to Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan on KSFO. I could tell from their tone that something bad had gone down.
I was in the sub-basement of 1 Chase Plaza, watching on CNN with my buddy Bill. We didn’t think the towers would actually collapse, but then one did. We went up the escalator to the sub-plaza level, and the air was so dense with dust we couldn’t see. People were pouring in through the revolving doors to escape, bringing dust into the building.
After about 15 minutes, the dust settled and we went out the back way onto Maiden Lane, walking towards the Brooklyn Bridge. We put handkerchiefs over our nose and mouth. Bill went over the Brooklyn Bridge to get to Long Island, and I walked up Water Street.
The thing that I remember the most that everything seemed completely normal when I got to Chinatown. The sky was blue, the air was clear, and Chinese groceries were selling fish and vegetables from stalls. I, and many other people, were covered with dust from head to foot, and looked like a migration of ghosts. I went into a Chinese deli and bought a big diet Cherry Pepsi. The counterman didn’t bat an eye - serving ghostly customers was apparently nothing new to him.
Taking care of the kids in the base house in tx. A lot the people grew up with family, friends, stock bros, firefighters, manhattan denizens, who knew who was there. The phone lines were so dead. Didn’t see hub for a long time. Couple of days? The skies were so quiet for I can’t say how long
It took the guys two weeks before they could go get the commuter car at the train station in Huntington. They had to finally give up.
The crystal clear skies of the last few mornings over the NE US have brought that dread day to the forefront all week.
I was pumping gas at $1.43/gallon...pulled away from the pumps as the news of the SECOND plane broke.
And that is when we KNEW!
And too many have forgotten.
And ya. I was on FR. A plane hit one of the the twin towers.
I was in the air on a plane out of Houston. Landed, picked up my rental car, didn’t even know anything had happened until I arrived at the worksite I was visiting. Just lucky I had a rental car, as I was able to drive it back to Houston
I got on FR as soon as I heard about it.
What an active day it was on the board, glad FR held up under the strain.
This gets me thinking, I have been a freeper since 1998, good lord I’m getting on in years :-)
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To all our military men and women, past and present,
At work, Pacific time zone. One of my guys had a TV and let all know something was happening.
After the word about the air shutdown, I turned on my scanner and monitored the traffic control. Amusing listening to them threaten some private pilot that did not want to land right then.Pt Mugu launched some E-2 radar planes and the AF had a couple F-16s orbiting over L.A.
I was at work on Freerepublic. I noticed at some point that everything jus seemed to moving slow. I was on dialup so didn’t think much of it.
A bit after that someone came into my office and asked why i was working because buildings all around the country were being bombed. The rest of the day I was glued to FR.
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