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Here's an example of what I mean by "other events." I can tell you what someone at the New York Times was doing: editing and layout for a big interview that was printed in the September 11th edition. The interview was with Bill Ayers, a completely unrepentant Weatherman terrorist who recently wrote a book about his experiences and got the usual media butt-kissing. In the interview, Ayers talked (in phrases eerily reminiscent of the Dennis Hopper character in Speed) about the beauty (from a distance) of the pattern of the bomb becoming chaos. Mona Charen pointed out in Useful Idiots how appropo it was that thousands of copies of that feature interview were blasted into ash when the Trade Towers were struck.

The following Sunday, I went to a Blood Drive, opened a copy of the Sunday Chicago Tribune that was lying in the waiting area, and there, on the cover of the Sunday Trib Magazine big as life, was Bill Ayer's arrogant face. I said something out loud, I don't remember what, but it was not pretty, whatever it was. I still have the magazine. I want a reminder that we live in a culture where a professional journalist will sit down with a guy who wanted to blow up a dance at Fort Dix and write him up as if he were a member of the freakin' French Resistance.

Never Forget

1 posted on 09/10/2003 9:47:41 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
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Question: What were you doing this day two years ago?

Reading news on FR, as always.

2 posted on 09/10/2003 9:49:56 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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How am I supposed to remember what I was doing the day BEFORE?

I guess I will FreeperMail John Robinson and have him look in the archives for me to see what I was doing that day. lol
3 posted on 09/10/2003 9:51:02 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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I was at work, which was a startup company desperate for cash (sept 15th payroll was uncertain and only got made at the last possible minute). And looking forward to the first Monday Night Football game of the year. Then I watched the game and probably had a beer. Just a normal Monday.

One of the things I remember is that on Tuesdays I always read my web comics (Sluggy, User Friendly, PVP, and a couple of others). Needless to say on that particular Tuesday I didn't, and then I didn't the next week, and the week after. Then it kind of became a thing. Wasn't until December of 2002 that I started reading Sluggy and PVP again, haven't picked up any of the others, and I read them on Mondays instead of Tuesdays. Those subtle changes in life are the ones that interest me.
5 posted on 09/10/2003 9:53:27 AM PDT by discostu (just a tuna sandwich from another catering service)
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I always get the creeps when I think about it, but on 9/10/01 I was trying to decide to take a chance and buy out of the money 'puts' on the QQQ. By the end of the day I decided against it and sold what few stocks I had left because I was expecting a lot of tax loss selling by mutual funds later that month and bulked up on cash instead of going negative in the options market. Kinda glad I didn't buy the puts. I might have had a hard time sleeping knowing I made money because terrorists attacked Wall Street.
8 posted on 09/10/2003 9:58:11 AM PDT by Orangedog (Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
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I have absolutely NO idea what I was doing the day before, due to the fact that the next morning was such a complete shock. Seems like everything changed that day.

I'm sure though that I was on FR....that is a given. I do remember that the Condit thing was still generating big threads, and the very morning of 9-11 there were several going on at the moment of the first plane hitting the tower.

I still say Condit probably heaved a HUGE sigh of relief on 9-11. At that moment, he got away with murder, and he knew it. JMHO~~~
9 posted on 09/10/2003 9:59:08 AM PDT by EggsAckley ((o;/>~......................bemused.........................~</;o))
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Hmmm, Monday, Sept. 10, 2001 -
I spent the day poring over blue-prints and writing procedures for rebuilding Black Hawk helicopter tail pylons - came home and did housework because my 43-year old wife was 9-months pregnant with our daughter.
I had no idea our world would be forever changed the following morning.
Let us never forget why we fight this war - and why don't those treasonous Demoncrats just shut the hell up and quit bashing America and our Commander-In-Chief......
10 posted on 09/10/2003 10:01:08 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is a war room".)
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I was here, at this desk, working on porting science code from IRIX to Linux. I was part-time then, working between classes, having two jobs, one on-campus (so I could work between classes), and this one for NASA (so I could make a decent wage).

I probably had a browser window open to FR. I can't remember that much. The big news of the day was the rep from Modesto -- umm what was his name -- and the Shandra Levy case. (Seriously, I can't recall the guys name -- shows you how he moved to the dustbin of history.)
11 posted on 09/10/2003 10:01:49 AM PDT by jae471
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I was flying to Washington, DC for a three-day meeting that started on Tuesday. I read a couple of point papers, edited a PowerPoint presentation, and then began reading a Dale Brown novel ("Warrior Class").

That night, I was at the Crystal City Holiday Inn, with my co-workers, nailing the last details down and having some dinner. I then went out for a walk, called my wife and daughter, and went to bed.

An utterly ordinary business travel day.

I had no premonitions about the next day, aside from knowing that the meeting was going to involve a lot of yelling and screaming (I was working on a controversial project).
15 posted on 09/10/2003 10:09:01 AM PDT by Poohbah (Hee Haw was supposed to be a television show...not the basis of a political movement...)
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I remember the morning of 9/11 (before the events began) very well. I remember it was a spectacular late summer day here in New England (much like it is today). Deep, blue skies. No humidity. Comfortable temperatures. I remember being bummed out I had to work that day because it was such a perfect fishing day. The previous Sunday (the 9th), I had gone fishing off Gloucester pier and had a great time. Anyway, I missed out on the immediacy of following events because when I got to work that morning (about 8AM), I decided to do an employee's performance review on the spur of the moment. Thus, I was locked in my office with the phones shut off as events unfolded. I began to get an inkling that strange things were happening when I saw co-workers (through the window of my office) pulling a television into the center of the room. Then the employee I was doing a review with got a cellphone call from his wife and all hell broke loose after that.

I mentioned that I spent that Sunday fishing but I don't remember what I was doing on Monday. I'll have to dig out my DayPlanner from that year and see. I do remember that a fairly hot topic on FR at that time was all the vacation Bush took that summer. There were some snide remarks being made in the papers about all the time Bush spent on his Texas ranch. Well as we all know, it turned out to be a good thing that Bush had all that rest.

17 posted on 09/10/2003 10:10:53 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Back in boot camp! 224.2 (-75.8))
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I was in California after my dad's funeral. On the morning of the 11th I was in LAX holding my boarding pass, waiting to get on the plane at 7:50 California time. I was in a hurry to get home in MD as my wife was due to give birth soon. They told us there was a 1 hour delay, then a 2 hour delay, then evacuate the airport.

I was stuck in LA trying to find an affordable way to get to Santa Barbara where I was stuck for 4 more days. I am just glad I wasn't ON the plane at the time - God knows where I would have ended up staying.
19 posted on 09/10/2003 10:16:01 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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Starting a new job for Adelphia ;)
20 posted on 09/10/2003 10:17:26 AM PDT by N3WBI3
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I was here at my desk in downtown Manhattan. When I looked out my window I could see the World Trade Center buildings towering over the building immediately next to me...although I'm sure I didn't take any particular notice of that fact because they were always there.
21 posted on 09/10/2003 10:18:13 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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It was a normal day in my office, probably spoke to my colleagues on the 10th floor of 1 WTC (as I did most days).

The one thing I do recall was that my wife and I went to the gym that evening, and I was probably watching MNF there for a while before heading home. I know I was at the gym because it was quite a while before I went back, and I've not really been a regular there since 9/10/01.

I also recall turning on the radio Tuesday morning around 5:45 AM (PST), hearing the KSFO gang talking about an airplane hitting the WTC. One of them commented that it was probably a small private plane, probably a freak accident.

To them and to all listeners that it would be preposterous for any plane, let alone a commercial jet, to have deliberately hit the building. Little did we know... At that point, off went the radio, on went FNC to see what was going on. Just in time to watch tower 2 get hit.

Beyond my friends and collegues who worked at the WTC, I was quite tense when I heard that a United flight to SF was involved in one of the crashes. A lady who formerly taught with my wife was, at the time, a flight attendant for United, based in SF. Fortunately, she was not on the plane.

24 posted on 09/10/2003 10:30:23 AM PDT by ssaftler
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Heck, not hard to forget what I did that day at all. I got on a plane at Newark bound for Colorado and sat on the tarmac for four hours as heavy rain beat down. We just barely got off the ground that evening, otherwise I would have had to fly out of NYC the morning of September 11. As it was, got into Dallas too late to complete the journey, and wound up spending three glorious unintended days in that fair city.
25 posted on 09/10/2003 10:38:46 AM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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On 9/11/01 I was at the same job I am today - a couple of cubes away from where I sat that day. A co-worker came by my cube to tell me that an airliner had struck one of the WTC towers. I initially thought it an accident - the towers are tall and aircraft have flown into buildings before. The second strike left it in no doubt that it was not an accident.

I met my wife and 2yo daughter at the mall food court for lunch that day. It was eerily quiet and begged her to go directly home afterwards and stay there. None of us had any ideas as to where else there could be trouble.

The company opened up the exercise room in one of the buildings on our campus - they have multiple TVs. I was in the room watching as the first of the two towers collapsed. There were audible sobs from co-workers who were watching.

It was difficult to watch, knowing that people were dying as the tower went down, but I knew that I had to watch it.

IMO anyone who does not treat this as a war is foolish, short-sighted and IMO a traitor to our country. The Islamic fascists want all of us dead or Muslim - it doesn't matter if you're conservative or a pinko. I think most of us Freepers understand that.

We're at war, we're at war, we're at war.

Let's Roll.


26 posted on 09/10/2003 10:40:24 AM PDT by Bosco
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My sinuses were killing me as I woke up -- early -- on that Tuesday morning. I took some medicine and plopped down on the couch at about 5:30, watching Jack Cafferty's curmudgeonly ramblings on CNNfn.

After sixish, I woke the kids to get them ready for school. I had yet another day of job-searching planned for myself (I was in the midst of a 5+ month employment drought).

My very pregnant wife and daughter left at around 20 minutes to 9 to get my daughter to school by 9. I poured myself a second cup of coffee, sat down at my desk and turned my attention to "Good Day Atlanta" on WAGA.

A commercial for some car dealer or some other sundry thing was on. The commercial ended abruptly as Lisa Rayam said, "We're going to join CNN live right now; there's something happening in New York City - it appears that an airplane has struck one of the towers of the World Trade Center."

My mouth fell open as I was entranced. The first thing I thought of was the Empire State Building plane crash that we'd all seen pictures of, where the plane got lost in the fog.

I started flipping to all the affiliates and news stations -- news junkie that I am -- to see if there was any better information than what was coming from CNN.

By 9, I figured that the quick shower that I had in mind was out, so I flipped on the set in the bedroom so I could hear and see it while I washed up and tossed on a t-shirt and sweats.

I remember thinking as time appeared to slow down, "What's that plane doing? Is it a military rescue plane? It's banking awful sharply to get around--"

Like the rest of the nation, I went numb.

I rushed back into the living room and frantically found the phone. I knew my brother would be getting ready for work, and not out the door yet up in Indiana.

"Hello," the voice on the other end grumbled.

"Turn on CNN, now," I yelled.

After a pause, he said, "Holy shit! What is it, terrorists!?"

"Yeah, it looks like it."

I was transfixed the rest of the day, hell, the rest of the week. When my kids got home, I turned to other things - thank God for Disney Channel & Cartoon Network.

It was hard to get to sleep that night with those scenes playing out over and over again when I closed my eyes. The people jumping. The flames. The falling towers. The dust-covered zombies who were the walking wounded.

Not only that, after midnight, jumbo freight jets for FedEx, UPS and all the rest normally fly overheard out of Hartsfield with packages for the world. Their thundering rumbles are almost comforting after all these years. That night, however, was eerily quiet.

I knew the world had changed forever that day. I knew that we were at war with a foe that could strike us anywhere at any time. I was afraid for my family. For my friends.

Like the rest of the nation, I mourned. I was blessed not to have lost anyone direcly in the disaster, but friends had lost. Family, even, had lost people close to them.

And those bastards had the audacity and unmitigated evil to celebrate. They thought they had mortally injured us. But after we mourned, and cried, we dried those tears and put on our collective armor.

Like a rivalry between schools, we fight each other tooth and nail regularly. We trade licks and insults and venom with regularity. But don't ever mistake that for weakness. Because you hit one of us - rival or otherwise - and you have to take us all on.

It's like Bill Bixby in 'The Hulk' years ago.

"Don't make me angry....You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

27 posted on 09/10/2003 10:41:46 AM PDT by mhking (Aw, man! Get the Jello! Smear it all over the floor! "Get outta here chicken heart!!!")
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I have no idea what I was doing the night of Sptember 10th, probably watched TV with my then very pregnant wife and she probably went to bed early.

On the morning of the 11th I was at my desk by 8 am going over various Purchase Orders that might have come over late on Monday, probably catching up on news on the internet. I remember I had 700 WLW on at they mentioned that a small plane had apparently hit one of the World Trade Center buildings. I commented to several co-workers the this had happend before when an Army B25 had gotten lost in fog and hit the Empire State Building. I figured it must be foggy in New York. I was wrong...
28 posted on 09/10/2003 10:42:18 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Mind like a steel trap... Rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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I was too angry just sitting on my ass all day watching the death and destuction on the tube, so I got out the driver and blasted some golf balls into the Puget Sound. When that didn't do the trick, I chopped some wood with my heaviest axe. Nothing was working, so I grabbed my battle rifle and went down the the local range. Finally, a little peace. Came home, sharpened the Ka-Bar knives, and was overcome by a sense of steely determination.
30 posted on 09/10/2003 10:52:17 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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My wife and I were planning our son's 3rd birthday party. We were borrowing chairs and cleaning up the house while the football game was on in the background. Just an average night. We both talked about the party the next day and planned as though we had all the security in the world. It was actually a very nice low-key night.

32 posted on 09/10/2003 11:05:39 AM PDT by the lone haranguer
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I was at the end of a 6 month deployment to Iwakuni Japan. Looking very forward to rotating home on the 12th of sept. It was about 8 pm or so, some of my friends and I were watching a movie (on video) in my room when one of my Sgts ran form his Bks accross the road to inform us that the WTC had just been attacked with aircraft. We watched in horror as the second, third and fourth A/C hit thier mark. We were glued to the TV until about 3am, when we broke for a few hours of shut eye. We were summond at 0400 for a base wide recall, ordered to report to our work centers to enact contingency plans. Being an Aviation Ordnanceman and a Marine, we were quite busy....and have been ever since. The fact that so many folks have forgotten how they felt durring and after the attacks really pisses me off! Get the hell off of the President and look for ways YOU can make a positive difference in this war. WAR! YOUR FUTURE depends on it.
33 posted on 09/10/2003 11:10:48 AM PDT by TheGunny
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