Small world. He and I were classmates at the Citadel and attended East Cooper Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant for a few months after graduation.
I didn’t know him as well as you, but more of an acquaintance.
That is pretty amazing and really kind of adds value to this website when a random news story can be put on the site and several folks can step forward to give eyewitness accounts.
Example: Let’s say FreeRepublic were around during the Kennedy Assassination...we’d have folks writing in saying “I’m on the second floor of the Depository”. Someone would blackberry in, “Some guy dressed up like a cop just walked behind the fence up here on this knoll.”
I started reading this site back during Monica Lewinski as I was hungry for some more honest information since I could smell lies coming from the White House. Since then, a lot more people who have a lot more access have lurked, lingered and even donated to FR. I wouldn’t be surprised if the president has come on here to read our postings.
I was really struck by 9/11. I used to toggle the site between trades when I worked at Lehman Brothers. As I experienced the sound of the first plane crashing into the WTC next door that day, I was seeing the first reports on here and listening to CNBC covering it...it was all surreal. We turned off the monitors and headed to the Staten Island Ferry before the second plane hit. We were at Castle Clinton when the second plane flew over us.
Late that night, safely home in New Jersey, I relived the entire thing minute by minute on FR. Sad, sick, alittle scared but thinking “what an amazing site this is...”
Cheers,
J