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THE FREEPER CANTEEN - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning - Wednesday, September 11, 2019
The best troops and vets in the whole world...and their families too. | LUV W and The Canteen Patriots

Posted on 09/10/2019 5:59:52 PM PDT by luvie

🇺🇸I COULD DO NO LESS
ON THIS DATE🇺🇸

~Freeper Canteen ~
Canteen Mission Statement

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]




TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: 911; canteen; military; troopsupport
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To: LUV W

My husband and I were living on Maui. Awakened by a phone call from a friend who told us to turn on the tv.
The skies were quiet for days.


21 posted on 09/10/2019 6:20:48 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: LUV W
I was on Amtrak's Coast Starlight coming into the San Francisco Bay Area out of Seattle. I was with a group of people going to a rail conference in a suburb on the Caltrain route.

We were on the way to the dining car for breakfast when one of our group told about the attacks in New York and Washington. We're at war, I thought.

Our Oregon friends were set to fly out of Portland but couldn't in that the skies were closed. Our California counterparts were at their emergency stations. The meeting wasn't held.

It was eerie seeing no airplanes in the sky except for the fighter jets. I watched the horror unfold on CNN from the TV in my motel room.

The trip back to Seattle during the chaos was another story and probably best kept for another occasion.

22 posted on 09/10/2019 6:22:03 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: left that other site

#3...ML
Me either.
How could ANY American forget!

23 posted on 09/10/2019 6:22:06 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

All of it was just surreal. It seemed like things just kept happening...and I kept expecting an announcement that the White House was gone.

Which it could have been. Thank God for the heroes on Flight 93.


24 posted on 09/10/2019 6:23:59 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

I worked at AT&T network operations....our switches were overloaded so we had to stop traffic from coming into Manhattan only allowing egress....The wallboard was lite up like a Xmas tree....We just stared at the TV monitors in disbelief.....it was horrible......


25 posted on 09/10/2019 6:25:25 PM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: LUV W

Should have nuked Mecca that same day.


26 posted on 09/10/2019 6:26:07 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: LUV W
At work, one of my crew told me to come look at a TV in the lab, just about the time the second plane hit.

Went up to my office and turned on my scanner to listen to air traffic comms.

Was interesting for the rest of the day and air traffic controllers got everyone to land. One foreign sounding private pilot sis not want to do it, and the controller got really pissed.

Listened to a couple of F-16 orbiting over L.A. and what they spotted.

Felt guilty a bit later in the day as they shut down all commercial traffic. Was due to fly to Hawaii for vacation in a few days.

27 posted on 09/10/2019 6:26:41 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: hanamizu

Right. The images are just seared on our memories. Every detail.


28 posted on 09/10/2019 6:27:14 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: mountainlion

I imagine he was wishing he was anywhere but there.


29 posted on 09/10/2019 6:28:24 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: seowulf

That was kind of her to have such empathy.


30 posted on 09/10/2019 6:29:47 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Chainmail

Wow. Bound for a newsperson to think he’s that important! ffft!


31 posted on 09/10/2019 6:32:31 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

No, he didn’t.

L


32 posted on 09/10/2019 6:32:41 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Excellent!


33 posted on 09/10/2019 6:33:20 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

Standing Comm Watch at Air Force Weather Agency Offutt AFB, NE.


34 posted on 09/10/2019 6:33:30 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: LUV W

I’m watching specials on National Geographic channel right now. Hoping some liberals will watch and get pissed off again. Especially the coexist morons.


35 posted on 09/10/2019 6:33:44 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: LUV W; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2LT Radix jr; ...

~ Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning ~

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36 posted on 09/10/2019 6:33:48 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Lurker

Your heart must have dropped to your feet when you saw the images.


37 posted on 09/10/2019 6:34:00 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W

It did. My youngest brother works in Manhattan. We didn’t hear from him for two days.

L


38 posted on 09/10/2019 6:35:51 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: LUV W
At home. Turned on computer and ran upstairs to turn on the tv. When the Pentagon was hit, I was worried about my brother. He's Army, but he was working with the Navy on a joint communication project and I knew he was in DC for the week, working at the Pentagon. It was a long day until we heard he was okay. He had been there in the Navy section when the plane hit. My heart just broke for all those people on the planes and in the buildings.

When my brother came out once planes were flying again, I told him we needed to immediately close the borders and deport all Muslims and let them re-apply after serious vetting. Wish we had done that.

39 posted on 09/10/2019 6:35:57 PM PDT by Kipp
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To: LUV W
The night of Sept 10th in Mississippi I had messed up and locked myself out of my account at Oppenheimer funds so I had to wait until the next day during working hours to get it unlocked. I went to work right before 8am CST and sat down at my desk with the TV on and called Oppenheimer at promptly 9am EST. The first plane hit the Trade Center and I was watching the TV. Oppenheimer is in the 2nd Trade Center and the lady there was helpful and I related to her what I had just seen on the TV and she said they were in the other Trade Center and safe. She helped me unlock my account and I thanked her. Shortly after the second plane hit the Tower she was in. I had just got off the phone with her. I later checked with Oppenheimer and all of the employees got out safely. Our office watched the events unwind and after both Towers fell I called all of the employees into an exam room and we prayed. I was lucky as my cousin was in the subway below the Towers when they fell and survived.

Business was slow that day as most of our clients cancelled their appointments.

40 posted on 09/10/2019 6:36:29 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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