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9/11...5 Years

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I was getting ready to take a student flying. We were getting the plane prepped for takeoff, a base operations guy came running out to the aircraft and gave us the news. My first thought was about my sister, the lives in Manhattan. I called her and she wouldn't answer the phone. So, all my siblings took turns calling her & she finally answered the phone 4 hours later. What a relief! I woke up this morning and said a prayer for all the personnel whose lives were lost on 9/11/01. I also, prayed for their families and all the armed service men & women who lost their lives fighting to keep America free.
 
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It continues to be hard to discuss the emotions of that day.

I was a fairly new father, living in a city hundreds of miles from any blood relatives and for the first time since packing up and leaving the homestead, I missed it.

I couldn't see my brothers or my sister that day. My mother was the closest person to me in Grantsville, WV. 210 miles away. My wife and I watched tv that night in absolute silence. Unsure of what to say we said nothing. we just watched the footage over and over and over. The gamit of emotions ran through more than once.

Sadness, anxiety, anger, rage and back to sadness. Having spent years training for just such a catastrophe, I felt helpless so far away from it. I thought about the widowed parents, orphaned children, and the single young entrepenour making his mark in the industry, and his family back home in Nebraska or Iowa who would never hear his voice again.

Today is my 13th wedding anniversary. For the last few years, my wife and I have celebrated our anniversary on a different date, to avoid the guilty feeling of celebrating on the day so many are mourning the losses of loved ones. Today, I have taken the day off work. I am going to the florist, buying a dozen roses, stopping by my wife's work with lunch and makinng a nice dinner at home.

It was approximately a month after 9/11 that Emily and Megan were conceived. Emily is four and ready to start school next fall, and most of you know what happened with Megan. It was shortly after the birth that Ohio State began that magical run to Tempe, Arizona that captivated us all.
 
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I was in a parking lot on the east side of Cleveland on a smoke break...I guy told us that a plane had hit the WTC...No big deal, didn't think anything of it (The second plane had already hit, but I didn't know it yet). A minute or two later, a very low flying jet screamed above us. I thought how strange that a plane is that low when the airport is on the other side of town...Went back into the building and someone told us a second plane had hit. We watched the collapse of the two buildings on a very small black/white TV. They sent us home where I learned that the low flying plane we saw was the one that crashed in Pennsylvania...I spent the rest of the day in front of the TV.
 
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Anyone watching 9/11

Tomorrow, is something that all Sport fans and friends should never forget. It was the most devastating day in the History of the United States ever.

Let's all take time out, if just for a day or just a minute to remember everyone. And anyone who was devastated by 9/11.

I mourn for all, and this will be remembered forever. Just to show my love for the ones that have been lost and the true spirit of Sports and Life.

God Bless America, and the ones that have passed away. Today should be a day to remember, forever.

Just a thought, and rememberance.
The war on terror will never be over until they are all dead.
 
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My story is similar to many others who have already posted... I was eating breakfast at one of my college's cafeteria's with my then fiancee, now wife, before heading to class... the cafeteria's usually have one of the local radio stations playing over their sound system. As we got up to leave the radio station was doing their hourly news and said a plane had hit the WTC... from the way they explained and the tone they were using we both thought it was just a small plane, we were sad for the "pilot" and anyone who got impacted in the immediate area but no big deal... we then scooted off to class.

My first class that morning wasn't a regular class... my college had a few "distance learning" classes that it offered over its summer semester and this class was a wrap-up/discussion over what we read. Others had heard the first plane was an airliner, not a small recreational airplane like I originally thought. Our professor came into the classroom about 5-7 minutes late with a somber look on his face. He explained that a second plane had hit the other WTC tower and that we were not going to have the class wrap-up (he never rescheduled and gave us all A's). So we left the classroom and one of the professors had a TV on with about 15 students just watching it. I watched for a few minutes then left to go over to the college's computer center office while I waited for my fiancee to finish with her class.

Right beside the computer center office is the college's largest auditorium (holds about 150-200 people, small in comparison to OSU's I'm sure) and they had the projector turned onto one of the news networks. So I sit down in the auditorium and not even 5 minutes later is when the first tower fell. About 2 dozen of us just sat there in astonishment for a while. I left to go find my fiancee and later learned the second tower had collapsed.

I was scheduled to work in the computer center office that afternoon so I showed up around 1:00 for work. The college president had cancelled classes for the afternoon so there wasn't a lot for us to do. We spent most of our time taking shifts between manning the phones in the computer center and walking over to the auditorium to watch the coverage.
 
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My story is different from most who have posted, but is identical to the experience of everyone who was living in California at the time who had family living in the Eastern time zone:

..ring, ring..

me (waking up, answering the phone wondering wtf time it was): Hello???

caller (for me, my mom): turn on the tv

me: what channel?

caller: doesn't matter


Everyone I knew in California experienced exactly the same phone call.

I watched the first tower fall, took a shower, watched the second tower fall, went to work because I couldn't think of anything else to do, left work before 11AM because I couldn't imagine working.

Many people I knew in California did exactly the same thing.
 
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I had the week off from school and work, so I had just rolled out of bed and turned on the computer to check my email. As I was waiting for the computer to boot-up, I turned on the radio and heard them talking about the first crash.

My first thought was not terrorism, but some type of freak pilot error. However, as I was watching the damage on television and talking to my mother on the phone who was also watching it, we saw the second plane fly into the other tower. That will be a moment I will never forget! I knew instantly at that moment we were under attack and the darkness of the world seemed more striking at that moment than I have ever experienced.
 
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I worked until about midnight the night before, so I got up a little later than usual. I was in the shower, and I recall hearing my phone ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. The only time I have had that happen before in my life was when my brother was in a motorcycle accident. Seemed like a bad omen. When I finally got out and answered, my brother told me a plane had hit one of the towers. It was all over the news. Looking at the hole in the tower, I thought it was just a mistake. I was even going to go down to work. Then the second plane hit - and everything changed. My brother is a contractor - and he told me to get out of the city, because there was no way those towers stay up after that type of hit. Minutes later - I recall being on the phone when I watched the first tower crumble. I was in shock - I was saying "it’s gone - the tower is actually gone". I used to work down there in the World Financial Center Place. The atrium of my building had a view that looked up right to the towers. I still got my haircut down there. I walked past those towers hundreds of times going to work. Was completely surreal. Started calling everyone I could who worked in NY but lived in NJ - they were going to need a place to sleep. No mass transit was working - there were a few women who I needed to get, and I didn’t want them walking alone, so I walked all the way down the upper west side to midtown and back to get them. People were walking around like zombies - in shock. I recall seeing F-15s circling M<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:city w:st="on">anhattan ov</st1:city>erhead. I overhead people saying how scared that made them. Made me feel good.

Once I got everyone back to my apartment, I felt I needed to do something. There was a firehouse one block down from my apt, and I used to be a fireman, so I figured they may need some help. When I arrived, they told me I couldn’t ride for legal reasons, but they could sure use the help back at the house. Truck after truck came back - I unpacked and packed hose for over four hours. By the time I was done, there was not an inch of me that was not covered in white dust. Thankfully - every one of that houses guys came back ok. If they were further south, probably a different story. I recall between shifts looking to the south, and seeing this large cloud rise up from downtown. Still couldn’t believe what had happened.<O></O>

The next day going to work - it was the quietest commute I have ever seen. No one said a word. I saw a guy in a three piece suit carrying a huge American flag as he walked down the street. People applauded. This one too. Getting to my desk - I pulled up something that I will never forget to this day - the US Treasury screen on Bloomberg was blank. The most liquid securities market in the world did not exist at that moment. Cantor Fitzgerald made that market, and they did not exist as a firm in a physical sense at that point any longer. I stared at the screen for at least ten minutes in disbelief.
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Here we are five years later, and I am still not sure what they assholes think they accomplished. Yes - they knocked down two buildings, but other than bombing them into the Stone Age, out foreign policy has not changed one iota. As successful as it was tactically, it was a complete failure strategically. For the most part, the world has given us carte blanche to deal with them in any way we see fit. In the end, am I shocked that in five years we have not killed this piece of shit? Yes. On the other hand, am I shocked that they have not hit us again in five years. Yes, I am.<O></O><O></O>
 
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Hard to believe this was 5 years ago already. I was in my freshman English class when the planes hit. I walked into my Spanish class following that and the TV was on and everyone was gathered around. The prof sent everyone home and I got back to my room just in time to see the second tower come down.

I spent the rest of the day in front of the TV trying to get ahold of my family as my uncle worked in the Trade Center (though not in the towers) to find out if he was ok. Turns out he had been at the company's other office that morning and was on his way back up when the planes hit. He called my aunt from near the base of the towers to tell her he was alright and they hung up minutes before they came down. That was the last we heard until late that night. He was lucky to be in the lobby of a nearby building when they came down and got through it without any injuries.

Prayers to those who were lost and to their families. I believe it was a miracle that only 3,000 out of potentially 10's of thousands that could have been. Today is a day to remember the real hero's what's really important in life.
 
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I was woke up by my girlfriend (she is now my wife:biggrin: ), she called me to tell me to turn on the TV, I was at my parents house....... I remember turning on the TV and sitting there with my mom, brother, and sister and watching it all unfold, right after the 1st plane it. I'll never forget strong realization that things would never be the same, especially as I watched the 1st tower collapse. It was probably one of the most surreal things that I've ever witnessed in my life.

I think that everyone in this country walked around in a zombie like "what do I do now?" trance. It was a moment that will forever be branded in my mind, and something that will provoke strong memories.

It was probably the only time that I have ever seen all Americans come together, shed their differences, and become one......... Sadly that day has passed, and a time has caused division once again. But on a day like today, I think everyone can't help but re-live that day, and how it affected them.
 
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I worked until about midnight the night before, so I got up a little later than usual. I was in the shower, and I recall hearing my phone ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. The only time I have had that happen before in my life was when my brother was in a motorcycle accident. Seemed like a bad omen. When I finally got out and answered, my brother told me a plane had hit one of the towers. It was all over the news. Looking at the hole in the tower, I thought it was just a mistake. I was even going to go down to work. Then the second plane hit - and everything changed. My brother is a contractor - and he told me to get out of the city, because there was no way those towers stay up after that type of hit. Minutes later - I recall being on the phone when I watched the first tower crumble. I was in shock - I was saying "it?s gone - the tower is actually gone". I used to work down there in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">World</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Financial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></ST1:place. The atrium of my building had a view that looked up right to the towers. I still got my haircut down there. I walked past those towers hundreds of times going to work. Was completely surreal. Started calling everyone I could who worked in NY but lived in NJ - they were going to need a place to sleep. No mass transit was working - there were a few women who I needed to get, and I didn?t want them walking alone, so I walked all the way down the upper west side to midtown and back to get them. People were walking around like zombies - in shock. I recall seeing F-15s circling M<st1:City w:st="on">anhattan</ST1:p o</st1:City>verhead. I overhead people saying how scared that made them. Made me feel good.
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Once I got everyone back to my apartment, I felt I needed to do something. There was a firehouse one block down from my apt, and I used to be a fireman, so I figured they may need some help. When I arrived, they told me I couldn?t ride for legal reasons, but they could sure use the help back at the house. Truck after truck came back - I unpacked and packed hose for over four hours. By the time I was done, there was not an inch of me that was not covered in white dust. Thankfully - every one of that houses guys came back ok. If they were further south, probably a different story. I recall between shifts looking to the south, and seeing this large cloud rise up from downtown. Still couldn?t believe what had happened.<O:p</O:p

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The next day going to work - it was the quietest commute I have ever seen. No one said a work. I saw a guy in a three piece suit carrying a huge American flag as he walked down the street. People applauded. This one too. Getting to my desk - I pulled up something that I will never forget to this day - the US Treasury screen on Bloomberg was blank. The most liquid securities market in the world did not exist at that moment. Cantor Fitzgerald made that market, and they did not exist as a firm in a physical sense at that point any longer. I stared at the screen for at least ten minutes in disbelief.
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Here we are five years later, and I am still not sure what they assholes think they accomplished. Yes - they knocked down two buildings, but other than bombing them into the Stone Age, out foreign policy has not changed one iota. As successful as it was tactically, it was a complete failure strategically. For the most part, the world has given us carte blanche to deal with them in any way we see fit. In the end, am I shocked that in five years we have not killed this piece of shit? Yes. On the other hand, am I shocked that they have not hit us again in five years. Yes, I am.<O:p</O:p
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