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9/11 ???

Aztngundoc22Aztngundoc22 Member Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭
edited September 2018 in General Discussion
OK :

I know we all remember well : where was U when U heard ???

Thanks !!!
The more people I meet : The more I like my Dog :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!! :o :?
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In my Team room at Ft Bragg. I wasn't home for more than 4 months at a time for the next 6 years.

    I will never forget when the 1st plane hit I said "that cannot be an accident".
    RLTW

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  • Mark GMark G Member Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alexandria Va. just south of DC when I heard about the first tower getting hit. Next stop for me was at Reagan National Airport just across the river from the Pentagon. As I drove up the GW Parkway I could see the smoke rising but couldn't make out where it was coming from. As I pulled into Reagan the crash trucks were heading out and it was then that I was told to leave the area as the airport was being shut down. They had most of the side roads shut down so we had to take the main roads which put us right next to the Pentagon. I saw it on fire and all the burned people gathered on the grass next to it. It was a slow drive to get out of the city. I made it home 8 hours later. Cell phones weren't working so my wife had no idea where I was. All she knew was I was going to DC. It was about 2PM when I finally got a call to go thru. There were fighter jets flying over head and trucks with machine guns stationed at various parts of the city. Truly a day that I will never forget.
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Working in Jacksonville on 8th st
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NYC
    Stayed a while.
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  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • Aztngundoc22Aztngundoc22 Member Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK :

    One of those days I will never forget !

    My wife (@ the time) & her daughter was out riding around ? Just seeing things in the area with a day off work ? Never even had the readio on in the car : stopped in a local BBQ place to eat : they had a t.v. on : I got so upset that I got sick : we left there & I went to the local marine recruiters station to re-enlist ( They wouldnt let me ) : went home , My wife was so mad @ me for wanting to go kill some rag-heads ?
    I day to remember !!!

    Thanks !!!
    The more people I meet : The more I like my Dog :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


    I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!! :o :?
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,484 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was at a training session where I was a presenter concerning juvenile justice issues. I was presenting a section on Juvenile Detention standards and procedures for detaining delinquents in our jurisdiction. In attendance that day were most of the local law enforcement officers, school administrators, mental health workers and other agencies that worked with youths.

    There were several of us.presenting that day and just as we were starting, the first reports came that a plane had hit the first tower. When news of the second tower strike happened, the Judge in charge of the training called us together and we made an announcement of what had occurred and cancelled the training.

    Right about that point, all the cell phones started to ring....it was really eerie....
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was watching Fox TV as the first report of a plane hitting the first tower came on. I had an appointment to see my doctor that morning. At the clinic the nurses were watching it on TV as I got there. As I was leaving the second plane had hit. I went home and did not sleep until late the next day. Stayed up watching it all night. I think I must know how people felt about the Japs attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. I feel the same way today. Islam must die.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Aztngundoc22
    OK :

    I know we all remember well :



    It doesn't appear everyone remembered well. It was only about 6 years later that this country elected a muslim president after we were attacked by muslims.

    Anyway...that morning I was walking a group of people though a new federal courthouse in Alabama that the company I worked for had overseen the construction of when I got a phone call from my wife giving me the news.
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  • laylandadlaylandad Member Posts: 961 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was asleep in my barracks when the first plane hit the towers. Being 14 hrs ahead in Okinawa, it was damn near the 12th when it happened. The duty NCO woke everyone up in the barracks. Those that were sober went to draw weapons from the armory. I do remember having this empty pit feeling in my stomach. I can't describe it. Shortly thereafter,we began doing work ups in the Pacific area, then on to AFG.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remember the muslims celebrating.


    Trump was spot on when he said they celebrated when the towers collapsed.

    I for one will never forget or forgive.
    RLTW

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  • ChrisStreettChrisStreett Member Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...had just stopped to grab a coffee, the TV was on in the bagel shop, saw the replay over and over. Grabbed my gear and started heading back in listening to, of all people, Howard Stern...not a single joke was being told. The interstate was completely deserted, very eerie feeling, like being the last person on the planet. Was one of the last vehicles thru the tunnels under the Balto. harbor as they were being shut down.
    ...can't say I didn't have a thought or two about laying my crosshairs on a raghead.
    "...dying ain't much of a living boy"-Josey Wales
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  • Aztngundoc22Aztngundoc22 Member Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK :

    Smitty : Im sorry : I should have said that US normal ( non-democrat ) regular real persons remembered : Not the idiots that elected the Muslim
    !!!

    Most of US remember that day on a regular basis !

    As said : I found out all I needed to know about Muslims in 5 minutes on 09/11/2001 !!!!

    Thanks !!!
    The more people I meet : The more I like my Dog :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


    I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!! :o :?
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It was a sad day for the US of A.

    3,000 plus people died, and we used it as an excuse to go gallivanting around the world destabilizing governments in a manner that has resulted in the deaths of 100s of thousands more.

    Additionally, we used it as an excuse to vastly increase the size, scope, and power of our government domestically; a power that was abused by the two previous administrations, and will not doubt be (if not already) abused by the current and future administrations and Congresses.

    I don't for a minute believe it was a false flag operation, but the response certainly fell into the classic big government mantra of never letting a good crisis go to waste.

    Never forget to be alert and prepared.

    Also, never forget the debacle that our entire response to the attack has been.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was on the phone, on hold with USAA and they were playing the NEWS rather than music. I heard something about a plane crashing into the Twin Towers. I turned on Fox and moments later I saw the second plane hit LIVE. At the time I had just moved into my buddies townhouse, my first wife had left me two weeks previous so I was already a mess, then all of this happened. Was a heavy time.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Working at the Watervliet Arsenal.....they locked it down and threw all nonessential civilian personnel off the post. We were allowed back five days later.....a different atmosphere....regular troops shaking down all vehicles and everybody in them.

    Interesting side note..one of the civilian office cleaners forgot his cell phone and climbed over the fence to go back and retrieve it.....almost got his * shot by patrolling Army troops....oh...he was fired...
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,286 ******
    edited November -1
    Youngest daughter was driving on the George Washington parkway on 9/11/2001 when foreigners crashed a plane into the Pentagon.
    Oldest daughter was working at Va. Tech April 16, 2007 when a foreigner massacred 32 people.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    was at work, running a lathe with a 24ft long, 5inch diameter heat treated high carbon alloy shaft in it, 3 steady rests. at first plane crash news filtered in, all i could think of was the B25 that crashed into the Empire State Building....then the 2nd hit and we all knew it wasn't an accident.
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  • 204targetman204targetman Member Posts: 3,493
    edited November -1
    Was sitting in road construction traffic in my work truck. Turned the radio on. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Remember it being a beautiful day. Cool and not a cloud in the sky. And a Tuesday I believe.
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  • 204targetman204targetman Member Posts: 3,493
    edited November -1
    Was sitting in road construction traffic in my work truck. Turned the radio on. Couldn't believe what I was hearing. Remember it being a beautiful day. Cool and not a cloud in the sky. And a Tuesday I believe.
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  • NavybatNavybat Member Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was asleep in Hawaii when I got a call from the duty officer telling me not to come to base that morning, because it was locked down. MCAS Kaneohe. Four months later my squadron was deployed to the Gulf. I spent a lot of time over Afghanistan and later Iraq.
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  • DPHMINDPHMIN Member Posts: 953 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was in Brest, Belarus. I just happened to turn the shortwave radio on to VOA. They were discussing the first tower being hit by an airplane. I thought they were discussing a novel or Hollywood movie. As I listened, they reported that the second tower had been hit.

    It's a day I'll probably never forget.
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was at work , ( state run mental hospital ) . The tv was on and some of my patients were watching the today show when it happened . Spent the rest of the day watching
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • Toolman286Toolman286 Member Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I called HQ to see about responding to NYC & was told that we would be on stand-by due to the overwhelming response already there. We went to an overlook & it was a very sour feeling to stand there and not be able to help. The crowd there was in complete silence & there are no appropriate words that can describe it.
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