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49willys_mogon said:
9/11 Never Forget :usa:

Our Generations Pearl Harbor. Lots of parallels. Good or bad they pulled us into their wars for their selfish ambitions
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When I was a kid my grandma used to tell me all the time how she and her friends could always remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they got news Pearl Harbor was bombed or when Kennedy was shot. At the time things like that always felt like stuff that happened a long time ago and I would never experience in my lifetime. Then 9/11 happened.
 
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I was the second one to show up for work that morning and the service writer asked me if I had seen what was going on. He turned on the TV and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I remembered that story about the bomber that hit the empire state building. About that time the second plane hit. We did do some work, but not our usual.

I remember this and I remember the challenger explosion happening.

One of the things I distinctly remember though was going to the local airport restaurant for lunch and it being absolutely quiet. We would normally go to lunch there on fridays and usually its busy. Its a small local airport, but there is always something landing or taking off or flying around. After 911, it was just dead quiet.
 
FJC11 said:
IIRC it lasted three days before the democrats shit all over the unity we had, the world changed that day and not for the good.
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Yeah, by the weekend, once the source was beginning to be identified, there was already some clamoring in the media about “brown racism” and “Muslim hate” that was basically non-existent until they started reporting it as “widespread”.
 
FJC11 said:
IIRC it lasted three days before the democrats shit all over the unity we had, the world changed that day and not for the good.
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That got the snowball started. It's been rolling down hill ever since and now it's a massive ball of fucktardness, hatred, stupidity, wokness and general cocksuckery, that has become the liberal/ democratic mindset
 
Joez said:
Junior in HS here. Every 2nd Tuesday of the month was a delayed start for us. I remember watching WGN news that morning like I always did, when they cut to tower 1 burning. Watched tower 2 get hit live. Called my buddy who I rode the bus with, who didn't pick up, so I ran down to his house before the bus picked us up to make sure he was watching the same thing. Was tough to leave the TV and get on the bus.

That day we spent almost the entire day with the TV's on watching it unfold at school. I'll never forget how eerie it was that day and the next how empty the skies were, especially living so close to Chicago. I'll never forget standing at the corner waving American flags with a bunch of other teenage kids, or ordering American Fries at McDonald's as patriotismran high everywhere. I'll never forget how many friends joined the armed forces that year and the next, how many went overseas, and how many never came back. I'll never forget those who did come back, only to be forever changed, and who subsequently took their own lives later as their country and government turned their backs on them. I haven't forgotten, and I never will, even if I have a lot more questions around the events that unfolded on live TV that day now than I had then....
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I was a junior in HS as well. Mr. Terry still made us take our test in algebra 2 that day. Fuck you Mr. Terry
 
Active Duty KC10 Boom Operator. I was in the bathroom getting ready for some bs training. I could see the reflection of the bedroom tv in the mirror.

at first I thought it was some movie until I came out and turned up the volume.

called my squadron and was told that training was canceled and I was to report ASAP. Spent the next few days making sure everyone‘s deployment requirements were up to date.

departed on 9/19 for Diego Garcia where I spent the next few months flying tanker support for pre and post strike bombing missions.
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Grnd93 said:
Active Duty KC10 Boom Operator. I was in the bathroom getting ready for some bs training. I could see the reflection of the bedroom tv in the mirror.

at first I thought it was some movie until I came out and turned up the volume.

called my squadron and was told that training was canceled and I was to report ASAP. Spent the next few days making sure everyone‘s deployment requirements were up to date.

departed on 9/19 for Diego Garcia where I spent the next few months flying tanker support for pre and post strike bombing missions.
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Nice BUFF.
 
AKnate said:
Was a nice SUMMER day, pretty hot still.
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Here, too. I started work at 10 am, and had the top off the TJ and listened to Howard Stern all the way to work. I listened to the show while getting ready, had just gotten out of the shower when the first plane hit.

Stopped at the store as usual to pick up the newspapers, the store had the news playing over the speakers. Got to work and everyone is in the breakroom watching the news. A few guys crying, other than that very oddly quiet. Managers eventually told us we were free to leave if we weren't comfortable staying. I worked at Progressive selling policies, the phones weren't ringing anyways and the screens that showed how many calls were waiting were at zero.

My nephew had a school project a few years ago and asked what I remembered. There was a sliding door out of my bedroom onto a deck, I'd throw a blanket down and watch the sky before going back in and falling asleep. Except that night there were no planes flying over, just stars.

Work was slow for about a week, little pockets of calls here and there before it picked up again.

I also wonder what it will take to get us united like that again. I'm not sure I'm going to like the answer though.
 
Sad day, it was great to see footage of all LEO and FF working together in helping everyone as much as possible not knowing it may or may not be their last moments.

Across multiple wildlandf fire camps, there are moment of silence as well as American flag/twin towers photo part of the ICP paper/briefing.

I'm glad the memory of it being discussed, shared, seen on TV and anywhere else just as any other past major incident to keep reminding us of our American History and hopefully still continue to do so for years to come
 
I lived in NY at the time and was in elementary school, my dad was in NYC for work, like any other day, and he had co workers in the towers that day. I know people who lost their lives that day and it makes me angry.

I understand that other things went down with the gov that was sketchy. I try to focus 9/11 on the loss of lives and other days to recognize the gov is fucked up and will kill their own for personal benefit.
 
I was in high school, and these events shaped my 16 year (and going) Marine Corps career when I would join 2 years after graduating. 2 of my 16 years of it in the middle east - Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Lots of thoughts, many of which have already been articulated by some of the other replies here.
 
22 years ago I was 11 years old on that morning. My classmates and I were gathered up by our elementary teachers and staffs into the lobby at Illinois School for the Deaf. They rolled up a cart with the large tube tv and frantically running through channels to find news reporting what's going on in NYC. I certainly did not understood the severity of the disaster at the time. I was picked up by my mom to go home early shortly after.

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I was a junior in HS as well. Mr. Terry still made us take our test in algebra 2 that day. Fuck you Mr. Terry
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I didn't realize so many of us were so close in age around here...

I was in my sophomore year and remember coming upstairs to go to school and seeing the news then having to leave for school about 5 minutes after the second plane hit. I distinctly remember going to my second period Spanish class with an exchange teacher from Spain who said that no matter what the administration said, this was important to watch so we did all day. When one or two of the typical fuckoffs piped up trying to make jokes, I have never seen a teacher shut anyone down so fast - had a lot more respect for her after that day.
 
I was in the 5th grade, and I remember my teacher coming in all frazzled saying something about a plane crashing into the pentagon. Didnt say anything about the twin towers.
Being a 10 year old country bumpkin from the midwest, I dont think I'd ever heard of any of them before then anyway...
We spent the rest of the day in the library, watching it on tv
 
Was driving to work when news broke. Was putting up some portable classrooms at a high-school near a navy base. We all left our radios blasting the coverage all day. Didn't see any footage till that night well after dark.

I still :mad3::mad3::mad3::mad3: To this day.
 
I have never seen a HEAT map of where the poor people who worked in the building and died had their office/cubicle locations. Were most of them above? Did some from lower floors nver get out?
 
plym49.2 said:
I have never seen a HEAT map of where the poor people who worked in the building and died had their office/cubicle locations. Were most of them above? Did some from lower floors nver get out?
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If you read the stories the port authority (cops) told them to stay that everything was going to be taken care of. shots of the day showed people jumping rather than burn
 
I had pulled into work a little early so I sat in my truck and enjoyed my coffee when they broke into the music and reported the first plane. I like some others figured it was a small plane hitting it in some fog or what not.

A few min later it was more accurately reported and I started getting mad, couldn't find out a thing during work and rushed home to see the blow by blow on the news, I was so angry I was crying. I stayed up way too late watching and called in sick the next day.

That transcript got me hard in the feels, even now all these years later some things will still bring me to tears.
 
Bump. Random YT suggestion, some of the best 9/11 footage I’ve seen.

That poor soul at the 8:30 mark, RIP :mad3:

 
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