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Post by msdemos on Sept 11, 2017 14:10:06 GMT
SAVE FERRIS
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Sept 11, 2017 14:13:48 GMT
I was watching a re-run of the cartoon series Reboot on Nickelodeon before I went to sleep, when a scrolling message came on the screen with important news, which I didn't quite manage to catch. The next day, I was at school and the other children were discussing the attacks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 17:35:47 GMT
I was at school when it happened and class was interrupted by the school radio announcing the incident. I also remember gas prices going up to about $10 a gallon that day very briefly.
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Post by kuatorises on Sept 11, 2017 18:29:32 GMT
I was in one class when it happened, I don't remember the subject, but we had not heard yet. I was not aware until I arrived at my next class when one of my friends informed me. It was a marketing class. We did not learn anything that day, just talked about what was happening.
I also had a doctor's appointment later that day.
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Post by Nora on Sept 11, 2017 21:37:46 GMT
I was at home in Europe, working on a computer, and had the tv on in the background. They were showing the tower in flames and I thought it was a part of an action movie. Only when the bit was repeated several times in the row I realized this is maybe not a movie… very shocking. Especially since I was supposed to fly to the USA on the 14th. Will never forget that flight… a lot of scared/crying people aboard.
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Post by jessica on Sept 11, 2017 22:10:59 GMT
I was at school in my 7th grade English class when i found out,i believe we discussed it for the rest of the day.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 10:42:38 GMT
The 9th of November in 2001 was on a friday
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Post by Sandman on Sept 12, 2017 18:14:10 GMT
I was at work and heard it on the radio. I got on the P.A. System and said anyone with access to a radio or TV turn them on. All hell is breaking out.
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 12, 2017 23:57:06 GMT
I heard it as it happened on the radio, then I drove to work, which was located about 60 miles from NYC. My boss was freaking out (as usual). She was certain the terrorists had the town where we worked next on the list, because there were phone towers there. She stepped out to shop for some provisions before she rushed home "to die with [her] children." She told me to stay and lock up, since I was unmarried and had no kids. While she was out, my co-worker, a first-class idiot, started giggling and doing a dance while she chanted "The twin towers fell down! The twin towers fell down!" We had a one-hour photo place in the store where I worked, and I remember in the next day or so, one or two people (many of our customers worked in NYC)came in to develop photos which included shots of sidewalks on which some of the people had landed after jumping from the towers--they actually took pictures of this. A lot more people, however, came in to reprint photos to use for "Missing" posters, which were hung up around the vicinity of lower Manhattan. None of those people in the posters, needless to say, were ever located.
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Post by rmcrae on Sept 14, 2017 2:51:09 GMT
My mom was driving me to school (I was a high school freshman) when we heard about the first plane hitting one of the Towers on the radio. When I got to homeroom we were told about the second plane. We had two classes, but after lunch I went to my History class and my teacher wheeled in a TV and we watched the coverage for the rest of the day. It was surreal.
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Post by itsmagic on Sept 14, 2017 9:40:40 GMT
traffic slightly delayed me on my way to the pentagon (tech and d.o.d. contractor). when the first plane hit the wtc, i knew we were
under attack (no competent pilot would run into the towers). i rerouted my work temporarily. i was in arlington when the
jet screamed overhead. i saw the pentagon burning
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 10:13:57 GMT
My situation was unique in the sense that I saw the second attack live at school.
I was 15 years old. To get an easy credit, I was working in the library checking books in and out for younger kids. It was some kind of elective.
Anyway, the actual librarian used this hour to sit and watch the NEWS every morning, eating wheat thins and sipping coffee. She screamed, "Hey, some plane crashed into one of the twin towers. The world trade center!"
So I walked to her office where they were showing the tower burning. We all thought it was an accident. They weren't sure at the time what happened. As we were trying to figure out why a plane crashed into the tower the second plane whizzed by on the screen and crashed into the second tower. That traumatized me for a long time. Knowing people were at their desk working and a terrorist just suicide bombed them.
They made us turn off the news and the principal told the teachers and staff to not show the news to the students. I remember sitting in Freshman English wondering if they were attacking more. Then they told us the Pentagon was hit. The kids were going from one extreme to another. One kid was saying it was just a small terrorist attack and it would be under control soon, some kids were saying it was the beginning of World War III, others were saying "Repent, Jesus is about to come back. This is the sign of the end times" and some kids were saying it was predicted by Nostradamus.
Anyway, after that I just watched it over and over. My parents were worried because I watched nothing but footage online, on tv, survivors stories, and stories about people who were talking to their loved ones right before they died. This lasted about a month before my Dad made me focus on something else. Now, I don't even think about it anymore. It's so weird how something can consume your life for a brief time, then you don't even think about it.
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Post by miike80 on Sept 14, 2017 10:46:17 GMT
I'm from Europe, i was at a friend's house, we were preparing to play some playstation( was 21 at the time, not that i don't play anymore:)) My friend was in the kitchen eating and i was zapping channels on tv. When i saw it on TV i called him but he thought i was joking. we only watched the news for the rest of the day
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Post by theauxphou on Jan 24, 2018 1:56:00 GMT
I watched it live on the late-night news with Sandra Sully. The programme after it, "Sports Tonight", was cancelled.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Jan 24, 2018 3:29:52 GMT
An interview with the author of a Howard Hughes book by Matt Lauer (yeah, that guy) was the last thing before the biggest breaking news of my lifetime soon followed.
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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on Jan 24, 2018 6:46:29 GMT
While she was out, my co-worker, a first-class idiot, started giggling and doing a dance while she chanted "The twin towers fell down! The twin towers fell down!" Wtf One of the muslims The Donald says he saw dancing and celebrating on the news? One of five dancing Israeli's that were arrested that day then released?? or like you said, a first class idiot, but man..😶
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 6:51:06 GMT
I was on lunch break at work when I found out. As someone above said, the clip had to replay a few times before I realized it wasn't a disaster movie someone had put on. We were all honestly speechless.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 25, 2018 3:22:12 GMT
i lived in northern Westchester and worked in the highbridge section of the Bronx. my father worked 5 blocks away from ground zero and used the parking lot 1 block away from the site.
it was my first year of teaching. my first full week of teaching to be exact. the principal came to our classrooms and yanked a couple of teachers at a time and brought us into the hall. there she told us about the two planes. she said that when the first plane hit it might have been an accident but when the second one hit we knew it was deliberate.
so one by one the kids are being picked up.
later on, when i have only a few kids left, the administration says i can go home... it took me three hours to do a one hour drive. however, i did notice how nice of a day it looked. i get home and seconds later my mom comes home. i see her and burst into tears and we hug.
heartwarming: this was catholic school and i had set up a small prayer area. i didn't tell them what was really going on but for the first time a few of the kids were actually using the prayer area. it was really sweet.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 25, 2018 3:33:56 GMT
my sister was in college at Maryland and driving somewhere and stopped at a light when a buddy from her ROTC class rushes up to her window and tells her to turn on the radio.
the plane just hit the pentagon. they described it as if a slice was taken out of a cake.
eerie... eventually [and unfortunately she no longer works there nor lives in the area] she and her husband worked at the pentagon along with my other brother in law. [her husband was kind of pissed that she was coming there to work as he and other bil had gotten accustomed to going out to lunch together and eating good, wholesome junk food.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 25, 2018 10:21:12 GMT
I remember it was on TV in the background, and I was a dumb kid so I didn't realize the gravity of what was happening (I didn't even know what the WTC were). Then my older brother woke up, saw it, and started waking up the rest of the family.
However, my family says this isn't how things went down... You didn't say the memories had to be true. But it's strange because the above is vividly how I remember it.
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