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What were you doing at 0846am....
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Sep 11, 2023, 6:53 AM
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...22 years ago?
I was a police officer, and it was my day off. I was sitting at home watching a morning news show, maybe Good Morning America I don't remember, when the first plane hit. It was thought to be an accident at first, while watching the broadcast live, I watched the second plane hit and knew immediately this was more than accident and the United States was under attack. Needless to say, I was glued to my television for the next 48 hours. Believe it or not, I was not called in for duty, but I was placed on standby.
I remember the sense of pride and comradery this Country had in the days and weeks following 9/11. Everyone was buying American flags, and everyone seemed to be under one accord. We supported our military, police, fire and EMS. We had pride in our Country. 9/11 was a sad moment, but it brought all of us Americans together. We all wanted to fight, and we all wanted to hunt down terrorists. In those days and weeks following the attacks, all Americans were one. Skin color, religion, political beliefs, social standing, none of this mattered. Americans mourned for one another, and we had each other's backs. Heck, most of the World mourned and had our back! This was a trying time for America, but it was still great to be an American.
God Bless this GREAT COUNTRY!
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I watched the 60 min show on NYFD, twas very moving.
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Sep 11, 2023, 7:43 AM
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factoid that stuck with me was that the first NYFD death was hit by a jumper. That's one part of the coverage that day that you can't unsee or unhear. As dramatic as the whole thing was, those jumpers from the top of the buildings above the impact was just horrific.
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Re: I watched the 60 min show on NYFD, twas very moving.
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Sep 11, 2023, 7:46 AM
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Yes, this is true. I can remember watching the broadcast live and hearing the bodies thump when they hit the ground and the news anchors explaining what was happening and what the sound was. It was truly one of the saddest moments in my life.
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Changing in the boys locker room at Lexington High.
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Sep 11, 2023, 7:47 AM
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The coaches had a tv in their office. We slowly started gathering around at watching it. I think by the time PE was over, we still thought it was some sort of accident.
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dont be groce***
Sep 11, 2023, 8:31 AM
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Re: What were you doing at 0846am....
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Sep 11, 2023, 7:50 AM
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Last year the wife and I had the opportunity to go to the WTC memorial site and visit the museum in NYC. What a great tribute. Honestly, I could not stop the tears from falling down my face.
I know NYC is not for everyone, but if you can make it to see this memorial, it is very moving.
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Leaving my apartment to go take pigs of a Clemson coed.
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Sep 11, 2023, 7:59 AM
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For an insurance claim. 😉
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In Charlotte getting ready to head to Simpsonville.
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:03 AM
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We were in the process of moving, most stuff was packed, getting ready to close on our new house in Stonehaven.
Called a buddy, wound up meeting him at River Oaks in Duncan and played 18.
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Re: What were you doing at 0846am....
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:03 AM
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Getting ready in the morning at my apartment in Wash. DC. I had only lived there about two weeks. My mom called to tell me, but I thought it was like a little prop plane or something the way she described it. I hollered for my roommate to turn on the TV, and then I heard him yell, "Holy ####!"
From there, the rest of the day was just as crazy as it was for everyone else. I remember going to sleep that night to the sound of fighter jets flying overhead in DC.
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Re: What were you doing at 0846am....
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:05 AM
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I bet it was mass hysteria in DC.
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Re: What were you doing at 0846am....
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:33 AM
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It seemed more like heightened anxiety but also a pretty strong patriotic response as well. I lived just barely outside the city limits in the northeast area of the city so I wasn't near the Pentagon. One of the things I noticed in the DC area was everyone's fear that something else was going to hit, especially there. I remember looking up how to get to safety the best way possible if a nuke or a dirty bomb went off.
I did get to tour the Pentagon crash two months later and sit in on a meeting with Donald Rumsfeld as he talked about the terrorism response. That was pretty surreal.
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Sitting in Science class. The guidance counselor walked in
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:05 AM
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and whispered something in the teacher's ear. I remember him getting wide eyed, looked at her and said "NO"
Then we watched it on the TV the rest of the day.
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Was at the corporate offices in Ohio
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:11 AM
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Of the company I worked for then. 2 days later took my rental car and drive back to SC
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After the first plane hit, I was thinking of the reasons
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:15 AM
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that it may have happened.
Sun glare.
Pilot asleep/incapacitated.
Fog.
Terrorism wasn't even a concept I really grasped outside of the Oklahoma City bombing. Not anymore. We just instinctually assume terrorism as the initial cause of anything tragic.
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Re: After the first plane hit, I was thinking of the reasons
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:23 AM
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Very true.
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Driving to corporate HQ in Columbia for a 9 AM meeting
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:22 AM
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Got there early and saw the secretary for our VP was watching TV instead of whatever she should have been doing. We watched in disbelief as the second plane hit and I knew then it was an organized attack.
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At work in da ATL. Following online. Saying holy sh*t!
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:28 AM
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with every new, shocking development. Wife was preggers with lil’APM.
Phuque the Saudis.
And the fact that the NY Times doesn’t even have this on the front/top of the page today? Shame.
Never forget.
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Sophomore year
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:28 AM
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Roommate woke me up… tried to explain away what I was seeing.
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Walking back to Cope Hall after my 8:00 class in Sirrine
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:31 AM
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Then I was glued to my 30" non-HD tube TV for the rest of the day.
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I miss those days of the short walk to classes.
Sep 11, 2023, 10:36 AM
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I did the Cope-Sirrine stroll too. No 8:00's though. Had one 7:45 am 2/wk one semester, Business Law, teacher was a Greenville lawyer that only wanted to drive over twice a week. I knew a girl that took great notes, I didn't attend often.
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just arriving at work
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:32 AM
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at a large international airport at just before 8am Central Time (9am EDT). A morning not unlike most other days.
While walking to my office, I noticed a friend of mine who worked at the airport Information Desk standing at a restaurant (not opened yet obviously) looking at CNN on the empty bar TV. She said "a plane just hit the World Trade Center in NY". At the time they were saying it was a small plane. Nope. We watched the second plane crash live. And then we got word that it was on. Red alert FAA emergency. All hands on deck.
Little did I know that I wouldn't go home to sleep until about 10am the next day. What a madhouse. Not knowing what the heck was going on all over the country, or what might be coming. About an hour later, ALL air traffic ordered out of the sky no matter where they were or where they were headed. Suddenly, people are landing in a city that wasn't their destination, getting off a plane not knowing what was happening. We were tasked to try and help and support them. But we couldn't tell them any good information because we didn't know ourselves. Immediately all rental cars were gone with quick-thinking people deciding to drive the rest of their trip, and then all hotel rooms in the area taken by the next wave.
Going to Kroger to buy all the snacks and bottled water available to help thousands of stranded people. A bunch of us going to KMart to buy pillows and blankets and sleeping bags for all the people with no where to go and no word on when they could even leave. Grounded planes parked on the tarmac, taxiways, anywhere they could be parked. Evacuating the airport 3 or 4 times that day because of reported unidentified air traffic.
A truly unforgettable day in everyone's lifetime.
The eeriest part was the days later when the airport was closed and cleared out, all flights grounded. Walking the concourses in the middle of the day totally alone, complete silence in what was ordinarily a bustling environment. Looking out and seeing hundreds of planes parked, just sitting there. Knowing the world was changed forever. Honestly, the airline industry has never fully recovered from it.
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Certainly not like the before times. Do you think TSA helps?
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:42 AM
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Amazing the workarounds some places have for TSA. Dublin airport is the best I have seen. But it is crazy to remember there was a time before all of this.
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the shoe thing is the the worst knee-jerk in all of history
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:54 AM
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I can't believe they still make all of us go through that exercise because of one insane idiot trying to put a bomb in his shoes. It (and the other stuff) has made air travel sheer torture. Those of you who don't remember pre 9/11 travel don't know how it has devolved over the years.
I got out of the airport industry 2 years after 9/11 because I got so disillusioned over the changes and reactive oversight. Lost my passion for it. Sad at the time that it happened, but looking back it was for the best for me. I was able to move back closer to home and get out of the city for more of a settled, rural lifestyle that agrees with me.
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Performative security at it's peak. It wouldn't be so bad if
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Sep 11, 2023, 9:13 AM
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they weren't so bad at catching #### that shouldn't be passing through. Makes the honest people suffer and #### all the rest.
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Going to class at Clemson. I think we had an exam, some CE
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class with an Asian teacher. I should remember his name but cannot.
He came in and said something like "two plane hit tower in New York and they fall. Very sad. You still have test."
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Oculus Spirit [85382]
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Taking a calculus exam in Martin hall
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Sep 11, 2023, 8:47 AM
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I met my roommate on the way back to Thornhill Village and he told me to turn the tv on.
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7th grade English class
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Sep 11, 2023, 9:15 AM
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We didn't have a TV so the teacher turned on the radio.
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Re: 7th grade English class
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Sep 11, 2023, 9:18 AM
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You didn't even have one of those tube televisions that could be rolled out with a cart and a bungee cord holding it down?
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It was a mobile classroom that was about 100 yards from
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Sep 11, 2023, 9:19 AM
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the main building so the teacher must have figured that would have taken a while
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Yea we stuck all of our retaards and bad kids in those too.***
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Epic day at work. We finally fired our plant manager after
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Sep 11, 2023, 9:19 AM
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weeks of planning. He was either a drunk who did coke to keep from passing out or a coke head who drank to keep from getting too geeked out. He'd been there for years. I had a fellow co-conspirator (Cassius to my Brutus) and we sad down with drunk guy, had it out and fired him. All while the first plane was hitting.
We emerged from the office walked him out the door, then found a couple people huddled around a small TV in the conference room. Everyone else was chatting about the plane. Then the second one hit and we realized it was for real.
We were in ATL and not too far from the CDC. I was a bit worried that it would be a target too.
I remember that night everyone in town had a candle lit on their front porch. Very moving how [atriotic we were for a few days at least.
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Re: What were you doing at 0846am....
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Just started second year in the Emergency Response Section for a state agency. Couple of guys from the section and I were setting up our remote command center vehicle in a nearby field for the purpose of exercising the equipment. We had just gotten started when boss calls and tells us to turn on the tv. Few minutes later he calls and tells us to pack up and return to office/command center. We all sat around and watched the second plane hit and knew things had changed in a big way. The next year was a series of meeting, planning, reevaluating responses, etc. Took about a year for the money and training to start flowing but it jacked up the CBRN-chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, response community about ten-fold. Got a lot of travel and training opportunities from that. Also, a lot of office time re-writing response plans. Probably even a few raises along the way.
Glad my son was too young to realize what all the tv coverage was about. Or, did he? He's now a full-time fireman.
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2nd day at work at my new job in CHS after moving back
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Columbia. I was late. Nobody cared.
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Skipping Dr. Wolfe's Finance class, accidentally overslept
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Sep 11, 2023, 10:21 AM
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ended up getting canceled because both his Dad and bro worked in the WTC (they ended up being ok) and woke up to my roomie asking me what was going on.
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