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  • Tremors

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    I was working at the Welfare office and heard it on the radio. The TV was turned on so was unable to see it yet. I had to interview with client for food stamps. She was an old pro at getting welfare ,so I thought I would tell her to be nice( I later discovered she had never worked before, her career was having 4 children by the time she was 19) She told me she did not give a _uck about what was happening! Just give me my benefits that is owed to me. That was my memorable moment about 9/11
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    Tao77

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    8:15 10 blocks away had not pleasant conversation with parking enforcement dude, wish him die soon, around 8:30 Two blocks away from Ground Z.
     

    Dawico

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    8:15 10 blocks away had not pleasant conversation with parking enforcement dude, wish him die soon, around 8:30 Two blocks away from Ground Z.
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    rman

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    this guy either killed another man, or witnessed another man's death, in joy, on 9/11.

    4th post in 5 years, he really fucking hated this parking guy.

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    Dawico

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    this guy either killed another man, or witnessed another man's death, in joy, on 9/11.

    4th post in 5 years, he really fucking hated this parking guy.

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    Sounds like he had such a bad experience with the guy that he wished for his death.

    I think thousands of people had a worse morning than that though.
     

    easy rider

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    Sounds like he had such a bad experience with the guy that he wished for his death.

    I think thousands of people had a worse morning than that though.
    I was far too numb thinking about all those that lost their life that day to wish another one dead.
     

    JaguarGolf

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    I was home. I was the captain of an Engine Company in mid-town Manhattan. One of my Lieutenants relieved me the night before. I recovered him in March. We had gone to the '93 together when I was his Lt.
    I saw and heard the first plane that hit the North Tower while I was running uphill the last mile home. It was 30 miles away out over the Hudson River heading south. The engines were changing rpm and it seemed to crab through the sky and have erratic movements.
    Everyone working in my firehouse was lost, everyone working in the other firehouses in our battalion was lost.
     

    Dawico

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    I was home. I was the captain of an Engine Company in mid-town Manhattan. One of my Lieutenants relieved me the night before. I recovered him in March. We had gone to the '93 together when I was his Lt.
    I saw and heard the first plane that hit the North Tower while I was running uphill the last mile home. It was 30 miles away out over the Hudson River heading south. The engines were changing rpm and it seemed to crab through the sky and have erratic movements.
    Everyone working in my firehouse was lost, everyone working in the other firehouses in our battalion was lost.
    Damn. Just damn.
     

    HKaltwasser

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    I was pulling out from my fathers road loaded down with tools headed to work. I scurried on that job to get it done because listening to it on the radio was driving me nuts. It was a weird feeling of having to be some where, do something when I could do nothing. I remember the house I was in and the exact layout that day.

    It was the only incident in my lifetime that has burned into my memory so precisely.
    I'm sure mein Opa felt the same about Pearl Harbor . The only difference is he had a place to target that anger towards a nation state immediately.
     

    Time On Target

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    Ok just to find out if I am the only paranoid person in this group did anyone else grab something out of the safe just in case or was I the only one to want something that would long range do damage if something happened. Repeat after years in oil and gas I was figuring that Houston was a target, and I wasn't sure if the airplane hits were the first round with suicide bombers or attacks coming as well.
     

    easy rider

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    Ok just to find out if I am the only paranoid person in this group did anyone else grab something out of the safe just in case or was I the only one to want something that would long range do damage if something happened. Repeat after years in oil and gas I was figuring that Houston was a target, and I wasn't sure if the airplane hits were the first round with suicide bombers or attacks coming as well.
    Working at the biggest U.S. Naval Shipyard on the west coast, I think I was watching planes when I saw them for months afterwards. I also kept a gun in my car, which I hadn't done much beforehand, luckily it was parked in a government parking garage.
     

    BRD@66

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    Ok just to find out if I am the only paranoid person in this group .....
    Probably not. But I was already @ work & already packing - & not near the safe. My story is same as most here - heard it on car radio then into work where they were already watching reruns of the 1st strike on tv.
     

    busykngt

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    After the second plane hit the tower and realizing it was a terrorist attack, I recall thinking, “okay...how many more?” I knew there couldn’t be an endless supply of these “manned flying bombs” - so I was just in a waiting mode. Thankfully, the FAA ordered the grounding and only the Pennsylvania farm crash seemed to last forever...
     

    Maverick44

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    I was 9, in 4th Grade. We didn't know anything until after school. By that point, WTC 7 was starting to buckle and a couple of hours later it went down. I was too young to fully understand what was going on at the time, but it left it's mark on me just the same.
     

    Longhorn1986

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    I was in exile in NE Ohio and had just been laid off from a job, so I was fishing that morning. I heard a couple of people talking about what happened when I got back to my truck. I turned on the radio and heard the news. I called my parents back in Houston to see what they knew. I was shook up enough that I didn't want to go sit in my apartment alone, so I took my fishing gear, went to another spot and spent most of the day catching small perch and feeding them to a hungry blue heron standing next to me.
     

    DubiousDan

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    On the computer in my den. A friend sent me a message that said "God d**m terrorists". I turned on the TV and the second tower had just been hit. I stayed glued to the TV the rest of the day. The thing that struck me the most was the people jumping from the tower to keep from being burned alive.

    We were near the flight paths of a couple airports and I still recall how eerie it was not to hear the sound of aircraft overhead. A single engine plane was the first I saw after the restrictions were lifted.
     
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