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I was reading a newspaper article that brought up an interesting point. 9/11 was our generations JFK assassination. If you ask your parents they probably still know where they were and what they were doing and where they were when they found out that he had been shot. So I ask you where were you and what were you doing when you heard about the first plane hitting the tower?

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I was listening to Stern while waking up and heard his crew freaking out. Then I turned on the news. Even though it was tape delayed, it felt like it was live. I remember delivering that day and not seeing a plane in the sky. Which is very odd where I live. I remember driving on the freeway past some military bases and seeing the gaurds with machine guns at every exit. I've never been to NY so, in a way, it was very surreal to me. Kind of like a typical east coasters' view on the San Francisco earthquake.

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Not sure if this topic has been brought up. I haven't seen it. Repost from another group.

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I was reading a newspaper article that brought up an interesting point. 9/11 was our generations JFK assassination. If you ask your parents they probably still know where they were and what they were doing and where they were when they found out that he had been shot. So I ask you where were you and what were you doing when you heard about the first plane hitting the tower?

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I was listening to Stern while waking up and heard his crew freaking out. Then I turned on the news. Even though it was tape delayed, it felt like it was live. I remember delivering that day and not seeing a plane in the sky. Which is very odd where I live. I remember driving on the freeway past some military bases and seeing the gaurds with machine guns at every exit. I've never been to NY so, in a way, it was very surreal to me. Kind of like a typical east coasters' view on the San Francisco earthquake.

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I was at work. Watching CNBC. And saw the 2nd one hit live.

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Not sure if this topic has been brought up. I haven't seen it. Repost from another group.

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I was reading a newspaper article that brought up an interesting point. 9/11 was our generations JFK assassination. If you ask your parents they probably still know where they were and what they were doing and where they were when they found out that he had been shot. So I ask you where were you and what were you doing when you heard about the first plane hitting the tower?

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I was listening to Stern while waking up and heard his crew freaking out. Then I turned on the news. Even though it was tape delayed, it felt like it was live. I remember delivering that day and not seeing a plane in the sky. Which is very odd where I live. I remember driving on the freeway past some military bases and seeing the gaurds with machine guns at every exit. I've never been to NY so, in a way, it was very surreal to me. Kind of like a typical east coasters' view on the San Francisco earthquake.

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I had pulled an all nighter coding the backend of my current employers main website. 8 hours or so of staring at the screen, knowing we went live the next day, and worrying I wouldn't make it. My roomates woke up and were watching tv when i heard them start with the 'holy [censored]' comments. I walked out to the living room and was hoping it was just some [censored] up dream...

Add to the fact that I was at Georgetown then, and you could climb to the rooftop apartments, look out, and see the pentagon burning. Complete this with the additional fact that some faculty were on board, and kids around campus who had family on board were just bawling....yeah, not fun...

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I was jerking it in the shower, and getting ready to go to school for 2nd period.

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I was jerking it in the shower, and getting ready to go to school for 2nd period.

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lol

I was pahking tha cah in the habah.

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a few blocks away, walking out of the subway. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Just got out of my International Politics class and was ready to go back to sleep when I turned on CNN. I was at a SUNY school so it was very lucky that none of my residents lost anybody close.

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I was at home sleeping. The phone just kept ringing and I ignored it for a while. Then I realized that something must be wrong, because no one I know would even think to call me before noon.

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i was skateboarding and grinding the rails on top of the world trade center.

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I was jerking it in the shower, and getting ready to go to school for 2nd period.

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lol

I was pahking tha cah in the habah.

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That's unacceptable. And you should know that I have that line trademarked.

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I was listening to Stern while waking up and heard his crew freaking out. Then I turned on the news. Even though it was tape delayed, it felt like it was live. I remember delivering that day and not seeing a plane in the sky. Which is very odd where I live. I remember driving on the freeway past some military bases and seeing the gaurds with machine guns at every exit. I've never been to NY so, in a way, it was very surreal to me. Kind of like a typical east coasters' view on the San Francisco earthquake.

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Heh, listening to Stern here too. Yeah, that was wild.

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only a jew...






just kidding. I'm effectively giving props to you when I use it.

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i was at school in the suburbs, about 1/2 an hour north of the city. i walked into ap chem and my teacher was sitting there crying listening to the radio. 5 minutes later, 1/2 the class was on their cell phones trying to see if their parents/uncles/friends were ok, but almost no one was able to get through to anyone, because all the phone networks were so overloaded.

by the end of the period, we acquired a TV, in time to see the second one fall.

i have no memory of the rest of that day, oddly enough.

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Sleeping. Got a phone call from my Mom crying and telling me to turn on the news.

I thought Bob Dylan had been killed or something.

I ran out to my dorms common area and turned on the tv [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. No one was up yet and everyone who walked by to class started stopping until it was just a bunch of us in shock.

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standing on the end of my block in brooklyn staring at the two buildings. I saw the hole in one of them, before the 2nd plane had hit. then I did something that I will never really understand. I got on the subway and went into the city. I still have no idea why I did this, but that's what I did.

--turnipmonster

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Okay.

By the way, I agreed with you about M-Ramirez and what a punk he is, along with the rest of the Dominican thugs contingent on that team.

But Oswalt is still a little bitch, just like Clemens.

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I was on a bus going to Atlantic City when the planes hit. I could see the black smoke and flames very clearly as we were crossing the Verrazano Bridge. The bus driver asked the passengers if we wanted to continue and of course the consensus was a resounding "yes". We got down to AC and spent the day playing poker and it was very bizarre. We started back to NYC at 6pm and we got back to Queens at 3:30 the next morning. Took us nine hrs for a 3 hr trip because all the tunnels and bridges into NY were basically still "locked down". Our bus was thoroughly searched and all passengers had to show ID. A day I'll never forget.

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Asleep. My roommate woke me between the first and second hits, and I was ready to kill him for waking me up. Until I heard his voice when he said, "Dude, I think you should see this."

I'll definitely never forget it.

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Was at home. Brother came down (was watching TV in his room) and mentioned that a plane had flown into WTC. I thought, wtf, that is sad and people will die but it is just some pilot or technical area. Saw the second plane fly in live. Watched TV non stop for the next 14 hours. Incredibly dramatic and exciting event.

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I was living in Pasadena, CA. Sleeping.

Got a phone call from a girl I worked with at about 6:45 am.

She was in hysterics... talking about a plane running into the tower... I was picturing a little Wright Brothers type plane at first and didn't understand what the big deal was.

Also, I underestimated how many people worked in the towers and how big the destruction was. I was like, "There are probably only a couple hundred people per floor, right?"

Yeesh.

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i was at school in the suburbs, about 1/2 an hour north of the city. i walked into english and my teacher was sitting there crying watching the TV. 5 minutes later, 1/2 the class was on their cell phones trying to see if their parents/uncles/friends were ok, but almost no one was able to get through to anyone, because all the phone networks were so overloaded.

watched the second one fall.


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Very similar experience

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I was picturing a little Wright Brothers type plane at first and didn't understand what the big deal was.


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wow

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Work, a friend called and said a plane went into the tower. I was like, "Yeah, damn cessna or something."

Yeah, so I was wrong. No one got any work done that day, and it was fun hearing the fighters overhead for the rest of the day.

-d

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I was picturing a little Wright Brothers type plane at first and didn't understand what the big deal was.


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Actually, I thought the same thing and was there. I actually went to my office which was closer to the WTC.

wow

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Yknow. Another thing I remember was playing poker online that night. Playing with people from other countries. It was pretty cool how many on there showed their concern for the US. I don't think I've ever seen the chat windows with that much empathy before. It kind of gave you a little more real perspective on just how far it reached.

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I sat in the office preparing presentation of a large offer I was going to present the next day. Was aware at the time that Bush had undermined moderate moslem's power in the Middle East so I had expected terror to increase but not anything like this, so I was shocked.

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Here's how messed up the morale is in local TV news.

I got out of the shower that morning, watched the second plane hit the tower live on the Today Show. At the time, I was thinking about how busy the day was going to be because of this story.

At work though, people realized the silver lining was that we'd be carrying network news all day, so we wouldn't have to do a local newscast. We're all going to hell, no question.

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I don't watch the news or anything in the morning. I got up, drove to work listening to a CD. Sat down and my best friend came up to me (this was around 10:30 Eastern, 7:30 Pacifc) and said "So, terrorism, bad huh" and I'm like "huh, what". Then he explains...

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I was sitting in my 2nd period religion class, 3rd row from the right, 2nd seat from the back. Class had just started when an announcement came over the loudspeaker. Our principal told us that a plane had crashed into the WTC and anyone who had friends or family there could leave class to try to get in touch with them, but that everyone else should stay in class and try to go about things as a normal day. At that point, my teacher ended class and ran out of the room. We found out later that his wife worked in the WTC and was killed that day.

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I had joy in the fact that all my classes were canceled that day. I wasn't proud of it, but that's the truth.

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I was asleep. My buddy was crashing on the couch. I sleep with the radio on and I woke up sometime around 11:30 and I knew something was wrong. I guess I "heard" the report over the radio while I was asleep. I immediately jumped out of bed and ran into the living room where my buddy had just been woken up by his parents (they are from New York). I turned on the TV and we watched for several hours as his parents frantically called relatives in New York to make sure no family members were there, which they weren't.

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Don't know where you guys are from, but Im guessing not near NY? I find it really obvious who is from around the area and who isn't when the topic is discussed because people from farther away are much more detached and don't seem to understand it on the same level as those who were closer. Just an observation.

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About 90 miles from NY. Knew tons of people from NY, I think you are maybe generalizing a bit.

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About 90 miles from NY. Knew tons of people from NY, I think you are maybe generalizing a bit.

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Saying that you're 90 miles from NY is very different than saying that you're 90 miles from, say, Kansas City.

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About 90 miles from NY. Knew tons of people from NY, I think you are maybe generalizing a bit.

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Saying that you're 90 miles from NY is very different than saying that you're 90 miles from, say, Kansas City.

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OK, then 95%+ of the nation is not 'close' to NY. I consider myself close.

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About 90 miles from NY. Knew tons of people from NY, I think you are maybe generalizing a bit.

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I'd say it's a decent generalization, my friends all live in Long Island, which is even closer (you could smell ground zero from there for a few days after). None of them have any reference to what it was like. Again it go's back to that thread a few weeks back, about New York and New Yorkers, you truly have to be here to understand the dynamics of everything that happened that day.

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i was at a lunch table in high school when there were rumors of how a building in nyc got knocked down by some sort of terrorist act. i didnt think much of it other than eww that sucks.

then at the next period or the period after we had a television in our classroom and were watching the reporting story about it on television. it took a while for me to realize the magnitude of the situation.

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Don't know where you guys are from, but Im guessing not near NY? I find it really obvious who is from around the area and who isn't when the topic is discussed because people from farther away are much more detached and don't seem to understand it on the same level as those who were closer.

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I think that's a gross generalization.

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Had just moved into a new house 2 days before and no cable or radio set up. Got ready for work, went to 7-11 for coffee and the TV was on. Saw the first tower burning. Went home told the wife, we both went to work. She's in the tallest building in downtown SanDiego and there was still 1 plane unaccounted for so they sent her home.

poster that said non-NYers don't really get it is probably right. We'd spent some time in the city and my wife had spent a few days working in the towers when we were living in upstate NY... and I'm still "disconnected" from it.

ThisHo..

and yes... this is absolutely without a doubt our "where were you when JFK was shot" moment

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Not sure if this topic has been brought up. I haven't seen it. Repost from another group.

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I was asleep. Went to work listening to various radio stations, and watched streaming video/listened to the radio all day before going home.

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I've never been to NY so, in a way, it was very surreal to me. Kind of like a typical east coasters' view on the San Francisco earthquake.


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Yeah, Loma Prieta is definitely more vivid for me. Took off from work early, and was just settling in to watch the WS on TV. Next thing, I'm practically on the floor, and crap is falling off the shelves.