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Old 09-14-2009, 05:45 PM   #1
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I was in my home office and I got a call from my office in Arlington, VA, down the street from the Pentagon. One of my co-workers was at a starbucks and saw the plane approach the building, he said you could hear the engines winding up to full power as they made impact. He said they hit at full throttle. He said the fireball and explosion was huge. The rest of the day I was tuned in to the tube. My young sons who had visited the tower a week or so eailer said..."That is fake, right dad?" No son, its real. He cried for a while and it was 3 years before I could get him into a plane and it was a white-knucle drill for the first few flights.

IMO most of this country nor the current admin still does not have a full grasp of the kind of people we are dealing with.
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Old 09-14-2009, 06:50 PM   #2
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I was in my office at work when I got a call from my wife about it. After that I was sitting in my office with my Admin Assistant waiting for word on her parents who had flown out of Boston that morning. Only to find out just before noon that her parents were on the second aircraft that flew into the towers. Her father had just retired a few days earlier.

It was also my wife's birthday.
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Old 09-15-2009, 03:25 AM   #3
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Heading for NYC for a meeting with the Port Authority on the 72nd floor of Tower 2. I was working for an imaging company and we did all the scanning and indexing for the Port Authority. We had something like 25 servers at 2 Broadway as the processing facility. I remember I got as far as New Haven and all the trains had been shut down. I went home thinking how if I had gone to NYC on Monday, 9/11 was a Tuesday, I would be dead.

No boat, back in the suds.
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