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09-11-2012, 08:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,885
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I will always remember standing under the sag. during the no fly time and thinking about how I would get off the cape if bridge was blown up. Didn't feel like things would ever feel remotely the same.
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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09-11-2012, 08:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
Posts: 8,555
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I have to admit its still a day of hate for me. No matter where the remembering starts off , it always ends in thoughts of hate for those who did it.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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09-12-2012, 08:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Marshfield, Ma
Posts: 2,150
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I attended the monthly Stellwagen Bank Charter Boat Association meeting last night (along with a few other guys from this site) and the guest speaker was Bob Jenkins (owner of Local Hooker Rods). Before Bob spoke about his company and his rods, he informed the group that 11 years ago yesterday morning, he was in Tower 1 on the 42nd floor when the first plane hit the tower. He was in the video conferencing business on a sales call that day and happened to be meeting with a company in the WTC. As he talked about the horror, panic, composure, disbelief, decision making, heroism etc, etc that he witnessed that day, the room was obviously silent and in awe. One part of his recount of that day was that it took 30 minutes for him to go down just 9 flights of stairs as there were so many people trying to go down a stairwell full of smoke, burst water pipes and dripping jet fuel. When he reached the 31st floor, a NYFD Captain and Lieutenant were storming up the stairwell to try and reach the impact floors. He said they were racing up the stairs as everyone was racing down. Both of those men died that day trying to save lives.
I will never forget that day 11 years ago, nor will I forget last night and Bob’s recount of his experiences.
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"I know a taxidermy man back home. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him!"
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09-12-2012, 10:37 AM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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I was in college that day, and was woken by my roommate calling me in a panic that I had to turn on the tv. I hung up on him and went back to sleep, but he kept calling. I picked up the phone and will never forget the 4 words he spoke to me..."WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" I remember turning on the tv right before the 2nd plane hit. I went out into the hallway of my dorm and all I could hear were tv's at full volume, all doors open. I went to Westfield State, which wasn't far from the Air Force Base, and the sight of fighter jets of all sorts doing flyby's and scrambling into formations is something I won't ever forget. I still, 11 years later look up if I think a plane sounds too loud. God Bless and keep all those lost from that day forward.
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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09-12-2012, 10:47 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Lots of us will never forget
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
Last edited by The Dad Fisherman; 09-12-2012 at 10:54 AM..
Reason: This is a thread for reflection and rememberance....not complaining
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09-12-2012, 10:58 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,207
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I remember I was waiting for a limo to pick me up from work to take me to the airport. Was heading to the UK for a few days to help out the office there. I remember my wife calling me in tears telling me "Do Not Get On That Airplane"....
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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09-12-2012, 11:07 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,852
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I was in the City headed for the Towers when the first plane hit. I worked for a company that did high end doc imaging and the Port Authority along with New York City Transit were my customers. Both had offices in the Tower.
Took me forever to get home and I was back there 2 days later with an armed escort down to 2 Broadway to see what was left of 50 file servers we had at NYCT.
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No boat, back in the suds. 
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09-13-2012, 08:33 PM
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Work hard. Fish harder.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 764
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NEVER FORGET!
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09-14-2012, 06:55 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fish360
NEVER FORGET!
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NEVER FORGIVE
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