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Remembering 9/11. Never Forget

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It was my first year on faculty at Valdosta State, and I was preparing to teach a soils lab when the students came in with the news. It was an eerie lab session.

One of my coworkers was from NYC and he has a brother who works for the NYPD. He spent the entire day frantically trying to get in touch with his brother.
 
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My most enduring memory is one of relief. I knew my family was fine, but I had a great friend (who a few years later introduced me to Mrs. UR) who lived outside Boston and was traveling frequently to see her sister in NYC. As I sat in the basement watching TV, blowing off work, I tried calling her at home but got a busy signal. I'm in tears now remembering the relief and joy I felt knowing that she was OK. If she was on the phone at home, she couldn't be on a plane!
 
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I watched live on tv as a plane hit the second tower. We learned a few days later a buddy was on that plane. His picture is mounted on the wall in my office, as well as one in our family room. We will never forget 9/11.
 
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I had just finished my morning sportscasts on the Radio PA Network (PA native Ed McCaffrey had broken his leg in the Monday Night Football game) and was sipping a coffee at my desk when the images of the first tower burning came up on the TV.

As soon as the 2nd plane hit I said "Bin Laden" aloud and then watched in disbelief as the events unfolded.

When we got the word that Flight 93 had gone down I was on the way to Shanksville, armed with a cell phone, a tape recorder and some petty cash.

I spent the rest of the day at "Murtha International Airport" covering press conferences held by airport and FBI officials and filing reports for our network and a number of radio stations around the country.

Johnstown was virtually shut down, but I was able to find a hotel room, an open dollar store where I bought a change of clothes and other necessities, and a restaurant that stayed open.

The next day was a whirlwind of pressers in Shanksville. The FBI took us by bus to the crash site - nothing but a smoking hole in the ground. The site looked virtually identical when I returned a year later to cover the 1st anniversary.

One humorous note on that day of horror was watching the female TV reporters trying to dodge the cow pies as they walked through the farm fields in their heels. :rolleyes:
 
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SteveP said:
As soon as the 2nd plane hit I said "Bin Laden" aloud and then watched in disbelief as the events unfolded.
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With the USS Cole attack still fresh on my mind, I had a hard time understanding why I felt like I was the only person who knew it was bin Laden as soon as it became appearant that it was a terrorist attack.

Granted, I was a junior in high school at the time, so I was absolutely surrounded by idiots.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
With the USS Cole attack still fresh on my mind, I had a hard time understanding why I felt like I was the only person who knew it was bin Laden as soon as it became appearant that it was a terrorist attack.

Granted, I was a junior in high school at the time, so I was absolutely surrounded by idiots.
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You have advanced so far, so fast, Grasshopper! ;) :D
 
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It was a Tuesday and I had just climbed out of the shower to get ready for work. I think I was trying to get the weather when they showed the impact. As I watched they showed the second one. As I drove to work they hit the Pentagon. I am still amazed to this day that I was the only one that was totally freaked about the Pentagon. I figured we were a goner if they worked out how to hit our nerve center.

At work we had news trickle in. Saw patients all day but hardly anyone came in that didn't have an update. Pilot Oganowski was from our town. All of us at work had someone we knew or someone one of our loved ones knew that was lost. We lost some of our patients or their family members. Someone brought a TV in on lunch so we could watch what was going on.

Since then I have seen many folks who were deeply affected, one who had been scheduled to fly and switched out, passengers who were ticketed but either switched or changed flights.

A few years ago my family flew to London and then out of Glasgow. This was the year they bombed London and then the Glasgow airport. I thought about 9/11 until I was safe through my door.
 
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