Sixteen years later. I was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico when the radio chatter started getting real busy with stuff about planes smashing into NY...sketchy info at best. I was on my way to port (11 hours). When I got there I walked off the boat. called the office and told em I quit, payed $300 for a taxi home, and checked into a hotel to get the TV to go with my internet.
I expected us to be American's after an attack.....
I was sadly mistaken.
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I was at home spending the day playing Red Baron 3D. My wife was taking our young son to get his first haircut and visiting her mother. Took a quick break to check this forum and saw some early posts about a terrorist attack in New York, but thought it was nothing, maybe a car bomb or something similar. Living in London all my life I was used to the occasional terrorist attack. Just the world being the world.
Then my wife rang me and told me to switch on the TV.
Spent the rest of the day glued to the TV in disbelief.
We are visiting New York in a few weeks. I'll be visiting the 911 memorial to pay my respects
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Never Forget.
RIP to all of those who died on 9/11
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I was driving north on the M74 just north of Moffat on the steep bank and had just come off the telephone to a friend in Canada arranging a trip over for a long weekend for a birthday party. After the call, when I turned on the radio to hear this news of the first aircraft to hit the twin towers, shocking to say the least, when I got in to the house an hour or so later and seen the horror of it all.
It was the UK's worst terrorist incident too, more Britons lost their lives on 9/11 than in any previous terrorist attack.
Rest in Peace, we shall not forget you.
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A week before 9/11 and ol M8 from Viet Nam he was a retired NYC Firefighter He called me a month later and said He went there and helped and his head was in the crapper...He was just one of the first responders who spent days there ,,Helping other people Never Forget!!!!
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My wife was one of a bunch of local nurses who volunteered their time to look after the "strandees" as we called the folks whose flights were grounded here in Nfld. We have a memorial service every year on Sept.11. This year the US ambassador to Canada is visiting the little town of Appleton ( just west of Gander ) for the service.
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Never forgotten. I only recently learned of a teardrop memorial for 9-11 in NYC given to us by the Russians. Of all the songs that came out around that time I think Alan Jackson's song had the most genuine and sweet spirit behind it. Expressing heavy hearts and leaning on God.
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Never forget those who died on that day and never forget that we are still in a state of war.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
"In the vast library of socialist books, there’s not a single volume on how to create wealth, only how to take and “redistribute” it.” - David Horowitz
Never forgotten. I only recently learned of a teardrop memorial for 9-11 in NYC given to us by the Russians. Of all the songs that came out around that time I think Alan Jackson's song had the most genuine and sweet spirit behind it. Expressing heavy hearts and leaning on God.
My wife introduced me to AJ and in particular this song. Beautiful.
It's one of those things where I still remember exactly where I was. Mostly that I randomly turned the TV on about 5 minutes before the second plane. A totally senseless act.