[OT] where were you 9/11?

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

I was on the first floor of the school and I heard kids in the hall talking
about it, so I got more details at that point. I recall thinking that the
US would be bombing the shit out of someone in the near future, and was
hoping that it was an isolated incident which wouldn't involve the whole
world in warfare. In some ways it was an isolated incident, save for the
other two planes that went elsewhere to kill people. I also recall the
list's reaction being one of shock and sympathy, and hearing of Scott
Williams' experience being quite close to the event. And of those who knew
people who'd not been so lucky. It was certainly one of those events that
resulted in lost innocence of sorts, much like another event that I'm old
enogh to recall, the Kennedy assassination. I was very young, and recall my
mom telling me about that as she picked me up from school. Hopefully there
won't be too many more "milestones" like those. And it really did look like
a movie, too unreal to be real.

Cathy

On 3:40 pm 09/10/07 Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thinking about the job I had going to Canada reminded me of 2001 and
> hence what my day was like when the towers fell.  I know half of you
> hate me and are afraid to respond despite being grown men but I
> thought this might be interesting since the world changed.  Not
> political, just real life story sharing depending on your time zone
> or location.
>
> I listened to the initial reports as I got ready for work at 8 am.
> The second plane hit just as I and the ex-gf were about to go out the
> door to our jobs so I listened to the radio on my 20 minute commute.
>
> My employer had recently completed a brand new global headquarters
> and I was lucky enough to have a nouveau riche Henry Miller cubicle
> there temporarily.  There were multiple conference rooms but the main
> one in our wing (Science & Technology) had room for 60 and all mod
> cons as far as projection TV and buzz-down screen.
>
> We all gathered and watched as the drama collapsed on CNN.  The VP
> was there right next to us lowly technicians and nobody said much of
> anything.  "It looks like a movie," I blurted with regret (but then I
> regret everything I say.)
>
> Tuesday was my team's weekly 10 am conference call with Switzerland
> and I found my supervisor in a small room blabbing about nothing.  I
> told him the latest by drawing crumbling buildings on the whiteboard
> and he shrugged it off, muted the phone, and said he would watch it
> on tv that night.  The Swiss were largely unaware of the magnitude of
> events and at the end of their day, just wanting to go home.
>
> Luckily I had planned to take the afternoon off to go sailing with my
> buddies.  Work didn't seem doable by lunch and the ones who shrugged
> it off seemed even more surreal than the events themselves.  I got
> back in the car and went home.  My one friend was ready, he had the
> day off from his fish delivery job so we went to the slacker den of
> the other and found him sitting amongst cheeto bags and beer bottles
> watching tv.
>
> Got him in the car and headed south an hour to the boat.  We declared
> a radio moratorium halfway down and sailed the day away, the only
> boat on the lake, with our US flag flapping in a nice breeze.
> Checked in at the smalltown bar that night and found some very angry
> locals.  Went home and crashed.  The end.
>
>
>
>
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