[OT] where were you 9/11?

[raveracer77 at yahoo.ca (Rave Racer 77)]

    Interesting how everyone has that completely unrelated memory of what 
would otherwise be an unremarkable detail if it were any other event.  I 
remember what I was wearing for the wake, how I was standing when I turned 
on the TV, how I felt weak when I saw the plane hit, how it looked more like 
an eagle swooping in for the kill then an airplane.  I even remember the 
faded fall light through my bay window in my apt.

      Rave Racer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett Van Sprewenburg" <brett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 21:27
Subject: Re: [OT] where were you 9/11?


>
>
> I was at work, slaving over converting a web application from some  3rd 
> party when the marketing manager came by with a radio saying he  just 
> heard that a plane had hit the WTC.  We figured it was a  mistake, a 
> tragic mistake is all.  I was getting breaking news by  having 3 or 4 
> different web sites open when someone remembered the TV  upstairs with 
> cable in one of the conferences rooms.  By this time,  we had it figured 
> to be purposeful.  (The news sites were getting too  bogged down to be 
> effective at this point also)
>
> Several of us went up there to watch, and learn that it really  appears to 
> be a deliberate act.  I was watching when the 2nd plane  hit.  It was 
> numbing.  I distinctly remember *willing* the 1st tower  to remain 
> standing . . . even when I watched it blowing apart into  dust.   I 
> couldn't really believe it was real.  My stomach hurt.   Then agonizingly 
> later, watched as the second tower fell also.
>
> I really remember quite clearly my perspective in relation to the TV 
> screen while I stood there...odd isn't that.
>
> I remember wondering how widespread the attack was going to be . . .  was 
> every office tower going to be a target today?
>
> ==Brett
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