[OT] where were you 9/11?

[lord_verminaard at yahoo.com (Brendan Doyle)]

Yeah, that's strange.  1986, I was in 3rd grade, and I remember coming back inside from recess and the teacher had the TV set up and was watching it.  Not sure I knew at the time how bad it was but I knew the teacher was upset.  (there was a schoolteacher on board that trip)

I also remember the recent Columbia disaster on '03, it was a saturday, and I was coming home from work at the VW dealership in Baltimore.  I was driving down Cold Spring Lane, right by the Loco Hombre and Sam's Bagels when I heard it on the radio.  

Brendan

----- Original Message ----
From: Mtl-Marc <marc_scirocco@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: scirocco list <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:23:47 AM
Subject: RE: [OT] where were you 9/11?

People old enough will remember all the details about the day they learned
Kennedy was shot. I still have a very vivid memory of where and when, and
just about every details, about when I heard the first Shuttle exploded on
take off in the '80s.

Marc

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Rave Racer 77 [mailto:raveracer77@xxxxxxxx] 
> Envoy? : 12 septembre 2007 04:04
> 
>     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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> '86 Fox
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> 
> Gone:
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> 
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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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