Where were you on 9/11/01
09-13-2007, 07:14 PM
#21
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Jamie Mello wrote:
> I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
I was at work on IBM's main campus in RTP NC. We like Matt we first
heard that it was a small plane, and knowing that one time a plane hit
the Empire State Building I assumed it was an accident.
Our internet connection was almost immediately overwhelmed (big
surprise) so I went out to the car to get a radio. In the corridors
they had these big monitors hanging from the ceiling that usually had
IBM TV but someone had switched them to a news feed and I got out there
just in time to see the first tower fall.
They locked that site down, all the entrances except the main one were
closed and a lot of people were told they could go home (not my
department however).
A lot of people forget what it was like right after the attacks. No one
really knew what was happening, who was behind it, or if another attack
was imminent. IBM's main site was seen by a lot of people as a target,
and their security people took it seriously.
I drove through Cary on the way home and it was creepy, police cars ALL
over the place.
The next few days stayed strange, my commute took me down I-40 past RDU
Airport and it was so weird not seeing any planes.
Jeff DeWitt
> I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
I was at work on IBM's main campus in RTP NC. We like Matt we first
heard that it was a small plane, and knowing that one time a plane hit
the Empire State Building I assumed it was an accident.
Our internet connection was almost immediately overwhelmed (big
surprise) so I went out to the car to get a radio. In the corridors
they had these big monitors hanging from the ceiling that usually had
IBM TV but someone had switched them to a news feed and I got out there
just in time to see the first tower fall.
They locked that site down, all the entrances except the main one were
closed and a lot of people were told they could go home (not my
department however).
A lot of people forget what it was like right after the attacks. No one
really knew what was happening, who was behind it, or if another attack
was imminent. IBM's main site was seen by a lot of people as a target,
and their security people took it seriously.
I drove through Cary on the way home and it was creepy, police cars ALL
over the place.
The next few days stayed strange, my commute took me down I-40 past RDU
Airport and it was so weird not seeing any planes.
Jeff DeWitt
09-13-2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Living in West Virginia at the time.
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
09-13-2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Living in West Virginia at the time.
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
09-13-2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Living in West Virginia at the time.
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
09-13-2007, 08:36 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Living in West Virginia at the time.
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
I was home, recovering from surgery of some sort.
Wife called from work, said look at the news, something's happening.
Still married to the crazy witch then. She was crazy, but she was right that
day.
Saw the first tower on fire on local news, switched to CNN, watched the
second plane hit the second tower.
Called my dad. Talked about the possibility that it was a --------- attack.
He was still alive then but battling cancer.
He was a very smart and intuitive man.
I remember I had a lump in my throat all that day that I couldn't swallow.
Kind of like today.
Spdloader
09-13-2007, 10:07 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
At School watching the second plane hit and the towers falling live on tv.
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
09-13-2007, 10:07 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
At School watching the second plane hit and the towers falling live on tv.
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
09-13-2007, 10:07 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
At School watching the second plane hit and the towers falling live on tv.
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
09-13-2007, 10:07 PM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
At School watching the second plane hit and the towers falling live on tv.
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
Carl
"Jamie Mello" <carkeyscc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1189662873.196454.4610@r29g2000hsg.googlegrou ps.com...
>I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
09-14-2007, 12:13 AM
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Re: Where were you on 9/11/01
Jamie Mello wrote:
> I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
I was asleep when the first plane hit. I'm in California so it was
early. I was awakened by my roommate who was already up and had the TV
on with, "Dude, a jet just flew into the World Trade Center in New York."
Watched the 2nd plane hit and the towers fall on live television. Went
to work late. My office is in a 20 story building. At the time, remember
we didn't know what, who, how, why, etc. Everyone at work was very
uneasy and about noon, the boss told everyone to go home.
Best Regards,
DAve
> I was thinking about posting this qustion today in class. So I did so
> where were you when the planes hit the twin towers? I was in class at
> Junior high (way before I got my 99 Wrangler) if I remember right it
> was math. But that day no one was doing math. We were all watching the
> T.V. when the Second plane the towers hit thinking oh my god oh my god
> this is not happing. (I was sleeping when the first one hit west coast
> time) I said what I was doing when the the planes hit now it is your
> turn.
>
I was asleep when the first plane hit. I'm in California so it was
early. I was awakened by my roommate who was already up and had the TV
on with, "Dude, a jet just flew into the World Trade Center in New York."
Watched the 2nd plane hit and the towers fall on live television. Went
to work late. My office is in a 20 story building. At the time, remember
we didn't know what, who, how, why, etc. Everyone at work was very
uneasy and about noon, the boss told everyone to go home.
Best Regards,
DAve