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9/11
Sept 10, 2016 22:52:32 GMT -6
Post by All Drop In on Sept 10, 2016 22:52:32 GMT -6
I thought we had a thread about it. Maybe I'm on Tito's. But I'd love to hear thoughts on the fifteenth anniversary.
It's not a fun topic. Where were you? What were your thoughts? Did anything change in your life? What do you think today?
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9/11
Sept 10, 2016 23:30:06 GMT -6
Post by randomone on Sept 10, 2016 23:30:06 GMT -6
Not sure if Woodridge you were at UT teaching yet, but I remember that day so vividly. Freshman year in high school. Going from Algebra to Biology and everything just stopped. No one did anything in classes & we just rolled the TV in and watched, going from class to class and just continuing to watch.
This was the first major event that made me aware of what could possibly happen to the USA in terms of terrorism. Because I was so young, I didn't really know shit, you know what I mean?
I know it's not the thread to start talking politically, but it seems like 9/11 & terrorism as a whole gets brought up a bunch and douchebag politicians (Trump especially) use it to prey on peoples emotions.
It's a terrible tragedy. I can't begin to imagine the emotion people who lost loved ones in this are going through.
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Sept 10, 2016 23:56:59 GMT -6
Post by All Drop In on Sept 10, 2016 23:56:59 GMT -6
I will have many thoughts on this deal over the next couple days. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was the end of my childhood. The terrorists did actually impact me that day. Congrats, goat fucking followers. Enjoy being dust. I graduated college in May 01'. Young, dumb, full of cum, and turning down a job offer or two.
I still lived at home. My mom used to have the kitchen TV blaring every morning. I don't remember what I did the night before, but it probably involved Blarney Stone. I was either teaching tennis lessons or rehabbing houses, but it wasn't an early morning. I woke up to the second tower coming down. Silence in the house. I still haven't talked to my mom about why she had to turn the TV off. That NEVER happened.
My friend and I decided to go out and play tennis. I legit asked if we were being assholes for playing tennis. While we were playing tennis, someone set off an M-80 a block over. I was totally fine not being the biggest asshole that day.
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9/11
Sept 11, 2016 0:07:36 GMT -6
Post by All Drop In on Sept 11, 2016 0:07:36 GMT -6
This is not a joke. A few of us that loved wrestling went to the house of the same guy I played tennis with to watch Smackdown. His sisters were like my sisters. Along with two other people, we watched the show. It wasn't popular to be a hetero dude crying in those days. We were all losing our shit. Nobody looked at each other at first, but the vignettes were too much. Bill Demott actually got me. I believe. Isn't that humorous? What?
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9/11
Sept 11, 2016 7:52:44 GMT -6
Post by Terry's Peeps on Sept 11, 2016 7:52:44 GMT -6
In grad school living with the not-quite-yet Mrs. Speeps. She went to her pharmacy school rotation at Michael Reese Hospital at like 6:30. I didn't have class til 9 or something so I went back to sleep.
I woke up at 8 and turned on the Score, only to hear CBS News. Turned on the TV and sat glued to the tv until I had to go to work at 2.
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9/11
Sept 11, 2016 7:56:30 GMT -6
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Post by Hawg Ass on Sept 11, 2016 7:56:30 GMT -6
Mom, Dad, myself and a very young Piglet were up in Eagle River staying at my bosses mansion of a Log Cabin. We were coming home that day and up cleaning up the place when my sister called and said you better turn on the TV. Saw the 2nd plane hit the tower and thought it was something out of a movie. My mom kept saying we have to clean up and get home, my thought was we couldn't be in a safer place than Eagle River, WI. Listened in silence the whole way home of radio coverage. Another thing that I am reminded of, I was in the air freight business and our office was right beside the airport. It was very weird not hearing airplanes take off the next day I returned to work.
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9/11
Sept 11, 2016 8:20:06 GMT -6
Post by Coast2Coast on Sept 11, 2016 8:20:06 GMT -6
I was at home getting ready to leave for work when it happened. The TVs in the office were on all day long.
By 10 am,, our CEO brought a few of us together to plan our response and by the end of the day I was coordinating with emergency people in NYC to get volunteers to go to NYC and acquiring transportation and supplies for them to help in the cleanup.
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9/11
Sept 11, 2016 22:50:03 GMT -6
Post by Positivity KS on Sept 11, 2016 22:50:03 GMT -6
I was a manager at Officemax in Appleton at the time and had the day off. I slept in then just as I do now because I usually worked 2nd shift. My phone kept ringing off the hook. Finally answered it once and dude told me what was going on.
It was just a surreal day. Sat glued to the TV the entire day. Not sure but I imagine I smoked a ton that day as a coping mechanism.
One weird thing is that at some point in the afternoon I decided to get something from the gas station. As I got closer I noticed a line a cars about a half mile long. They were all leading into the gas station. I guess I probably was smoking come to think of it because my first and only thought at the time was that everybody in Appleton was going to the gas station to exact revenge for what had happened. (Because the owners of the gas station had that middle eastern-ish appearance.)
It wasn't until some time later in the day when I was watching the news and they were saying there were long lines at the pumps because of this) and I was like "Ohhhhh, fuck am I dumb".
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