TSB
General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: balloonguy on September 11, 2012, 08:35:51 AM
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Many years ago we printed balloons for a restaurant. They were a very normal customer. I never thought much of them until they stopped ordering. Windows on the World was on the top floor of the World Trade Center. It does not seem like much but I still feel a pang of anger every time I think of the the loss.
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Should make us all pause for a moment
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Doesn't seem like 11 years ago.
I worked in a screen print shop in Tempe. Came in late because I was watching it on TV and waiting for a call from stepdaughter who lived there. (She was ok).
But going into the shop, a big one where the phones were always ringing... dead silence. Everyone was in a daze, TVs on everywhere. Not a single phone rang the whole day.
That night, I stood in my backyard watching the Air Force jets circling in the sky above nearby Sky Harbor Airport.
I was angry and sad, but didn't really get scared until the Anthrax thing.
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It's the modern day JFK, everybody remembers where they were. I was on my way into work, on Old Canton Road, right by the power lines. Mara Davis announced it on the radio. Nothing happened all day, we were glued to the TV, all 2.5 inches of it..it was all we had.
I remember for the next few weeks, every restaurant had tv's on the news. One place had them stacked up on top of boxes so everybody could see it. Crazy.
I remember being both pissed and sad as well.
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I was about to go to class, one of my roomates told me that I better watch the news, something bad had happened at the world trade center. A few minutes after I started watching, the second plane hit. I don't remember a whole lot from those college years except partying and what not, but that day was surreal. I was very angry, I just wanted revenge and wasn't thinking clearly about the situation. Classes were canceled that day but I think they started the next day.
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We were working on stuffing a mailer , and the girls had brought in a TV to watch while doing it. They said some plane had hit the tower and we started watching at the point when the 2nd hit.
Pretty sad day, with lots of crazy rumors . Knew one person that was there in the morning for a conference that decided to skip out early from it He ended up getting a rental and heading for the border before it closed.
One part that has been a pain in my side since it happened is the border , I had to travel to the States 2 or 3 days after and I'm sure I was flagged for some reason and have been pulled in at the border every time since for no reason. But we live in different times nowfor sure.
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I was a bartender...we closed at 4am. So i went to bed at 6am...I didn't wake up until 4 in the afternoon...missed it all, had no idea anything happened until i went into work at 6 that evening.
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I saw the plane hit the second tower and watched both towers as they fell. I knew immediately we were under attack. I felt mostly sadness.
Nobody knew what was really going on and since I worked in the oil capital of the south, every thought was that we might be a target too.
We got turned out early and I walked and block after block from downtown trying to catch a bus but they were all full and none stopped, always searching the skies for a plane. It was during that time that I felt completely lost, like I was in a daze.
My son had driven in and I was finally able to reach him to come pick me up.
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I was already at work when it happened. Someone heard something on the radio so all of us ended up in the conference room with a small t.v. on watching it happen. We just sat there, I don't think any of us said a word or moved from that spot for a while. Even though it was on t.v. and we saw it with our own eyes, it was so hard to believe it was real.
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I remember all too well, I stayed home that day, after the $%#@ starting hitting the fan early in the Am, I figured I was better off with my wife and then new-born daughter. I figured if it got worse I wanted to be at home.
Our thoughts are with you guys today.
~Your Northern neighbours
jon
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i watched a couple programs on it last night. the outpouring from the international community was amazing. the memorial at buckingham palace was touching.
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We just got married on the 8th and were 18 hours into our honeymoon. We were thinking of taking a day trip to new York the following day but needless to say the honeymoon ended pretty quick and drove the 9 hours back yo Ohio.
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