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In reply to the discussion: Tell me about your 9/11. [View all]Silent3
(15,152 posts)9. I had been layed off on 9/10
So it was very strange to be home, sulking about being out of a job while watching the news, and have this come along to put things in perspective. It all seemed very surreal.
Fortunately I was called back to work two months later, just before I'd been about to take another job that would have been an awful commute into Boston.
Even with work to keep me busy, however, 9/11 hung like a pall over everything for a few months.
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I was down with a migraine that morning. My boss called me at about 10:25 a.m. EDT
catbyte
Sep 2020
#4
This is a summary my wife and I prepared immediately after 9/11 to share with friends/family
brooklynite
Sep 2020
#5
I was in an open floor plan US Marshals office on a federal complex when everyone's phones started
NightWatcher
Sep 2020
#8
I was called to a tv screen. As best A business channel was on, [the old FNN?], which
empedocles
Sep 2020
#10
I was in bed, just a few months after emergency surgery - when Bill came in to tell me what happened
Lucinda
Sep 2020
#14
Saw both planes hit. People falling out. Lost some Port Authority friends and co-worker's brother.
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2020
#15
They can shove that thermite up their asses. It was widely known that planes were easily hijacked.
TheBlackAdder
Sep 2020
#24
I had just arrived at work. Like you, I at first thought it was one of those things like what
CTyankee
Sep 2020
#48
I was coming in to work at a maximum security state prison in the Southwestern US
Ron Green
Sep 2020
#19
I'm in California and was in bed asleep. I didn't know about it till hours later. My
Raine
Sep 2020
#37