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In reply to the discussion: Tell me about your 9/11. [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I was reading the book Seabiscuit and put it down roughly 5 AM. That's my normal sleep time, then as now. But that was Pacific Time so very close to the event itself. I very nearly turned on the television and watched Headline News or CNN for 10-15 minutes. I did that frequently. I might have seen the entirety.
Instead I went to sleep and woke up at noon. Somehow nobody ever called me in the interim. I turned on Headline News and wondered why I was listening to Judy Woodruff. She was never on that network. Then I started reading the scroll at bottom and grasped what happened. As soon as I read about the towers going down I said out loud, "That's thousands."
It wasn't until 5 years later I was able to see how it unfolded in real time. MSNBC played the NBC coverage on September 11, 2006.
Las Vegas really took a hit in 2001. There were fears the huge casinos could be a terrorist target. Tourism plummeted. Many of my friends lost their jobs.
I visited the Ground Zero site in summer 2010 and saw the Flight 93 Memorial in fall 2019. Actually now that I think about it I was at Ground Zero at a much earlier year as well, maybe summer 2003 or 2004. Somewhere around there. Big crowds. Watched from a catwalk as work was going on below. The area was still like a canyon, visible well below ground level