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In reply to the discussion: Tell me about your 9/11. [View all]Hekate
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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