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In reply to the discussion: What were you doing, decided to do, or did do on 9/11/2001? [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)25. I remember standing in my living room with CNN on, crying... nt
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What were you doing, decided to do, or did do on 9/11/2001? [View all]
Lady Freedom Returns
Sep 2013
OP
I suppose the farther removed you are from it, the less it seems like a big deal
Marrah_G
Sep 2013
#19
I find that reliving it over and over again, and being constantly reminded of it every goddamn day..
Vashta Nerada
Sep 2013
#39
Yet for some reason you find need to come in here and bash those who feel otherwise. odd.
uppityperson
Sep 2013
#43
9/11 changed everything!1! No need to look back!1! They should find that money and never receive
Mnemosyne
Sep 2013
#18
I was at work. A security/police atmosphere, in a city about 90 miles from DC. Needless
Nay
Sep 2013
#33
there were dozens of ambulances and fire trucks from every single town in NJ come up to help.....
bettyellen
Sep 2013
#75
Driving an 18 wheel truck around Chicago and wondering if Chicago was going to be next.
B Calm
Sep 2013
#41
I was watching the buildings coming down from a pier in Brooklyn. I spent the next week looking for
hrmjustin
Sep 2013
#42
The dancer I was dating woke me up saying, "I think they started a war or something".
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#46
I was at work, a full-time permanent job with good pay and good benefits.
winter is coming
Sep 2013
#51
I was getting ready for work. Turned on CNN. Saw that a 'small plane' had flown
applegrove
Sep 2013
#52
I was about to leave for NYC. I had tickets for the Yanks/Chisox that night--Clemens was
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#67
I was five blocks away from my office in the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan.
madinmaryland
Sep 2013
#68
I was asleep after pulling another all-nighter on my doc. dissertation. Daughter phoned from work...
Hekate
Sep 2013
#71
Same here. Originally it was thought that hospitals would be flooded with burn victims....
Hekate
Sep 2013
#78
We returned to Paris from Monet's garden at Giverney by a mid-afternoon train.
DreamGypsy
Sep 2013
#76