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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 3:44 pm
Living in western Canada we were arriving at work when the first plane hit. We have tv sets in our elevators and at first we understood it was a small plane. Then people who arrived later were talking about a second plane. When the towers fell, seeing as are in the investment business and a lot of our people knew people in those towers, we were dismissed. At that time we had no idea how many planes were being used as bombs. There was talk of one heading for the Sears tower in Chicago. I remember crying on the bus home, not from fear, just immense sadness. Our house was in the pathway to the airport. One after another planes were passing overhead, then there was silence.
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Buffy
Member
07-13-2005
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 4:39 pm
I remember driving my older daughter to school and having KIIS FM on that morning before having turned on the TV at home. The DJ, Rick Dees, was saying, "we have no clue what's going on.......oh my God, another plane has flown into the twin towers." I thought he was kidding. He always did pranks. It took a good five minutes to realize he was serious. I was shocked. But not until I returned home to turn on the TV did I realize the full extent of what was going on. That day will never be forgotten. I had a loved one in Korea at the time and he couldn't get back home. Everything was grounded. My kids were scared, I was scared. But with friends and family, we made it through. My daughter's first grade teacher had a daughter working in New York in one of the towers. The teacher was scared to death, but came to school to teach, anyway, her cell phone by her side, waiting for a call. She recieved that call and her daughter was safe, by some miracle. I will NEVER forget her tenacity to keep functioning normally through the uncertainty. My daughter, and I, learned a huge lesson that day. I wish I had been coming here then. It would have made life even easier with your support. I have loved every minute of being on this board and I'll miss it after this week.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 4:42 pm
Buffy... you don't have to go anywhere. TVCH has LOTS of places to read and post. Its so diverse you should be able to find several places of interest. I personally will be mostly in the AR and Survivor areas...but I wander around alot... Go check out the "What to do when its over..." thread....
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Justalittlebean
Member
08-15-2003
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 4:52 pm
I think today we should also remember all the victims of terrorist. One of the marines killed in the barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was like a little brother to me. His name is Sgt. Joseph P. Moore. I grew up with him and his brothers and sisters. The terrorist not only took his life but they took the life of one of his brothers. Joe was very close to his brother and the brother couldn't handle Joe's death and the brother killed himself 2 years later. This was Joe's second tour in Beirut and he was due to go home in just 4 weeks when the blast occurred. Those were the longest days of my life, not knowing if Joe was safe. I really feel for the victims and the survivors of these terrible attacks. My heart cries for everyone.

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Springer
Member
03-12-2004
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 5:13 pm
From Minneapolis MN: I always had the news going on the radio when I was at work.....most of my co-workers listened to music. I was the first to yell out that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center....so everyone switched over to the news. The guys in the cubicals next to me had a TV and as they turned it on, everyone ran over to watch. It was still very sketchy about what happened. Didn't sound like a national threat at that time....so I went back to my desk and tried to concentrate on doing my work.....but when I heard one of the local news people say that: "This is as big as Pearl Harbor", I started to panic and told my boss that I needed to go home and be with my family right now. None of us will ever forget where we were that day. God Bless America
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WoodpeckeŽ
Member
07-16-2002
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 5:20 pm
Terrorists suck. Every day is hate the terrorists day.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 5:34 pm
On September the eleventh two thousand one two hundred ninety million americans woke up individuals and went to sleep together.
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Rosem4243
Member
06-27-2005
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 6:34 pm
Reminds me of 9/11/01 when the HG got movies. This has been a difficult day..
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 7:26 pm
Ketchup, that is such a nice comment - thank you for sharing it.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:21 pm
Wow, just reading what everyone wrote has made even more emotional than I already have been today. I didn't find out until around 1PM that something had happened. I had not turned on the TV, had a radio on or been online yet. I stepped out on my back deck and my next-door neighbor who was usually at work all day was home. She doesn't usually talk much, barely says hello and she started talking to me. She said something like, "Some goings on today, huh?" I asked her what she meant. When she told me, I was in shock. She said her boss's son worked in the WTC and he was panicked until he finally heard from him. They were all sent home. I still didn't understand the magnitude of what happened. I was aghast when I turned on the TV and I remember watching it almost non-stop for a week or two. I recall getting emails from friends in other parts of the country who don't realize how big New York State is and asking if we were safe. I also remember coming here. I do remember many of us thinking how awful it was that the HGs didn't know what was going on and when they mentioned something about no planes flying over on the feeds we said, "If they only knew why." I remember discussing that they wouldn't be able to get to their loved ones and vice versa if they did stop the show. I remember Monica finding out her cousin was involved, but they didn't tell her all the details. They still had no idea the magnitude of what happened. It's hard to believe it's been 5 yrs already. When I put out our flag today, I put a new yellow ribbon around the pole and plan on leaving there until it needs replacing or all our loved ones come home from war. I've had 2 loved ones at war since then, one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. My nephew will probably be returning to Iraq again. I'll never be the same. Life goes on and we carry on without fear most of the time, but I recall when most of the NE went dark during the summer black out, we couldn't help but fear it was another attack. It's always there under the surface. We'll never be the same, but what made me proud is how we as Americans bonded together. I do wish the message of 9/11 could live on in that kind of bonding. I think that's why I love TVCH so much. We bonded and many have stayed bonded. I know people who can't understand what we have here, but you have to experience it to understand it. God Bless my TVCH family and God Bless America.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:37 pm
Laneesmom: I remember, not sure exactly what day it was, when everyone was to light a candle outside......maybe it was just one of those "e-mails" that I got saying to do it in remembrance. It was the Friday night right after 9/11. I remember going out and seeing all the candles going at the front of everyone's house all the way up and down our street. I think it was on TV as well as going around the web in emails since so many people participated.
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Buffy
Member
07-13-2005
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:10 pm
Thank you, again, Kep. I will most definitely be checking out the other topics. Most likely Survivor and Amazing Race. Who knows what else I'll find? God bless you all.
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Justin42
Member
08-05-2001
| Monday, September 11, 2006 - 11:01 pm
9/11 was such a weird day. I've never been to NY so in a way anything that happens there always seems so distant (I am in LA). But 9/11 was different and definitely transcended space. I was still living at home then, and my mom was leaving that morning on a flight to Pennsylvania for a (distant) family wedding. I got up early (like 4:30/5am-ish) to say goodbye to her and went back to bed for a while. I woke up at 5:50am-ish to hear the local rock station saying a small commuter plane hit the World Trade Center. The way it was said it sounded like a foggy morning and a small plane; nothing major to worry about. (horrible accident, yes, but nothing like what the truth would become) I got out of bed around 5:55, turned on the TV a couple minutes later as my dad walked in. He asked if I had heard, but he hadn't seen anything. We got the news channel on just in time to see the 2nd plane hit live-- we thought we were watching tape of the first plane. It was totally horrifying. My brain froze; 2 planes in 15 minutes couldn't be an accident. I about drove back to the airport to drag my mom off a plane (my mom is either naive, or trusting, depending on how you want to spin it-- she would've flown no matter what and I figured this was a very, VERY bad day to fly). My dad kept telling me that it was too late, she'd be boarding before I could make it there. When news of the Pentagon started trickling in, I really freaked out. I called my boss, totally forgetting that she had a son in New York for work (Who was fine), asking what we were doing about the student training we were in the middle of. (We do 2 full-week sessions of orientations for incoming students) She said she wasn't sure what to do, but she was going to go in and after I explained about my mom's flight I said I'd be in once I found out what was going on. I kept hoping they'd shut down the airports; my dad said there was no way but I couldn't imagine that SOMETHING drastic wouldn't have to happen. I tried to get ready for work but kept gravitating to the living room to watch TV. When the first tower fell I felt absolutely sick. My legs just about gave out on me and I almost fell right onto the floor... It was a combination of sheer rage and desperate sadness for all of the victims. I don't think I've ever felt that emotion since, although I feel variations of it every September 11. I didn't leave the house until after they did officially ground the planes; my mom finally called and said they never got off the tarmac (the plane was fully loaded and she was onboard but they were told to hold and finally the flight got cancelled) . Once I heard I went into work, and by the time I got in my dad called and said he had gotten my mom home. One of our student employees at the time had a husband who was a Marine (Who she was VERY proud of and talked all the time about before this). She was an amazingly strong woman, and I saw her heart breaking when I got in that morning-- she knew her husband was going to be put into harm's way but she was also proud because she knew how badly the country needed him (And her). She was hard to talk to that morning, it's like, what do you say to someone who's husband may be shipped off to some (at the time) unknown place? (her husband never ended up going to Afghanistan or Iraq, at least for the next year when she was in the program and I kept in touch with her, but did end up doing a lot of training of Marines that did end up there) We gave our students the option of cancelling the session for the day or continuing on. We were sure they would vote to cancel is 99% of the reason we gave them the option (there was no way I could teach them how to build web pages!!!). But 19 out of 20 voted to continue on. We let the one go home, and thankfully some of our student staff stepped up and taught the sessions we weren't really feeling up to teaching. We set up a TV in our student commons, which got really bad reception (we were stripping ethernet cables to get the copper and wiring them up! Our building is notorious for bad TV reception and we don't have cable since no one would really use it). I spent most of the day watching the news coverage with my jaw on the floor. We ended the day early, and I came home around 4pm with the lightest traffic I EVER remember in LA on the 405. There was NOBODY around and no planes or anything. It was eerie. It felt like something happened in LA and everyone was hiding. So this isn't really a tragic story, but it was such a sickening feeling to know my mom was on an American flight to the east coast (when all of the flights involved were transcontinental), and didn't know what was going on. My heart goes out to all who lost friends or family in the attacks; a day doesn't go by that I don't think about it... it really was such a defining moment, moreso than anything I've lived through. (including stuff like the 1994 Northridge earthquake which was only a couple miles from my parents') And I'd be remiss to not thank all of the Canadians who helped so much on Sept. 11. I have a friend involved with Canadian air traffic control and the amount of planes full of Americans that Canada took, and the way the Canadian people took care of them while they were stuck up there, really is amazing... As for BB, I remember finally remembering the show even existed about 3-4 hours later. I flipped on the feeds and they were just sitting around doing nothing. It blew me away they weren't being told, I figured the "no news" thing is one thing if they weren't being told about celebrity gossip, etc, but it seemed like they should've been told more than they were. That said, I am VERY glad CBS didn't cancel the show, although I will admit it pretty much wiped my interest away for how it would end. I did watch to escape, but it seemed so small and meaningless to watch. (Wow, sorry mine is so long!)
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