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CatKnight 
Jedi Republican
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,05:50 |
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what were you doing when you first heard about the wtc? i was just waking up for class and my room mate had it on cnn. some rotc guys went around banging on doors saying that their divison had been activated, and i watched the towers collapse by the big tv in the hub with a couple hundred people crying and moaning.
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ic0n0
I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,06:13 |
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I was walking home from my 8 0am class; I didn’t know what happened as I was walking home. When I walked into my apartment I got on my pc and onto irc and BAM everyone was talking about it, “I was like what do you mean there gone?” at that point I hadn’t turned on the TV or went to a news site.
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veistran
We don't listen to people that don't like us.
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,07:31 |
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I was getting up for class, and watched the second plane hit, watched until the big chunk fell off the one and then had to leave and heard about the collapse on the radio.
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damien_s_lucifer
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,08:31 |
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I was sleeping... my roommate ran into my room and yelled "WORLD WAR III JUST STARTED!" - I just fell back asleep, figuring if I was gonna die, I was gonna go out happy.
I finally dragged myself into work around 10am, figuring that "the Twin Towers blew up" was a plenty good excuse for being late... and also figuring that they'd let us go home... which they didn't.
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Uberkommando
My cup is half empty.
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,13:44 |
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I was talking with my friend Chris while he was running the lunch counter stand after school, when my current events teacher ran up and dragged us into the teachers' lounge to have a look.
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Carnivore
Death is Total Independence
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,14:41 |
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I was driving into work listening to Howard Stern. Robin was like, "Did something just go into one of the towers???" and Howard was like, "Yeah I think it was a plane." Then everyone on the show started freaking out. 
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liquid metal
i make this look good
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,15:01 |
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i was in a bio lab. we were in the woods. i was confused when someone said "classes have been cancelled for the day."
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Wiley
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,15:16 |
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I was on the 405 freeway driving into work. I heard the first reports on Howard Stern, but at the time they didn't know what in NY was on fire. I turned to another radio station that was just saying "this is horrible ...I can't believe what is happening". Of course they wouldn't fill the listeners in on what was happening. I called home to Bernadette and told her to turn on the TV. She asked what the hell was going on because a friend of ours from France just called her and woke her up with screaming about WTC. She hung up on him and went back to bed just as I called. She turned on CNN right as I was pulling into work and explained what was going on. I ran upstairs just in time to see the second plane hit. Everybody just kind of watched the towers burn in disbelief and then the first tower fell. As soon as it fell we lost our internal video feed that is broadcasted from the south tower and on to our desktops. All the video windows went green at once ...for me this is what snapped me into reality and made me realize that this wasn't a movie I was watching. About this time security rushed in and told us we have to leave the building. I work in one of the twin towers in Century City, they are modeled after the ones in NY and were built by the same architect ...just about 1/3 the size. Security was getting increasingly more persistent on getting us out of the building when one of my co-workers broke down and told us that he couldn't leave, both his parents were in the WTC and he knew that they would try and call him on one of the 800 numbers since their cell phones no longer worked. Security wouldn't let us stay, so I forwarded all the 800 lines to his cell phone ...it was the best I could come up with on short notice. My boss was also in the WTC and I had my Weekly Tuesday morning conference call with the South Tower at 110am. It's really surprising how much of the financial world revolves around downtown NY. Everybody in our office was listing off the names of people they knew in those buildings as we were escorted out of our building. The next day few people came to work …the market wasn’t open but we were calling our clients to let them know that the company was still ok and their money was safe, even though we didn’t believe it at the time. Somebody actually came up to me and asked if the server was down because they couldn’t get the tickers to show the previous close prices. I answered, “I think it went down when the plane crashed into it …either that or when the building fell down. You’re a fucking idiot!” He got all pissed off, but it was a pretty stupid question to be asking.
And my co-worker finally got it touch with his parents..both of them got out from different towers and called on the 800 number and everybody found out that each other was alright. And my boss got out, rented a car and drove back to CA. He doesn’t really like to talk about what happened. Like many others he just says that the only way you could understand is if you were there. I know he’s right …and I’m glad I can’t understand.
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Wolfguard
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,15:36 |
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On the 10th i was sitting on the tarmac at o'hare in chciago waiting for the plane to take off. it was delayed due to air traffic control problems on the east coast.
I woke up on the 11th to the news reports of the first plane. Went and woke the mrs just in time for the second hit. She asked me what movie it was. I told her it was CNN.
We waited for 12 hours for all the people we know to send the "im alive" messages. 8 people we knew were in the towers. Thank the maker, all 8 got out.
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Bozeman
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Posted on: Mar. 12 2002,16:47 |
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September 11th, 2001 happened last semester on a tuesday. Last semster, tuesday was the only day I didn't get up at 6:30 am. I lazily hung around, ate breakfast, and checked email. Then my roommate called, and told me to turn on the news. The towers were on fire, and they replayed images of the second collision. I just sat and watched. Then they fell down.
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