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General => General Discussion & Topics => Quote of the Day => Topic started by: Hub on September 11, 2016, 08:38:46 AM
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Today of all days let us remember where we were -- not so much physically or geographically -- but where our hearts and minds were on Septmber 11, 2001. Let us give thanks, each in our own way, for our freedoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hTVjFaLsA&list=RDd8hTVjFaLsA#t=16
God, bless America.
Hub
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Amen!
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Amen!
Same here! Don
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Amen!
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I was crossing a set of railroad tracks two blocks from dropping from my kid's off at school. Crossing back over those tracks I was calling my wife on the cell phone to tell her what was going on. It was hard to work that day. I had the television on watching the events unfold. I cried that day for those lost and our country.
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I first heard the news during my off period while teaching at a high school. I saw it on the news on a TV in our library. Word spread very quickly through our school. It was a very strange feeling during the next passing period and in the classrooms. About an hour later, we were dismissed for the day and sent home. I, like millions of other Americans, then watched the horrific details play out on the news channels throughout the remainder of the day.
Let us never forget.
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God Bless America!!
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Today of all days let us remember where we were -- not so much physically or geographically -- but where our hearts and minds were on Septmber 11, 2001. Let us give thanks, each in our own way, for our freedoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hTVjFaLsA&list=RDd8hTVjFaLsA#t=16
God, bless America.
Hub
Awesome Hub...
And may I add - may we all think clearly about how to keep those hard earned - with much bloodshed - rights as sacred and protected as the lives they cost to earn.
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My kid asked me today if I was alive during 9/11. I gave her the look Tee gets when he wears shorts.
I was working in downtown Minneapolis. My building was across the street from the tallest building in Minneapolis. As we didn't know if other high value targets were possible, my building was evacuated and we were sent home.
I will never forget
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I remember that day very well. I was teaching math in an alternative high school. When the first plane hit, someone yelled for me to turn on our class room TV. I did. Everyone was totally mesmerized the rest of the day.
About a week later the Principal asked for a panel made up of members of the staff to hold a round table discussion for the students. One of our assistant principals had been in the Peace Corp before teaching and becoming an administrator. He was on the panel. Another teacher had been in the military, besides me. There was one other teacher who had not been in the military. Each panel member was allowed to make a short statement about their background before the students were allowed to start asking questions. Almost no questions were asked of the non-veterans. The two veterans were asked a lot of questions. I remember one question, "Would I go back into the Navy if I thought I could help?" My answer was that it would take too long to train me to the level that I would need to be at in order to be useful again on a submarine. My contribution would be in the classroom, since I considered that to be equally important.
Art
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I remember it well... like when President Kennedy was shot. It's one of those things that's burned into your mind.
My youngest daughter was attending NYU and she witnessed the second tower collapsing. I was flying twin-engine Cessnas for a regional airline en route to Laguardia on a scheduled pax flight with five SOBs and we were ordered by ATC to land at the "nearest available and suitable" airport. All flights both commercial and private were grounded. I spent a few days on the ground hanging around the pilots' lounge before I could get back to HYA. A friend of mine was one of the two F-15 pilots scrambled from Otis ANG Base for the intercept... but they had no protocol on what to do if they caught up with the second airliner.
Mike
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It's a day I can never forget - lost a cousin that day. He worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and was on a floor below where the plane hit. He was on the phone to traders in England when it hit and they said they could hear him trying to calm everyone; and then there was silence. :-( He was only in his mid forties with a wife and two little, young girls. Such a loss.
June
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I was at finishing work and on my way home listening to talk radio and heard the news when the first plane hit. I believe I got home just as the second one hit the other tower. I will never forget that...