Where were you?
POSTED BY: Starrbaby
UPDATED: Monday, September 19, 2005 22:50
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It was a sunny late afternoon in switzerland. Me and my colleague were working in our office (yes in a bank :)), when shortly before we wanted to leave we got an email, concerning telephne problems. The wrote something like "We all heard what happened overseas, the telephone-lines are all overloaded....."
We just look at each other and asked ourselves what had happened. In the internet (which was extremly slow that time) all we found out was that a plane had hit the WTC. We thought it would be a small plane who was flying to close and made jokes about how stupid that pilot had to be.
About ten seconds after I got home and put on the TV, the first tower collapsed. THAT was a shock...
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Yes there are Fireflyfans all over the world. Even in little switzerland.
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I was driving to work and turned on the radio. I heard that fighter jets had been scrambled to protect downtown Los Angeles buildings, so it wasn't until I got into work that I realized it was because of the WTC. We watched the second jet hit and on past after both buildings came down.
I work with some really bright people. Within 20 minutes collectively we had the details worked out. It was at the time that I said in complete error - it's a big country, it will take more than this to bring the US to a halt.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Like many, I was in the car, listening to the radio. A friend of mine who worked for CNN at the time was up in New Jersey , just across the river. I was suppose to be up there w/ her, but ..well, that's another story.
Anyway, I was in front of a t.v. as the 2nd plane attacked. What stuck out in my mind was the news( forget which station I was watching ) anchorette amazingly asking the most inane questions.... " could this have been an accident? " I'm sitting here watching this airliner fly into the largest buildings in NYC, on a perfectly clear Sept. morning, and this bimbo kept trying to promote the idea that there could be some sort of beacon malfunciton w/ the airport that was guiding planes into the WTC. She was watching it, everyone was watching the same thing....guidence malfunction?? I guess it was incomprehensible to her that this really could be happening. She needed a logical explanation for what she was seeing...it couldn't be planes INTENTIONALLY flying into buildings.... despite what she had just seen.
My friend had been out late the night before, and was still zonked out when the planes hit the WTC. After she woke up a bit later, and saw what had happened, she made her way to the waterside... she said all she could do was just sit there and watch the smoke.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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In the car in Sixth grade on the way to school and heard the radio/newpaper.
"It's okay to leave them to die."
"I'm a leaf on the wind."
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