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lost-in-nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:49 PM Original message |
SO do you remember where you were 8 years ago tomorrow???? |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes. I was driving to work when I heard the news. |
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Sterling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
94. There were other planes in the air that day. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. In bed |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
69. Me too |
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Me. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. And Me. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. I was in school (college) |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. Right here at home. YoungerGreenKid was still in diapers then. A friend called |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Yep. I remember the scramble to make sure everyone was accounted for. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. :^( I lost the emails from my mom. Now that she's gone I wish I still had them. (I went |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yup ... |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yes ! |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. I was chatting on AOL and watched the second explosion on the TV reflected in my computer monitor. |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
9. At work listening to the radio... |
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Wickerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Walked into the Post Office and the Post Master |
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dugaresa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. I had a day off that day. My son was in Kindergarten |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:57 PM Original message |
I remember it like it was yesterday. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. yeah I took off out of Newark in front of UAL flight 93...as a flight crew for the other 9/11 |
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Kaylee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Man, that's..............wow. |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. BIG HUG |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
77. I'm curious where you got groundstopped. |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. Packing |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. On Michael Moore's forum. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
15. I live 50 miles due north of NYC. It was a beautiful morning. Not a single cloud in the sky. |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
37. BIG HUG |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:15 AM Response to Reply #37 |
79. Thank you proud patriot |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
54. Yes, it's remarkable how the absolutely perfect weather that day is one detail we all remember |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:17 AM Response to Reply #54 |
80. And closeup and ready, since 9/11, when another morning like that presents iteself |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:23 AM Response to Reply #80 |
87. Yes, me, too. |
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Sterling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #15 |
95. Indian point? |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #95 |
97. They passed right over it and I have thought about it as a target since that day. |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Driving into the garage after taking my son to school. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. In bed, it was 5:00 in the morning in Hawaii |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Big hug |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Thanks it was amazing though |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. BIG HUG |
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netania99 (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
19. I was in the Lincoln Tunnel |
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Kaylee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. Home...very pregnant...... |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. Feeding my four month old son at the time - |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. I was at home, my mom called me. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
24. Primary Day 9-11-01 |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
26. 4 blocks away |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. hugs |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
44. BIG HUG |
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MUAD_DIB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. I was at work when I heard from my future wife that two planes had |
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get the red out (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
28. Very weird morning even far away |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
30. I got my daughter ready to go to the Developmental Achievement |
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Pool Hall Ace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
33. I was training a new employee at work. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
34. I remember how united we were |
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. On may way to work when I heard about the first plane. |
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johnnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was at work and had just walked in from a smoke break |
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connecticut yankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
38. I was preparing to move |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
40. Just barely awake ~~ on the West Coast... |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. I was on the NET with the New York Times, and it went down on me. |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
42. I was in Cleveland |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
43. Taking my step son to school. |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. BIG HUG |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Thanks. |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
46. getting my sons ready for school |
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abbeyco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
48. In bed and nursing a killer hangover |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
49. Yes, where I had been and where I was in driving to work from there ... |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
50. Turned the TV on minutes after the first plane hit; |
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Liberal In Texas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
51. Omaha. Saw a large four engine jet land way off in the distance. |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
52. My wife and I just landed in Ireland to visit our daughter. We met her and her boyfriend in a bar |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
53. On my way to work in Manhattan, and I saw smoke that morning about 8:45, but |
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pinstikfartherin (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
55. I was in Junior High School. |
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peacebuzzard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
56. home w/ my dogs; 24 hrs earlier had left a NYC airport w/view of twin towers |
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Senator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:51 PM Original message |
I remember where I was 8 years ago ... yesterday. |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
57. i woke up at about 6AM |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:51 PM Response to Reply #57 |
72. I had almost the same exact experience. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
58. I was there the day America woke up to the hatred others had for us.... |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
59. I sure do, and I've spent the past eight-years trying to get it out of my mind. |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
60. I was on my way to my job as a therapist |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
61. Sitting at home when my mom yelled... |
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ThatsMyBarack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
62. I heard the news around 8:51 a.m. CST.... |
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Habibi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
63. At my last "real" job, for Kodak. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
64. i was at work walking to another building when i heard the news |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
65. Called my friend in CA to make sure her husband, a pilot, was home still asleep |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
66. Worked the night before, got up to pee |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
67. I was having breakfast in a restaurant that is no longer there.. |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
68. Driving to work I heard Iraq had shot down a drone. When the attacks here happened... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
70. Employed. Aaah... the good old days. n/t |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
73. Slept until my roommate's clock radio said something about the President being "safe". |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
74. in midtown, wondering if i should take my emt-trained ass downtown |
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mulsh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
75. I was at home working on my computer. The local Jazz station's |
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Lifelong Protester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
76. walking into a class of fifth graders, one of them said," Ms. _____, |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
78. I remember silence. |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
81. I was at my small college in West Virginia at my work study |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
82. I was walking my 2 and a half year old dog who I had to put down earlier this year |
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blueamy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
83. Getting ready for work... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
84. Getting ready for work...when I got to work and after the plane hit the Pentagon, a good friend |
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architect359 (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
85. At home in Arlington VA |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
86. I was in lower Manhattan. Had gone under the WTC around 7 am |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
88. Driving my daughter to school |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
89. Literally walked around the house all day. |
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workinclasszero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
90. I had just got home from work when my ex called me and said.. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
91. On the way to work, listening to NPR. |
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Sterling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
92. I was living on Houston facing south. |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
93. I rolled out of bed a bit late, went to my computer, and tuned in to DU . . . |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
96. Absolutely. |
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condoleeza (464 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-11-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
98. I had fallen asleep with the TV on and woke up as the 2nd plane hit, |
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