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Ken B

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I have been watching the History Channel today and the memories are still as clear today as they were 15 years ago. My Daughter and I were in a hotel
in St. George, UT. We woke up to seeing the 9-11 images on TV that morning. We did not immediately realize how enormous this incident was. We drove
on to Las Vegas that day. Everybody was going crazy on the strip that day and the days following. Airplanes were not flying except those out of
Nellis, so every time an airplane flew over, everyone looked up to see what kind it was. When we checked in to a hotel, we were mobbed by people
wanting to know what airline we used to get there. We were suppose to go Mexicali to meet a friend but they closed the border, so Las Vegas it was
for us.

I'm sure everyone here can remember what they were doing this day 15 years ago. I think I'll switch channels as the memories as to what happened that
day are not good. It is funny how something that happened 2500 miles away and 15 years ago can affect you.
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
 
Morning's newspaper had a dozen or so libs sniveling about their personal
feelings relative to whether or not they felt safer after the U.S. response
to 9-11. Makes for interesting reading. My personal feelings on this is
based upon my visit to the memorial site at the World Trade Center
including the names etched into the surrounding railings of the reflecting
fountains.
Personally, I think somebody is long overdue for some SERIOUS PAYBACK.
Heck, it is hardly safe to drive your GMC anywhere. (GMC content)
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 GMC ROYALE 403

> I remember how the people in Gander Newfoundland took care of all the
> stranded people from over 52 airplanes.
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> Morning's newspaper had a dozen or so libs sniveling about their personal
> feelings relative to whether or not they felt safer after the U.S. response
> to 9-11.

This not the forum, or the day, to debate the US response to 9/11...

Tim Conway
LI NY 78 PB
 
Thanks for your opinion.
Jim Hupy

>
> > Morning's newspaper had a dozen or so libs sniveling about their personal
> > feelings relative to whether or not they felt safer after the U.S.
> response
> > to 9-11.
>
> This not the forum, or the day, to debate the US response to 9/11...
>
> Tim Conway
> LI NY 78 PB
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And in Nova Scotia....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/september-11-attacks-and-halifax-s-response-remembered-1.3223825
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/canada/9-11-day-planes-stood-still/

Mike in NS

> Thanks for your opinion.
> Jim Hupy

>

> >
> > > Morning's newspaper had a dozen or so libs sniveling about their
> personal
> > > feelings relative to whether or not they felt safer after the U.S.
> > response
> > > to 9-11.
> >
> > This not the forum, or the day, to debate the US response to 9/11...
> >
> > Tim Conway
> > LI NY 78 PB
> >
> >
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Michael Beaton
1977 Kingsley 26-11
1977 Eleganza II 26-3
Antigonish, NS

Life is too short to hold a grudge; slash some tires and call it even !
 
I got beck to the us from Paris the night before the attacks in nyc. My mom called me early on the 11th and asked me if I was watching tv. I said
no, and she said turn it on, I ask what channel. She said it didn't matter. Then the 2nd tower is hit. Awful, looked like a bad movie....
And yes, the Canadians were VERY good to us. We had about 10 crews and pax in gander, goose,St Johns, and Halifax. Not enough hotels so the locals
opened up their homes to all of them..
I prefer to watch football today..
--
Scott Nutter
1978 455 Royale Center Kitchen, Quad bags.
Houston, Texas
 
Two tragedies I had the luck - ill or otherwise - to be standing in our studios watching: Challenger exploding and the Towers being hit. I was
doubly concerned about the terrorists because we worried that they might also have sent a planeload to crash into the Capitol with the advice, "If you
don't see the gold dome in time, just go for the big round building sticking up out of downtown". Which building held one of my RF plants and a bunch
of ancillary gear.

--johnny
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'76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.

"Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring when I think about my dirty life and times" --Warren Zevon
 
Heather and I were suppose to go to Mexicali and then to the Reno Air Races. At Mexicali we could not get across the border, and the FAA cancelled
the Air Races. We ran in to a lot of people stranded in Las Vegas. One we met was buying a car to drive back to New York (about 2500 miles). Every
rental car in town was out. People were renting them for local use and taking them back home to places all over the country. We got our rental
before 9-11 so we had not problems. I said that I could think of worse places to be stranded for a week or two. We ended up going to Grand Canyon
and several other national parks. The hotels were charging 1/2 rate because people were leaving town and replacement tourists were not coming in.

We did not come back home for about two weeks. We were traveling all over the place. I had a friend stuck in some little airport in New Mexico for
over a week. The FAA sent him there when they grounded everybody.

--
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
 
I was at work, setting up a computer system to train some Brits on a specific piece of software (name deliberately omitted). In the classroom, I had
installed a 42" plasma screen as the instructor's work station. When not in use, it was on CNN news feed. When the first plane hit, we wondered, when
the second plane hit, we locked down and went into classified network. Became a hectic day.
Marilyn was at work, in the Navy Annex building nearest to the Pentagon. She heard the plane pass very close to her building, went to the window and
watched as the plane hit the Pentagon. She called me, left her office building, everything was shutdown, departed for home, and got there about eight
hours later. All cell towers were taken over by Feds, so no traffic was passed.
A bit of a trying day. A girl in our office lost her husband that day.
Tom, MS II
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1975 GMC Avion
KA4CSG
 
I was a year into my first job working for Bloomberg on the assistance desk. We were one of the last hardlines of communication to cut out of Tower 2.
The desk received many electronic cries for help and directions from people trapped in Tower 2 including 3 of our employees, one a friend and
contemporary. He sent a message to a coworker that it was loud and dark and they were heading to the stairwell. From above the 80th floor they had no
chance and it was the last anyone heard from him. As were many of the other messages we received and helplessly tried to respond to.

Jim Hupy, if you want to politicize this day with your garbage that is your right, but many of us grieve actual people and events. Respect for and
during the remembrance of this tragedy should be upheld by decent people.
--
Thanks,
Jeremy Knezek
1976 Glenbrook
Birmingham, AL
 
It is a day I will remember.

I did my undergraduate at an NYC college. I had friends there. Some, not all I was able to contact later and confirm their survival.

We live near Detroit Metro Airport (KDTW) and ended up giving more than a few stranded travelers lifts to connections.

Matt
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SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
 
Tom- thanks for sharing.

The first plane hit. I brought a 13" set into the office, just in time to watch the second.

We had about 18 employees at the time. One was in Phoenix, where she stayed until the airlines flew again. The one in Nebraska rented a car and drove home.

We grabbed as much cash as we could from the bank, filled all the cars and every jerry can we could find. I sent everyone home as they were closing the schools.

The next few days were eerily quiet. There's an approach fix for Pittsburgh just south of us- we don't hear them, but we were used to seeing them.

Then in September 2001, they were gone.

My parents could see the smoke when driving through the village in which I spent my formative years. (North Jersey). Everyone from that area knew someone who was murdered on 9/11

The next town over put up the name of a victim who was an alumnus or a parent on the board in front of the school every week. It took them an entire school year to get through it.

I would prefer not to have to go through this kind of event again.

Dolph Santorine

DE N8JPC

Wheeling, West Virginia

1977 ex-Palm Beach TZE167V100820
1-ton, Sullybuilt Bags, Reaction Arms, 3.70 LSD, Manny Transmission, EV-6010,

>
> I was at work, setting up a computer system to train some Brits on a specific piece of software (name deliberately omitted). In the classroom, I had
> installed a 42" plasma screen as the instructor's work station. When not in use, it was on CNN news feed. When the first plane hit, we wondered, when
> the second plane hit, we locked down and went into classified network. Became a hectic day.
> Marilyn was at work, in the Navy Annex building nearest to the Pentagon. She heard the plane pass very close to her building, went to the window and
> watched as the plane hit the Pentagon. She called me, left her office building, everything was shutdown, departed for home, and got there about eight
> hours later. All cell towers were taken over by Feds, so no traffic was passed.
> A bit of a trying day. A girl in our office lost her husband that day.
> Tom, MS II
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Jeremy, I am sorry that you suffered the loss of someone you knew
personally on 9-11. You are not alone. All Americans suffered a huge loss
on that day. More victims of coordinated attacks than at any time
previously to that day. I mean you no disrespect. Please afford me the
same. I did not bring death and destruction of innocent civilians to
America. Others did, and they died that day believing they were doing the
right thing. And more of them exist, are among us today, and are plotting
further violent acts. It is a way of life for them. This is the reality of
September 11. If we as a Nation do not demonstrate a unified opposition to
terrorism, we will have it with us for a very long time. My point.
If we can't talk about it today of all days, then when would be a good
day? After their next attack?
Jim Hupy

> Tom- thanks for sharing.
>
> The first plane hit. I brought a 13" set into the office, just in time to
> watch the second.
>
> We had about 18 employees at the time. One was in Phoenix, where she
> stayed until the airlines flew again. The one in Nebraska rented a car and
> drove home.
>
> We grabbed as much cash as we could from the bank, filled all the cars and
> every jerry can we could find. I sent everyone home as they were closing
> the schools.
>
> The next few days were eerily quiet. There's an approach fix for
> Pittsburgh just south of us- we don't hear them, but we were used to seeing
> them.
>
> Then in September 2001, they were gone.
>
> My parents could see the smoke when driving through the village in which I
> spent my formative years. (North Jersey). Everyone from that area knew
> someone who was murdered on 9/11
>
> The next town over put up the name of a victim who was an alumnus or a
> parent on the board in front of the school every week. It took them an
> entire school year to get through it.
>
> I would prefer not to have to go through this kind of event again.
>
>
> Dolph Santorine
>
> DE N8JPC
>
> Wheeling, West Virginia
>
> 1977 ex-Palm Beach TZE167V100820
> 1-ton, Sullybuilt Bags, Reaction Arms, 3.70 LSD, Manny Transmission,
> EV-6010,
>
>

> >
> > I was at work, setting up a computer system to train some Brits on a
> specific piece of software (name deliberately omitted). In the classroom, I
> had
> > installed a 42" plasma screen as the instructor's work station. When not
> in use, it was on CNN news feed. When the first plane hit, we wondered, when
> > the second plane hit, we locked down and went into classified network.
> Became a hectic day.
> > Marilyn was at work, in the Navy Annex building nearest to the Pentagon.
> She heard the plane pass very close to her building, went to the window and
> > watched as the plane hit the Pentagon. She called me, left her office
> building, everything was shutdown, departed for home, and got there about
> eight
> > hours later. All cell towers were taken over by Feds, so no traffic was
> passed.
> > A bit of a trying day. A girl in our office lost her husband that day.
> > Tom, MS II
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