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Sun, 11 September 2016 07:07  |
Ken Burton
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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.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] 9-11 [message #306941 is a reply to message #306938] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 11:07  |
Kingsley Coach
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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
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:43 PM, James Hupy wrote:
> Thanks for your opinion.
> Jim Hupy
> On Sep 11, 2016 8:18 AM, "Tim Conway" wrote:
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>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 11:00 AM, James Hupy wrote:
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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.
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>> This not the forum, or the day, to debate the US response to 9/11...
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>> Tim Conway
>> LI NY 78 PB
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| Re: 9-11 [message #306942 is a reply to message #306920] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 11:11 |
Scott Nutter
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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 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, Dave Lenzi super duty mid axle disc brakes, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera installed MSD Atomic EFI
Houston, Texas
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| Re: 9-11 [message #306950 is a reply to message #306920] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 11:42 |
jhbridges
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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
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: [GMCnet] 9-11 [message #306959 is a reply to message #306941] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 15:29 |
Ken Burton
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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
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| Re: [GMCnet] 9-11 [message #306985 is a reply to message #306959] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 19:57 |
tphipps
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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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| Re: 9-11 [message #306994 is a reply to message #306920] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 20:42 |
jknezek
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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
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| Re: [GMCnet] 9-11 [message #307005 is a reply to message #306985] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 23:00 |
Dolph Santorine
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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,
> On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Thomas Phipps wrote:
>
> 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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| Re: [GMCnet] 9-11 [message #307006 is a reply to message #307005] |
Sun, 11 September 2016 23:32 |
James Hupy
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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
On Sep 11, 2016 9:01 PM, "Adolph Santorine" wrote:
> 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,
>
>
>> On Sep 11, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Thomas Phipps wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> --
>> 1975 GMC Avion
>> KA4CSG
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