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9/11 never forget

I had just been home a few days after many weeks working offshore as a commercial diver. I was able to see it all happen live on the news. My birthday is actually today, Sept. 11th. My birthday was never the same again and, in my mind, will never be a truly happy event ever again. An event like this was can never be forgotten.
 
i was farming and my mother called telling me we've been attacked and buy all the fuel we can hold. we had storage for close to 12k gallons of diesel and 3k of gasoline...........nope i didn't order any............well not THAT much. ordered enough to get thru the winter and finish farming
 
I was home, had retired from IT and was freelancing as a lot control specialist. I had gotten home a week earlier from a trip which included a meeting in the Trade Center. I turned on the tv just in time to see the second plane hit. Spent the rest of the day pretty much in a state of anger and shock. I wondered if the nice guys who bought my lunch were alive or not.

I did go down to the bridge plaza and sat watching the water, until I heard the strains of America the Beautiful as Canadians serenaded us from across the river. It was that day I became friends with the Canadian people forever.
 
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I was away in Miami for a street survival instructor course, (law enforcement). That days class didn't start till the afternoon for some night training. I woke up in my hotel room, turned on the TV just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. Watched all morning, then went to class. Was surprised they didn't just cancel the training.

Finally came home a week later. My wife had put our flags out, the big one, a bunch of little ones, kinda like she does for flag day, Memorial Day etc etc. And she's not even American, a German living here with me for 30+ years. Loves the US and more patriotic than most US citizens. Never Forget.
 
I was at a week-long agency training session ~300+ miles from my duty station. It was announced at the meeting & first we got a radio for news then someone got a small TV in and we were able to get news from that.

With all the air travel stopped 99% of the folks there from across the country had flown in whereas I had driven my own rig. Folks there started trying to find a way home either by a AMTRAC station about 40 miles away, or by trying to get a rental vehicle.

While I had my rig I was concerned about a run on the gas stations but in route back I was able to get what I needed, as well as supplies in case shortages occurred.

Got back fine & continued on with my job. But since, all that has influenced how I prepare for any long-distance trips from home.
 
I was called and told to stay home until more info from the site. I volunteered when the call came and I was told I would not be able to go to the site because of my age. My 2 friends that I would have traveled to the site with came down with cancer after they came home. My son was born on 9/11 so there is mixed emotions. On this day ever year I get at sunrise and attach the black strip to my flag in memory of that died because of that hanious crime. Both my son and I have been in the middle east while in the military. In 1982 the barracks in Beirut took the lives of some sons of the people I knew. Sorry to say I worry about the pot boiling over again with all that is happening now. I have grandkids and great grandkids as many do and I pray all will be safe. TAPS at 19 pm.🇺🇸
 
i was the head master at the A school for navy sheetmetal technicians... head master sounds better than course divisional asshoolle

we had to lock down the school, hold students in the classrooms for hours upon hours
then a HUGE all hands formation for the CO to tell us what we already knew, at 8 pm....got to love military efficiency
students had not been allowed to leave to eat all day. The civilians running the galley left and locked up.
real shitttt show of leadership. I was never so pissed off at a commander in my life. everything was NO NO NO
staff could not leave, to get the students food, every vending machine was stormed.
a few wives brought us dozens of pizzas to sneak in and feed the students. i got hammered over that the next week.
that was the week i decided 23 was enough and run out the last 12 months and go home

the next day it was surreal with instant changes to the base, the students, the navy, security
everyone was in a mental fog and could not believe what had happened.

still cannot believe how blind we had become.
 
I was in my office in Augusta. Heard about the first plane. Went in the conference room and turned on the tube just in time to see the second plane hit. The following 2 weeks I was in DC. Watching F16’s cruise low over the city with missles hanging off the weapons stations was surreal. And security on Government bldgs was suddenly very intense.
 
Was doing contract work for Hickam AFB and was staying downtown Honolulu due to return home the next day. Wife called me at 4AM and told me about the attack and to turn the TV on. Stunned. As soon as the sun rose I went out to the beach and the fleet left Pearl ASAP; they weren't going to get caught again. F-15 Cap from the HI Air National Guard was up and on patrol constantly. The delay getting a flight out was only about three days. I must say I haven't seen smooth running security at the airport like that since German airports during the Baader-Meinhof days. Locked and loaded; you were screened baggage scanned and searched and then on your way. Kudos to them. LA airport however...
 
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