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J_Dee

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Some friends and I were on this subject earlier, and I was just curious.

I was scheduled to start a teaching job on 9/12 and got called in a day earlier a little after 8 am to sub. As I strolled into the school a little before 9, I wasn't aware that anything was even going on. I walked into my dad's classroom and saw him and everyone else staring at a television, and then then Flight 175 hit the South Tower.
 
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In a hayfield on our farm. We are in a major flyaway here and it just seemed strange not seeing any planes at all that day. Got home late and turned on the news. Damn.
 
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Ron Mehico

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HagginHall1999 said:
****...that was crazy.

Royal Lex, watching the Today show before class. Someone said a helicopter hit WTC and then saw second one live...if I am remember correctly.
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Ya man it was nuts. You woke me up and said “Hey man you need to wake up, you really need to see this, I think somethings happening” Still vividly remember that. We were in the living room and then the second plane hit and I had to go to class. Then Jay and Sohill were afraid to leave the apt because there was a guy driving around punching Indians in the face lol
 
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HagginHall1999

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Ron Mehico said:
Ya man it was nuts. You woke me up and said “Hey man you need to wake up, you really need to see this, I think somethings happening” Still vividly remember that. We were in the living room and then the second plane hit and I had to go to class. Then Jay and Sohill were afraid to leave the apt because there was a guy driving around punching Indians in the face lol
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Then there is ole me...Opie from Kentucky...ha
 
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Bill - Shy Cat

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At my office, with TV on in background. Thought the first plane was an accident. Then, when second plane hit, we all knew it was planned. Next day, there were no planes or jet trails in the sky.
 
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UKvisitor_rivals101449

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I was suffering a hangover when I woke up on 9/11. Real. I had a right broke clean off ankle recovery going on. (I broke my right foot. (It was 90 deg break of my right leg on the day Cawood died. I was hanging a sheet on Euclid ave (across from the gas station), housing that said The day the music died. I fell off the porch)
This stuff now beats any of that stuff then. I know! No body asked.
 
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ganner918_rivals60369

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High school, sophomore year. Walked into second period and someone told me someone bombed the Pentagon. Told him "you're on crack," but then the teacher turns the tv on and we spend most of the rest of the day either watching TV, or having our old priest religion teacher tell us we're at war now. Then my Spanish teacher told us no tv we're doing class and made us have a normal class.
 
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High school Chem class. Buddy was out roaming the halls first period and came back in to tell the teacher he needed to turn the TV on.
 
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At work. We in the downstairs plastics lab when a guy came through and said he heard a plane had hit the WTC. I looked online, expecting to see that some poor bastard in a Piper Cub had clipped it while sightseeing. We were shocked to see a jet had hit it, and then the phone rang. Our boss told us to drop what we were doing and come up to the big conference room. We walked in and pretty much everyone else in our group was already there watching it on the TV. I was looking straight at the TV when I saw the other jet approach, thinking WTF? when it hit. We all just sat in relative silence as the rest of the day unfolded. Around lunchtime they told us that anyone who wanted to go home could leave. My wife was working night shift that week, so I stayed so she could get some sleep. Just a horrific day.
 
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WildcatFan1982

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Freshman at U.K. turned on the tv and was like ‘wtf am I watching?!’ and my brother ran in and said ‘are you watching this?!’
 
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ukalum1988

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I was in Houston for a training class. I had just started my new (current) job a week earlier. My boss had signed me up before I showed up for work.

At this point my wife and then 18-month son were still in Baltimore, and i had flown from Evansville to Baltimore for the weekend, then Baltimore to Houston for the class.

Thankfully I picked up a rental car when I flew into Houston. Right as we started on the first day, the first plane hit. We started the class, at the first break we learned the second tower was hit. Not long after the Pentagon was hit and it obviously terrorism.

The instructors announced they would push through and go through the three day class, but would refund anyone who wanted one. I think two people out of 30 left; the rest of us stayed.

At the end of the class, planes still weren’t flying, so I had to drive from Houston to Baltimore, spending the night in Huntsville AL. Unforgettable experience driving across the country listening to the aftermath.

it was just so crazy managing a transition to a new job, having to sell our house, moving my wife and son, etc. Sorry for the long post, just a lot of memories.
 
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bthaunert

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I was living and working in Washington DC at the time. I was at work at George Washington University which is relatively close to the White House. Most people left to go home, but I stayed at work. I think I left around 6:00pm and it was the most surreal thing every. Military police on almost every corner and the Metro was basically empty. I’ll never forget it
 
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Blueisbest

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I had gotten off work that morning and went straight to the radiator repair shop. They had no TV but we were all getting our info from a radio in the shop. Couldn't wait to get home to see it for myself.
 
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The-Hack

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UKvisitor said:
I had a right broke clean off ankle recovery going on.
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Ouch!

I was a County Attorney, that day, in a Fiscal Court meeting, likely smoking a Pall Mall non-filter (we are on Tobacco Road) and a staff member of our County Judge interrupted and said a plane had hit one of the towers.

There were only thirty or so folks, at the meeting, and they were silent. I broke the silence saying “a B-24 hit the Empire State Building in ‘44, and it held up.” I asked the staff member if it was foggy in New York. She did not know.

We adjourned about the time the second plane hit.

There were 10 of us watching.

I said “we’re going to f$&k somebody up real bad for this.”

Went back to my public office and we sat around a radio for 6 hours. The phone only rang once that afternoon.

I went to the 911 office at 6:00 pm, and packed a dinner, expecting a deluge of anger/panic/domestic violence/mental health petitions, etc. The phones were silent. We had 2 after hours calls in 14 days following 9/11 that required my attention.

Whenever I think about it, I think we haven’t f$&ked ‘em up, enough.
 
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The-Hack

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ukalum1988 said:
Unforgettable experience driving across the country listening to the aftermath.
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The highways through my County were packed Thanksgiving weekend in ‘01, even though commercial flights had resumed (I think).

The UK/IU football game was postponed until early December in ‘01, and I went to it. Jared Lorenzen found out he was going to be a Dad the night before, and we dropped the game.
 
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UKvisitor_rivals101449

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The-Hack said:
Walks with a limp; prostate problems before 45, and answers to the name of “Lucky!”
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I loved this KY guy as an actor (RIP): [A guy to get drunk with]





What Harry Dean Stanton Taught Me About Life

"Everything Harry Dean Stanton has done in his career, and his life, has brought him to his moment of triumph in Lucky, wrote Variety. “It is quite simply, the performance of a lifetime.”
 
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I lived in NYC from 99-02. Had just got back from a week in KY(for my 10 yr reunion over Labor Day weekend) on the Sunday before.

Worked in...............the Trump Tower!! Was walking up 5th when the first plane hit but didn't have a clue. Got to my desk and nobody was around which was odd. A girl came by and said that a plane had hit the WTC and they were in the conference room watching. Though it was probably a small plane so got to work. She came back out later and said a 2nd plane hit. That's when I went in to watch.

Finally made it back over to Hoboken about 7:30 that night.
 
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The-Hack said:
Seriously, did you have to walk a bridge? I remember thousands on foot walking over a bridge back to Jersey that evening.
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No. After walking around and finding both of my sisters, who did have to walk back to where they lived in Queens, I went to catch a ferry around 5. It was a huge line and I was near the back. After waiting and not moving for over an hour somebody came up and told us the PATH train from 34th street was open. Got cleaned up then went back to Pier A to watch. An eery silence from thousands.
 
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UK_Dallas

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The funny thing is one of my sisters had a HS friend that wrote for our local paper. She wrote an article about my sisters being okay, even quoted my dad multiple times. Didn't mention me once......
 
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MarvinHagler89

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7th grade class. A teacher ran in to say WTC had been hit. We were watching it live, was pretty crazy thing to see for a 12 year old
 
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sluggercatfan

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Jon_D said:
Some friends and I were on this subject earlier, and I was just curious.

I was scheduled to start a teaching job on 9/12 and got called in a day earlier a little after 8 am to sub. As I strolled into the school a little before 9, I wasn't aware that anything was even going on. I walked into my dad's classroom and saw him and everyone else staring at a television, and then then Flight 175 hit the South Tower.
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At work and l rember the exact spot l was when l first heard.
 
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michaeluk26

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I was sitting in first period in sociology, the highest I'd ever went to school. Our teacher got a phone call and turned the TV on. We think it was an accident. Not 5 minutes later the second plane hit and I still didn't get the clue.

But my very prescient teacher turned to us immediately our lives would be forever changed and boy was he right.

I was becoming a member of the ARMY the very next day. Soon as school was over was off to basic. Only I ended up fighting Iraqis who never attacked us. The one good thing about being there, and this is what we have to believe, that our presence was drawing them to attack us there than at home.

Finally got to Afghanistan, about a decade to late. Didn't make it two months.

But yeah that day changed my life.
 
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Crawfords Corner

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I was sleeping because I didn't work until noon. My mother called me and told me about a plane crashing in to the WTC. I thought it was maybe just a small plane so I went back to bed. She called me back a couple of minutes later and asked if I was watching. I said, no. She said you need to get up so I did.

Boy do I wish I stayed asleep. Watching that first tower collapse, no words. Then the second.....
 
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