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Poll: WHERE WERE YOU ON 9/11/01?
Poll: Did the terror of that horrible day ever stop haunting you?
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Posted 2 months ago Where were you on 9/11/01? These video's are a reminder that we shall NEVER FORGET! --Chris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkmsF0sDY0 WORLDS BIGGEST NEW YORK YANKEES FAN. PERIOD!
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| Posted 2 months ago
WORLDS BIGGEST NEW YORK YANKEES FAN. PERIOD!
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| Posted 2 months ago I was at the Illinois State Police range for SWAT school (2nd time). Everyone's pagers were going off. We had guys from Departments all over the Chicagoland area and some US Marshalls. Guys started talking about a plane crashing into the WTC Towers. Everyone thought it was some small private plane. Then someone said it was a commercial jet liner. Thoughts of a misguided accident came to mind. Then someone talked about the 2nd plane hitting the other Tower and mentioned that this was a terrorist attack. A sick felling hit everyone at training. Training was cancelled after a few hours (best part of the class) because this was not a time to shoot with everything going on. I still remember driving home and listening to the radio. The sight of O'Hare Airport (one of the busiest in the Nation) being dead calm as we drove past it was a little eerie. Our team was on standby, but not activated. I did not see any of the events on TV until I got home 2 hours later. Just because you trained for something, doesn't mean you're prepared for it. - Anonymous
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| Posted 2 months ago I heard Joe Dittmar speak at a conference last year. He is a survivor of the attack on that day and was in WTC 2 when it happened. He chronicles his experience from the day before to the day after it happened. The things he experienced and described were incredible. From losing a friend who needed to go back to use the washroom, to the face of an Officer fighting his way up the stairwell when everyone was going down, to the sight of the stairwell floor covered in laptops and women's shoes, to a security guard singing in the lobby to calm people. He also jokes about a Starbucks just across the street, still serving customers who were waiting in long lines, unfazed by the events. He remembers a female NYPD Officer walking into the store and yelling at everyone to leave and to shut the store down. He remembers the compassion of the citizens that day. Mr. Dittmar is not LE and is an insurance executive (ironic). I recommend everyone try to see him tell his story. He gives public presentations (he does not charge) and it will move you as it did me.....even to this day. Just because you trained for something, doesn't mean you're prepared for it. - Anonymous
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| Posted 2 months ago PETE114 says ...
That's what was so sad about the beginning of the horrible events of that day. It was so hard to believe, I think everybody thought it HAD TO BE a small private plane. Never in a million years would one think it was an unprovoked terrorist attack. When President Bush issued that all planes land, that's when it was serious business. Nope, none of us will ever forget that horrible day. Thanks, Pete, & God bless:) WORLDS BIGGEST NEW YORK YANKEES FAN. PERIOD!
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| Posted 14 days ago Marijuana Eradication Kentucky State Police, in a helicopter. Ordered on the ground immediately spent remainder of the day watching the news. |
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| Posted 14 days ago I had just worked off 3rd was in the bed, and was woken up when my parents called me, I got up and turned the tv on about 10 a.m. and watched in horror and disbelief, I called my dad he said son this is your generation's Pearl Harbor, now I've seen two!! What was so werid was going into work that night, I called my guys to 25 on a rual road near the lake, we looked at the mountains all around us and then looked up in the sky empty no planes just stars it was such a weird freaky feeling, empty, no one said hardly anything, we asked each other what is next? Yes a day we will never forget! God rest the precious souls who perished and were injuried, and God Bless those who helped in NY, and DC, and let us never forget Todd Bemer and the brave soul's that gave their lives to keep the plane from flying into Lord only knows what and killing even more life. GB Doug |
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| Posted 14 days ago I was standing at attention outside my commanders door in-processing my squadron. When the 2nd plane hit, the commander called me (and another guy in, to watch). After a few minutes, the commander answered a phone call, the base went into lock-down, and we (both new guys) ended up with Security Forces, and not our intended squadron.
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