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The day before (A 911 remembrance Thread)

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I used to call on a customer in the WTC…. Luckily not that day.
 
All the people that were lost?
Did you do that?
 
mikephillips said:
Company I was working for had offices in one of the towers. Fortunately for them they were down near ground floor so no one was lost.
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A couple of TV related personalities died that day. Barbara Olsen, a lawyer and TV personality who was often on CNN and Fox as a pundit, was on her way to tape an episode of Politically Incorrect (Bill Maher's show) when she was lost when Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.

Also, David Angell and his wife. Angell was a writer and producer, who, among other things, was the producer of the hit show, Frasier (one of my favorites). They were on Flight 11, the first plane to hit the towers, heading home from vacation.
 
I remember watching this with my Wife when it first aired.
We just stood there silently watching it.
 
I remember walkin' rite up to the ramp to see relatives off @ O'Hare field, trapsin around the airport late a nite to where folks were returning from and what was going on in distent places...like a field tri[p for youth.
 
Takes me a while to quell my anger and angst, so thinking on it I recall the morning as this: Was watching the NBC morning news, first reports were that a "small aircraft" had hit the World Trade Center. A shot of the building showing a rupture outlining a hole having the profile of an airliner. My first thought was: "That's stupid! That was no SMALL aircraft! And it's no accident." Mitsy was prepping to leave for work, time passed and the second strike occurred. I told Her then: "We're under a terrorist attack. Don't leave." She didn't listen, nothing like that was in her paradigm. She left for her office. As news of the Pentagon hit was out she called from her office to tearfully say she was coming home and asked what we should do. My response was that she should get home and we would go to a grocery store, stock up on canned stuff and wait for info on anything happening on the west coast. The Capitol was being evacuated in expectation of another plane coming in, a few heroic folks kept that from happening as we learned later, with a crater in Pennsylvania. My opinion of the response to the event and subsequent actions will be kept to myself, but know this; the people doing that deed think in terms of generations. We don't. This is not over.
 
I suspected it was an attack when I saw the first one on a news feed while listening to a conf call. Just didn't make sense to me that on a bright clear day two professional pilots would fail to see the building in front of them. Knew it had to be when the second was announced.
 
I got a call from a colleague telling me that a "small plane" hit the building..... I knew better since you can't fly "small planes" over Manhattan without a transponder AND at a higher altitude.
As part of my job I used to call on customers in the WTC regularly.
 
My wife worked for IBM at the time. Because Monday was a travel day, most of the people who would have been in the offices weren't there.
 
We where on a flight returning from England. Got redirected at the border back to Canada….was a very strange time for us as we had no idea what was happening as all mobile phone service was jammed by the airport.
 
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