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Was in a meeting conf call, checking the news while listening. When it showed up on CNN, messaged a friend saying something bad was happening and I didn't think it was an accident since it was light and clear out in NYC. I'll always remember what I was doing, like I think those who heard about Dec 7th, 41 and other major things over the years remember where they were.
 
I was in my office at UConn. Secretary said "turn on the tv".

I saw video showing the first plane hit the tower. Immediately remembered when a B-25 hit the Empire State building in 1943.


When the second plane hit the other tower, we knew the world had changed.
 
I was driving to work when I turned on the radio just in time to hear the announcer saying "the tower has collapsed" (different time zone than NYC) - when I got to the office most people were in the lounge area where there was a TV, what was available for internet at the time was well oversaturated so the radio and TV were where we went. I still keep a small TV with antennas in the office even now because of that - in a major crisis the internet is probably not going to be reliable if its even working.
 
I was a few blocks away from home going to work and heard it on the radio.
Turned back and watched the world change forever.
I knew right away, we would not do anything the same way, ever again.
A defining moment for me, not in a good way.
I saw exactly what is going on today, but I couldn't express it.
The initial loss of human life was much less than I expected.
But we made up for it in the ensuing years.
 
I was driving on the expressway into downtown Chicago. Heard things develop on the radio. The thing I remember most was the number of police cars racing past me going into the city, seemed like every available car was racing to downtown.
 
3798j said:
Historically it would appear to many that at no period in time was there anyone in control of the world.
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Yes, I agree that was an unfortunate choice of wording.
I can easily loose my ability to be articulate.
What I meant might have been, Unfortunately, no one in the world, since then, has been in control of anything.
It's like a runaway train of social, political and economic chaos.
That is what I felt then, though I couldn't predict then nor now just how.
I knew at the minute the second plane hit the towers that no Muslim in the world was safe.
I knew at the minute the second plane hit the towers that no one who ever got on an airplane was safe.
I knew at the minute the second plane hit the towers that there would always be someone trying to make a bigger statement of terror.
My wife who was watching it along side me always thinks I'm pessimistic.
And I hate with all my heart being right all the time, but I try to keep my mouth shut.
 
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