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13 yrs ago, 8:46 am

Murph

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Never forget

 

Nope, never will. 

 

Edit: I'm following Ari Fleischer today on Twitter, who is recalling that morning with the POTUS, at the school, in AF One, etc.  Its pretty amazing.  At one point AF One couldn't communicate with the bunker below the WH.

 

The fear of an internal attack was so great that they placed an armed guard at the stairs leading to the cockpit of AF One while they were flying in evasive manuevers per Cold War end of the world protocol.  

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**effort post**

Just barely turned 12.

It started like any other day. I woke up barely in time to get dressed, fix my hair, and eat one of those Eggo waffulls that they used to make at the time. It took a good two hours into classes in middle school before the news got to the students. I'm sure they knew beforehand but spent some time trying to figure out how to deliver the news but by the time we found out around 10:30, the towers had already collapsed. I was sitting in gym class, so it was still too early in the year to have us running around and they were still coordinating physicals and scoliosis tests and whatnot. Back then I was living mere miles away from manhattan so there were a lot of people who knew people that worked in the WTC. I think only three people from my town died though and I'd only heard of them after looking it up like a year ago. Some people had parents that worked there and got out, others had friends and acquaintances. The rest of the day was just no lessons and listening for your name on the intercom to be picked up to go home. I got my name called 7th period later on. On the way home, we drove up a modest bridge that goes over an abandoned railroad track near home and I saw what looked like a huge mushroom cloud over to the east. That was my first image of what had happened.

The internet was a different place back then. Remember this was before YouTube, and people were still communicating a lot through email. The Friday after all of this, my grandmother brings over pictures my uncle printed out with satan's face highlighted in the plume seconds after the second plane hit. People were still trying to process the magnitude of this. If you go back and watch the live footage people have posted on YouTube, the newscasters, probably the most articulate people you can find in an emergency situation, were so confused at what they were seeing they couldn't comprehend exactly what was happening. Back then for those who don't remember, the US was a different place. People are constantly on guard nowadays, but in 2001, people were comparatively aloof to threats, even domestic terrorism. The perception was that the US was untouchable and on 9/11 we found out just how wrong we were.

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I was sitting in my office when one of my guys came in and told me a plane had hit the WTC.  We all got online of course and just as news started coming in the internet became so slow it was hard to get anything... we resorted to listening to the radio.

 

Interesting day for sure.  I will never forget it.

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