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[OT] where were you 9/11?



Lets see.  I was in ranks for our morning muster at Trident Refit
Facility Bangor, Washington.  The Master Chief asked if anyone was
from or had family in NYC.  They pulled those guys aside and after
they were out of earshot they told us that an aircraft had hit one of
the twin towers, and they did not know if it was an accident or
deliberate.  Call your families he said and tell them not to expect
you home for quite some time.

We went back to our shops and we could hear something that sounded
like artillery.  No idea what it was at the time.  We had just had a
big earthquake that year that had fractured the walls so we weren't
sure.  We watched the 2nd plane hit and then the towers fall.

We got word to lock down the entire base, we had a sentry on every
door, and we weren't allowing anyone in or out.  Most of us didn't
bring food as we commonly went to the mess hall or out to eat.  It
seemed pretty selfish to think of food at a time like that.

I was standing my post that morning and I looked out and saw the
F/A-18's circling the base.  (the source of the booms)  I won't talk
about it here but look up Bangor to see why we instantly put fighters
up there.  ALOT to protect. I think that was when it really hit me...
seeing the planes circling.

They finally let us go home late that night and I waited in line FOUR
hours the next morning to get on base.  They searched EVERYTHING.
On 9/10/07, Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thinking about the job I had going to Canada reminded me of 2001 and
> hence what my day was like when the towers fell.  I know half of you
> hate me and are afraid to respond despite being grown men but I thought
> this might be interesting since the world changed.  Not political, just
> real life story sharing depending on your time zone or location.
>
> I listened to the initial reports as I got ready for work at 8 am.  The
> second plane hit just as I and the ex-gf were about to go out the door
> to our jobs so I listened to the radio on my 20 minute commute.
>
> My employer had recently completed a brand new global headquarters and I
> was lucky enough to have a nouveau riche Henry Miller cubicle there
> temporarily.  There were multiple conference rooms but the main one in
> our wing (Science & Technology) had room for 60 and all mod cons as far
> as projection TV and buzz-down screen.
>
> We all gathered and watched as the drama collapsed on CNN.  The VP was
> there right next to us lowly technicians and nobody said much of
> anything.  "It looks like a movie," I blurted with regret (but then I
> regret everything I say.)
>
> Tuesday was my team's weekly 10 am conference call with Switzerland and
> I found my supervisor in a small room blabbing about nothing.  I told
> him the latest by drawing crumbling buildings on the whiteboard and he
> shrugged it off, muted the phone, and said he would watch it on tv that
> night.  The Swiss were largely unaware of the magnitude of events and at
> the end of their day, just wanting to go home.
>
> Luckily I had planned to take the afternoon off to go sailing with my
> buddies.  Work didn't seem doable by lunch and the ones who shrugged it
> off seemed even more surreal than the events themselves.  I got back in
> the car and went home.  My one friend was ready, he had the day off from
> his fish delivery job so we went to the slacker den of the other and
> found him sitting amongst cheeto bags and beer bottles watching tv.
>
> Got him in the car and headed south an hour to the boat.  We declared a
> radio moratorium halfway down and sailed the day away, the only boat on
> the lake, with our US flag flapping in a nice breeze.  Checked in at the
> smalltown bar that night and found some very angry locals.  Went home
> and crashed.  The end.
>
>
>
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