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NA
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 Posted - 09/11/2002 : 07:27:08
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jlombardo
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 08:28:48
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JIM..Thank you for starting this post...last year when our world changed, I was in my office at home struggling with Xactimate when the phone rang , and my wife told me that a plane had hit the WTC......for some strange reason I responded to her that it was a terrorist attack.....I hung up and put the TV on and watch as history unfolded before my eyes....just like it did some 30 years ago ...in a country a world away from here...except then I was young and was a participant.....last year I stood by and watched our country attacked...and therewasn't a damn thing I could do about it......How did I feel.....stunned...angry.....vengeful.....confused...why???? we try to help all those in need...when there is a diaster anywhere in the world...who are the first to respond...we,AMERICANS are....so Why???? when a madman uses chemicals to kill his own people and takes over a peaceful country...who are the first on the scene to defend the under dog????? we, Americans, are there......So why did 9/11/01 happen....
Last weekend ,my wife and I visited New York City for her Birthday....we did all the tourist things.......we also paid our respects at Ground Zero.....It is not an easy experience to explain....the WTC site does not evoke active emotions...it kinda nums you...and in the middle of thousands of other visitors to the site, it was very,very,quiet....a very uneasy quiet....The memorial boards at St Paul's Church, which is next to Ground Zero and at Grand Central Station are heart wrenching...for it is at these memorials that you you see the pictures of those who died, a year ago today......the emotions felt are very deep and body wrenching......I am 51,have been there and have the T-shirt to prove it....but I was not prepared for the strenght of the emotions felt at the memorial boards...........
It is sad that our children,grandchildren and all the children of the following generations will not know the AMERICA that most of us grew up with.....it is a crime that we AMERICANS can no longer walk up the stairway inside the Statue of Liberty......I guess I have rambled long enough........PLEASE, EVERYBODY REMEMBER NOT ONLY THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON 9/11/01 BUT LET US NOT FORGET THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT, DEAD AND ALIVE, FOR FREEDOM...AND ALL OUR SERVICE PERSONNEL WHOM ARE PROTECTING US ON THIS DAY....GOOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND GODBLESS AMERICA..........Respectfully, Joe Lombardo Jr.
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Russ
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 09:07:18
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| I dont think anyone will forget where they were on the morning of 9/11. I was in Chicago doing sewer backups for Jim Lakes at RAC, When I got a call from Jim. He told me a jet liner had hit the World Trade Center. I had 3 more appointments so I didnt think much of it. 45 minutes later Jim called and told me a second plane had hit the other tower. Jim told me to get out of downtown and go back to my room. I had one appointment that was a reschedule and I didnt want to cancel it so I went and Till my dying day I will not forget what I saw.The house was a $500,000 home and I walked in the livingroom and there was a 60" TV staring me in the face, and the moment I looked at it they showed the second plane hitting the south tower. I felt physically sick and told the Insured I couldnt finish her inspection and would reschedule her inspection. I got in my truck and headed for hwy 90 west. I didnt know it but Chicago had been ordered to evacuate the downtown area in case the sears tower was next.I was a vegetable for at least three days and coulndt seem to concentrate on anything. I called my wife and talked to her for at least two hours. I did nothing but watch CNN for 3 days. |
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sbeau4014
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 10:08:33
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| I had just finished up the floods in Houston and my wife and I had traveled to Branson for some R&R for a period of time. We were leaving the RV park to go over to have fun at Silver Dollar City when we rec. a call on our cell from a good friend telling us about the tragedy that was unfolding. We went back to the RV and watched the news for the next 2-3 hrs in total shock as to what was happening. Needless to say going to have a fun day at Silver Dollar City was not even a consideration after that. We ended up buying some acres in Branson the next day, and have returned back to Branson this year to remember and reflect on Sept 11th 2001 where we were when it originally happened. I hope to be back here in God's country every year on that sad anniversary. |
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CCarr
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 10:34:08
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| This morning I watched CNN for a few hours, until it started to hurt too much to watch the lingering grief of those more closely affected. So, I came into my home office, where I was last year, when working away on the computer my wife called me. She works for a multinational insurer, and after the first hit at WTC, she and others gathered in their media room and watched the horror unfold; and I went to our TV and tuned to CNN. Like millions of others that night and days later, we wondered about people we knew and had worked with in NYC. Our heart felt fears and concerns for their safety seemed so insignificant, relative to those with family directly involved. We just can not imagine the depth of sorrow, frustration and hate, many more people must still carry with them. However, at the same time America (my neighbour and land that we have roamed freely both for pleasure and work)has shown its' strength, resolve and determination to not allow such things to deter them. |
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KileAnderson
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Posted - 09/11/2002 : 21:46:08
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I was watching the Fox News channels morning show as I got dressed. I was getting ready to drive to a city about an hour away where I had a job locating and collecting info on repetitive loss structures for a flood mitigation program. The show came back from a comercial and kind of off handedly said they had just heard that a "commuter" plane had just struck the world trade center. The didn't have much info and were trying to get info on it. They managed to get a camera on the roof of their building and it showed a gaping hole with smoke billowing from it and I realised right then that it was more than a commuter plane.
I spent 6 years in the National Guard and one month every year we would have terrorist scenario in our training. The fist thing that popped into my mind was this is no accident. I walked into the bedroom to wake my girlfriend who is a TV news producer. I turned on the TV in the bedroom and was looking at her explaining what was going on when she pointed to the TV and exclaimed Holy****! I turned to see the fireball from the second plane hitting the building. She flew out of bed and said she was going into the station, even though her show doesn't go on until 10:00 pm.
I called my partner and he and I decided we would try to get some work done that day because we were on a deadline. We drove the hour and a half to the city we were working in. Him driving and me burning up the cell phone. Another adjuster friend of mine called and we were just speculating about what was really happening and I said "You know, If I was doing this and I really wanted to strike a blow to the country, I'd hit the Pentagon." Not two seconds after I said that we heard on the radio that the Pentagon had been hit. It got really quiet in that truck for a good 10 seconds.
We got to the first house we were going to document that day and when I knocked on the door the lady of the house answered and over her shoulder I watched on the TV as the first tower collapsed. She didn't say a word, she and I just stood there and watched. Then my buddy yelled from the truck, "hey, one of the towers just collapsed." We did everything we had to do at that house and decided to head home. On the way home, an vendor called me to put me on standby to work the phone bank at a "Major Airline in Dallas". For the rest of the week we just watched TV and did paperwork. We never got sent to Dallas. |
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RJ
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 02:29:19
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Jgoodman
USA
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 11:27:41
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I had just arrived here at my computer services office, which I rent in the back of a boat showroom. I was in the middle of a massive revision to my adjuster claims management system. Brought up my browser and headed to www.catadjuster.org to check the bulletin board and forums, as was my habit at the time.
There was a bulletin board post saying that the WTC has just been attacked and that this was not a joke.
I tried to go to cnn.com and the page would not load. No news web pages would load. Basically so many people were trying to find out what happened, that the result was a huge denial of service attack; that is the web servers were overwhelmed with requests for info that they became inoperable.
Before long a boat salesman showed up. We found an old TV that was used to show videotapes. We rigged an antenna and were struck dumb in horror.
I was unable to think coherently for days. I was imagining tens of thousands of deaths. We were lucky that more did not perish.
My heart goes out to all that lost loved ones that day.
God Bless America
Jeff Goodman
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Todd_Summers
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Posted - 09/12/2002 : 12:22:57
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I have been working, away from home, for all but about 3 months out of the last year and a half. Luckily those 3 months, September thru November, is when I was home with my family. It may have driven me crazy not to have been with my wife and kids during that time. So , My wife and I were in our living room, witnessing the horrific events. The local news said that schools would remain open, but that if you wished to pick up your children you could, and we did. We tried (probably unconvincingly) to explain to them that we were safe, and we prayed. Since that day, the attack has directly affected my life as a result of two seperate incidents. The first was when my good friend , mentor and fellow CADO mamber, Claude Wilson, was working WTC claims in NYC and was involved in a head-on collision, there, nearly lost his life and after several weeks (months) in a coma, he fought hard, came out of it and is still healing. THANK GOD ! The second is around January of 2002, my best friend (besides my wife) and college roommate was killed in a mysterious car fire in the parking lot of a redneck bar in Ft. Worth. I don't know if this is related for sure, but he was a muslim from Pakistan and for some reason always liked that damn hillbilly music. I had worried quite a bit about his safety following the attack, and then this. One thing I learned from attending the "funeral" is that the muslim's have much less respect for the dead, the body, than they do for the soul.
My heart also goes out, but my anger remains within.
God Bless us all,
God Bless America
and may the evil ones burn in Hell !
Todd Summers
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