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09-11-2018, 04:27 PM
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9/11
I had just returned from a business trip to NYC the night before.
Ironically, I stood at the base on the twin towers for my very first time on 9/10/01, less than 24 hours before the attack. I was scheduled to have a late meeting locally in the Midwest on 9/11 and was downstairs eating breakfast when I got a call from my mother in law. When I answered the residential land line, which I never do, my mother in law said "Oh, Scott, you're in town? I thought that you were in NY?". When I told her I had just returned home the night before, she told me to immediately turn on the news where they were showing a replay of the planes hitting the twin towers. I was speechless....  Needless to say, I was incredibly fortunate and my heart goes out to everyone that was in NY, or had friends and family that were in NYC on 9/11. I visited the site of the twin towers in January of 2002. The memorial at the site and the visual is perhaps the most powerful memory of my lifetime and cannot be expressed in words. For anyone that has not attended the 9/11 museum in NYC, I would highly recommend that you do so. My family & I visited the museum in 2018 & it is extremely well done and exceptional in every way. Peace and never forget 9/11. Last edited by Scott Garner; 09-12-2018 at 08:13 PM. 
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09-11-2018, 06:22 PM
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I remember I was in AP History class and another teacher came into the room and whispered something to my teacher and left. Then maybe 20 minutes later the same teacher was back again. This time we were told that students were being sent to the gym. They had all these TV's set up and no one really had any idea what was going on. We all found out together.
I was lucky. I grew up right outside of NYC but I didn't have any connection to it. My parents both worked in Jersey. None of my extended family still worked or lived in the city either. Kids around me were fired up and talking about war and things like that. I remember thinking about how I was going to be 18 soon and had heard a lot of stories from my dad about how his older brother worried every day about the draft during Vietnam. Nothing like 9/11 had ever really happened before and I didn't know what it meant for me. Last edited by packs; 09-11-2018 at 06:29 PM.
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09-12-2018, 06:18 PM
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09-12-2018, 07:28 PM
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I was at work. I work in a machine shop and we couldn't get AM radio to well. We were getting most of our news by listening to Howard Stern. I specifically remember when they said that one plane crashed in western Pa. I told my friend, "there were heroes on that plane."
When I got home from work I emailed Richard Simon to see if he was OK as he was the only person I know who lived close to the attack. The next night I went for a walk with my fiance'. I made sure to notice that there were no planes in the sky as you may never see that again. strangely, exactly one week earlier my parents and some friends went to NYC and went to the top of the Empire State Building.
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My life didn't turn out the way I expected...Roy Hobbs Baseball's hard. You can love it but it doesn't always love you back. It's like dating a German chick... Billy Bob Thornton-Bad News Bears Last edited by mcgwirecom; 09-12-2018 at 07:30 PM.
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09-18-2018, 11:32 AM
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Recently picked these up...Looking forward to framing them with a nice relative piece....
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