9/11 Where were you?

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If it flies, I can crash it!

In Vehicle electrical design mock-up at one of the "Big 3" watching it live.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !

At the Department of Energy Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC, defense nuclear site. We went oh high alert that morning.

Sad, sad day that day. Still hurts.

I really, really can’t believe it has been 20 years. Still seems like yesterday.

God bless all who lost and/or gave their lives that day. And comfort their families on this anniversary.

Never forget. Never forget.

Earl

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Earl L. Cagle, Jr.
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TRA# 962
SAM# 73
Owner/Producer
Point 39 Productions

Rocket-Brained Since 1970

On vacation in Colorado, staying with my mom. My mom woke me up, said my sister had called and to turn on the TV - a plane had hit the World Trade Center.
I'm thinking 'this had better be good' to wake me up early on vacation - I'm thinking it was probably a Cessna or something like that. Turned on the TV just in time to see the second 767 hit the WTC

I was glued to the TV for the next several hours.

For a good portion of the time parked under a tree in the parking lot at work (Boeing's Renton plant) listening to the radio in my car.

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Bernard Cawley
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SAM 0061
AMA 42160
KG7AIE

I was driving between Milwaukee and Green Bay headed to a job--listening to it on the radio. One of my colleagues was in the air when the attacks happened and the flight had to ditch immediately.

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Never trust an atom. They make up everything.

4 out of 3 people struggle with math.

Chemically, alcohol IS a solution.

NAR# 94042
SAM# 0078

On the trading floor of Banc One Capital Markets, in downtown Chicago, watching it all unfold in real time. Remembering now that all the connections to Cantor Fitzgerald went dead.

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A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But high above the quiet streets on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions. Guy Noir, Private Eye.

Fox Valley Rocketeers: http://www.foxvalleyrocketeers.org

One of those moments in anyone's life that is impossible to forget. That first realization that America was under attack. All the lives that were lost. All the broken hearts of the people who lost loved ones and had to remain behind to grieve.

I clearly remember one of my co-workers informing me that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. Of course, I assumed it was an accident involving a small private plane. I remember my shock and anger when I learned that it was a terrorist attack. Those were the two immediate emotions............shock and anger.

Then news of the other 3 planes, and suddenly all planes grounded. Everywhere. I am in Canada, and airports everywhere here were pressed into action, to accept landing aircraft, no matter how many. I remember the people of Newfoundland taking passengers into their homes, because Newfoundland is not populous and simply didn't have the wherewithal to handle the sudden human rush on its soil.

I remember Canadians in general being incensed by this senseless act.

Yes, Earl, trust me, I will NEVER forget.

I was on active duty, DoD Space Test Program, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. We turned on the TV just in time to watch the plane hit the second tower. I knew the world had changed forever...

I was working at the Davis-Besse nuke plant in NW Ohio. My wife called to tell me she heard on the car radio that a plane had hit the WTC, and as she was talking to me the second one hit. I told erveryone in the cube farm just as the big TV that usually showed slide of the current plant performance and schedules suddenly switch to CNBC and we all watched. About an hour later they sent everyone home except operations, security and aa skeleton maintenance crew. I saw the towers collapse live on CNN.

THree days later they let everyone come back to the office but security was heavily armed and was searching every vehicle coming in.