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Originally posted by MAGICLIT:
I'm going to get my guns from my safe
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ha! i too woke up to hear the news. I work for myself and had a relatively easy day planned for 9-11-01..we were going to start at 10am.....replace a few doors, trim..easy work, small job.
i awoke at 9 and turned on Howard Stern....they were talking about
a plane hitting the tower....i assumed it was a small cessna type. the BabaBooey came in and said ANOTHER plane hit the other tower..they all ridiculed him, no one believed...i turned on ABC and saw the towers burning.
i assumed the first crash was an accident, an d the second was a news helicopter or something...someone surveying the first tower.....then the pentagon was hit and there was still another plane under control by terrorists.
i live close to NYC..on the Long Island Sound...i imagine d the worst case scenario...more attacks on NYC, people with bombs and rocket launchers executing their plans and escaping to freedom....i was living about 3/4 mile from the beach at that time.......i opened my safe, took out my gear, and drove to th ebeach, to see if i could see the smoke. I walked out onto our pier (the farthest point from shore so i could see down the L.I. Sound) and was talking to my now wife.....that was when she told me the first tower fell. I remember a fisherman asking for an update, and telling him th e first tower collapsed. he had a strange look on his face, almost like he felt guilty he was fishing while this went on.....i left ASAP and went back to the TV to keep current.
luckily the terror ended with Flight 93 going down in a n empty field. Those passengers definately brought that plane down, either by their own hands on the controls in a struggle, pressuring th e terrorists so that they did it themselves rather than be caught, or by simply opening the hatch and decompressing the cabin, "sinking" it.....they knew the plane was going to be used a s a weapon.
heros.