7 years on.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
We honour you.
:rose: I was at Tech-Ed, so I saw it before hearing about it. Everyone was standing fixed before TV's in the coffee shops etc. just after the planes had hit.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Back then I was taking the bus/subway and I was in an unusually happy mood. As usual I did not turn on the TV or radio so I like every work day walked my mile to the subway stop and got on the subway minding my business (with the same big smile on my face). 15 minutes later I got to town and people were talking about some towers falling down. I had no clue at all what they were talking about but I was having a great day. The sky was completely clear (this was very rare in Pittsbrugh) and I was very happy (also rare at that time). 30 minutes later I finally get to work. (WoW I can't believe I spent 1 hour on public transportation to go 5 miles...) Anyways when I got to work there were a bunch of nurses (work in a hospital) crowded around a TV in a patient room. On the screen I saw the smoke as a plane hit the first tower and that wiped the smile off of my face. :omg: I hope no one that day thought I was actually happy about the attack. I had no idea.
John
modified on Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:48 PM
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Back then I was taking the bus/subway and I was in an unusually happy mood. As usual I did not turn on the TV or radio so I like every work day walked my mile to the subway stop and got on the subway minding my business (with the same big smile on my face). 15 minutes later I got to town and people were talking about some towers falling down. I had no clue at all what they were talking about but I was having a great day. The sky was completely clear (this was very rare in Pittsbrugh) and I was very happy (also rare at that time). 30 minutes later I finally get to work. (WoW I can't believe I spent 1 hour on public transportation to go 5 miles...) Anyways when I got to work there were a bunch of nurses (work in a hospital) crowded around a TV in a patient room. On the screen I saw the smoke as a plane hit the first tower and that wiped the smile off of my face. :omg: I hope no one that day thought I was actually happy about the attack. I had no idea.
John
modified on Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:48 PM
This reminds me of the day London was bombed. It was the day after we found out that London was going to be hosting the Olympics, and I was on holiday. I was on the beach with the kids when somebody asked me what I thought about London. I must have come across as the most callous bastard on the planet because I said that it didn't bother me because we wouldn't be affected in the North East. The guy looked really shocked. Fortunately I said the word Olympics because the light dawned and he told me about the bombings. I hastily amended my position.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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This reminds me of the day London was bombed. It was the day after we found out that London was going to be hosting the Olympics, and I was on holiday. I was on the beach with the kids when somebody asked me what I thought about London. I must have come across as the most callous bastard on the planet because I said that it didn't bother me because we wouldn't be affected in the North East. The guy looked really shocked. Fortunately I said the word Olympics because the light dawned and he told me about the bombings. I hastily amended my position.
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Thanks for sharing that.
John
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
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I was unusually in London for a job interview. The panic that came across London was scarey enough - I can't imagine what it was like anywhere in the US. I have many old friends (and a girlfriend) from my youth that I lost touch with years ago from NY. Everytime I see, hear, or think about 9/11 I think of them and pray that they're OK. Ditto Pete's last paragraph :rose:
Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
I remember that I too was in the office, in Budapest. Someone had a CNN ticker running and just shouted F... We were about to remind him of the office rules, when he just started reading the ticker ...plane crashed into twin towers in new york... and on it went. Mrs Wife called me, maybe twenty minutes after the news broke, saying that she'd heard from good sources that it was flown in, not crashed. A little later, I was walking across Margit bridge to meet her when she called about the second plane. We rushed home and didn't eat that night. We just sat watching BBC World, wondering how the hell it could have happened.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
I was on my way into the office when the first plane hit. The music on the radio was interrupted with an announcement. As soon as I walked in, I turned on the TV in my office and everyone piled in (I had a satellite feed). We watched as the second plane hit. Then my brother called me from Washington DC and said a plane had crashed into the Pentagon. I turned to my business partner and said we're at war. A few moments later, trade center two collapsed. Someone asked what happened and I barely was able to say "it collapsed". Then trade center one went down. Not another word was said. Our phones didn't ring. No emails were sent or received. The usual sounds of planes gave way to complete silence. That gave way to the thunderous sound of low flying fighter jets. We all left and you could see a smoke haze in the distant sky. I drove home, sat on the couch and cried. A week later I was on Madison Ave for a meeting. There was a stench in the air unlike normal New York City smells. Everyone was quiet, even in a crowded coffee shop. No one smiled. No one talked. I'll never forget any of it nor the people that we later came to know of their heroic actions.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
We honour you.
:rose: I was at Tech-Ed, so I saw it before hearing about it. Everyone was standing fixed before TV's in the coffee shops etc. just after the planes had hit.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
There's one guy I'd like to mention. Steve Buscemi. He turned up at his old fire station and volunteered to work, working 12 hour days to help his old crew. All the while he refused to do interviews, or to do the usual "star" grandstanding. My respect for him went through the roof.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I thought it was a sick joke
Same here. At first when I heard of it, I thought it was just some moron who couldn't fly his little private plane. Once I saw that it was commercial planes and was not some accident, then reality set in.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more.
Ditto that. Watched several shows on Discovery Channel in the past week about 9/11. It seems like it just happened yesterday. My parents feel the same way about the JFK assassination, they feel like it was just yesterday when it happened.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I thought it was a sick joke
Same here. At first when I heard of it, I thought it was just some moron who couldn't fly his little private plane. Once I saw that it was commercial planes and was not some accident, then reality set in.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more.
Ditto that. Watched several shows on Discovery Channel in the past week about 9/11. It seems like it just happened yesterday. My parents feel the same way about the JFK assassination, they feel like it was just yesterday when it happened.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Yup. It's definitely going to exist in our generations mind as a "do you remember where you were when..." moment. A little bit of the goodness left the world that day.
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Yup. It's definitely going to exist in our generations mind as a "do you remember where you were when..." moment. A little bit of the goodness left the world that day.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It's definitely going to exist in our generations mind as a "do you remember where you were when..." moment
Yes. Like the many of times I would hear from my dear late grandmother about her sister's 16th birthday being the day Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
A little bit of the goodness left the world that day.
Yeah, that sucks, but maybe we can encourage our children to bring some of that back.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It's definitely going to exist in our generations mind as a "do you remember where you were when..." moment
Yes. Like the many of times I would hear from my dear late grandmother about her sister's 16th birthday being the day Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
A little bit of the goodness left the world that day.
Yeah, that sucks, but maybe we can encourage our children to bring some of that back.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Paul Conrad wrote:
maybe we can encourage our children to bring some of that back.
That's what I'm trying to achieve.
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Paul Conrad wrote:
maybe we can encourage our children to bring some of that back.
That's what I'm trying to achieve.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Same thing here. There is the saying along the lines that the children are the future, and it goes well. We all want goodness in the future, it starts with our kids :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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So, seven years ago I was in the office when somebody told me there'd been an attack on America. At first, I thought it was a sick joke, but Tony seemed to be serious. So I tried the BBC news website to see what was going on and couldn't get to it. The website was swamped and I couldn't get through to it - so I rang Jennifer and asked her to put the news on to tell me about the attack. I remember the shock when she told me about the attack on the twin towers. Then, when she told me that a flight had "gone missing", I couldn't believe it. Information was slow coming through that day - slow and scary when the details came through. The images of the planes going into the towers is one that I will remember forever more. But out of that day, tales of great heroism came through, and I'd like to take this opportunity to honour the heroes of that day as well as the victims. The passengers on Flight 93. The police, fire fighters, volunteers, civilians who braved the devastation. The people of New York and all who came to help. We honour you.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
In the days following the skies were silent. Understand that I have always lived near arguably the busiest airport in the world, the sound of planes taking off and landing are part of the background. My wife and I found it real hard to sleep with all the quiet. We just lay there thinking of how the world would never be the same again. How sad it is for the kids not knowing a world where this type of tragedy couldn't happen. :((
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This reminds me of the day London was bombed. It was the day after we found out that London was going to be hosting the Olympics, and I was on holiday. I was on the beach with the kids when somebody asked me what I thought about London. I must have come across as the most callous bastard on the planet because I said that it didn't bother me because we wouldn't be affected in the North East. The guy looked really shocked. Fortunately I said the word Olympics because the light dawned and he told me about the bombings. I hastily amended my position.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
This reminds me of the day London was bombed.
Yes, I remember that. It really chapped me that the nut cases out there were still trying to cause harm to so many innocent people. I have a hunch this thread could really expand a bit in the SB :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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In the days following the skies were silent. Understand that I have always lived near arguably the busiest airport in the world, the sound of planes taking off and landing are part of the background. My wife and I found it real hard to sleep with all the quiet. We just lay there thinking of how the world would never be the same again. How sad it is for the kids not knowing a world where this type of tragedy couldn't happen. :((
jeron1 wrote:
In the days following the skies were silent.
I remember that. The part of the mountains I live in, the flight path into LAX or Ontario ( Ontario, Calif ) is about 3-10 miles west of here, and see a lot of aircraft everyday. It was just really freaky not seeing anything for some time.
jeron1 wrote:
thinking of how the world would never be the same again
I agree. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. I still do look over my shoulder, being on the extra alert side. Not to the point of paranoia or anything like that.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
This reminds me of the day London was bombed.
Yes, I remember that. It really chapped me that the nut cases out there were still trying to cause harm to so many innocent people. I have a hunch this thread could really expand a bit in the SB :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
I've tried to keep this Lounge safe.
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I've tried to keep this Lounge safe.
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Yeah, this is still Lounge safe :) I was just thinking of how many wild tangents would go flying off if the thread were in the SB :laugh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham