7 years on.
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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.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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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.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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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.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I've tried to keep this Lounge safe.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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
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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
You can start a thread there, you know!
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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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.
Hmmm, it would appear our mysterious 1 voter(s) can't even let the memories of 9/11 go by. I remember much of that day, whereas I can remember next to bugger all of those around it save the late afternoon of the day before. I was an unemployed bum, living off my wife having been let go from the Internet consultancy I worked for (which is now unsurprisingly defunct). On the 10th I decided to take a break from the job search and go get a coffee, magazine and read. It was a beautiful day here. I remember basking in the rays of the sun coming into the book store cafe. I still have that mag, Time magazine from Sept. 10th, my last artifact from when the world was still normal. Stayed up most of the night playing computer games, but awoke early. Plonked myself on the couch after my wife left and was flipping through the cable channels. I remember clearly that SciFi had BSG (the old series) on, flicked to the news channels .. nada. Flicked around some more, got breakfast and then tuned to BBC America for a rude awakening. I didn't move from the couch for the rest of the day. Job hunting was put aside for a few days too. A year later I actually started learning to fly. For whatever reason that seemed to push me to do what I had dreamt about since I was 10. Addendum: This is dredging up more memories. I only knew one guy in NY and a friend of mine and his tried to get in contact. The next day we got an email back. He had a front row seat from the roof of his office tower, image of the towers falling forever etched on his mind.
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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You can start a thread there, you know!
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
Yep. I always could, but I have to get ready to go to work right now ;P
"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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Yep. I always could, but I have to get ready to go to work right now ;P
"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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:laugh: I'm in southern California, and I don't have to be to work until 6:00pm :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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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 at work happily working on a C++/MFC project (to control a $500k machine tool) when the first reports came in. Everything (and I mean every single thing) stopped at the office for the remainder of the day. We have dozens of people traveling world-wide at any given time so we we're getting updates from around the globe. Some pretty amazing stories... :rose: to the fallen and their families.
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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.
Like always I'm late. I was busy yesterday and crawling through threads I saw this today. :sigh: I'm not in U.S. but I try to understand the tragedy, the fear, the sadness and inhumanity of evils who decided on creating that unfortunate disaster. When I was a child Iraq attacked Iran, I remember hearing an alarm from radio every night and sometimes multiple times a night. We had to turn off all the lights and leave home. Then there was sound of jet plane and finally bombs. Fear everywhere. Standing in silence in a dark corner wondering if next bomb is going to fall near us... I think I understand the fear, sadness and anger of those unbelievable moments. I too respect the heroism of those who showed another face of human being. I want to say, from the other side of the earth, that some people feeling the same, all over the world, are together against such unacceptable acts regardless of their nationality or religion. :rose:
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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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.
At work, someone mentioned an "accident" so we checked out the live broadcast on several TV's around the offices...spent my morning watching things as they unfolded, especially the second plane and then both towers collasping. Inside I cried, still do. I won't go into what my military side thinks. RIP...
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I was at work happily working on a C++/MFC project (to control a $500k machine tool) when the first reports came in. Everything (and I mean every single thing) stopped at the office for the remainder of the day. We have dozens of people traveling world-wide at any given time so we we're getting updates from around the globe. Some pretty amazing stories... :rose: to the fallen and their families.
Mike Mullikin wrote:
We have dozens of people traveling world-wide at any given time
Gyerk! How long were they stranded afterwards? I know more than a few people who've drawn the line at any travel across large bodies of water for that reason. Driving a rental from NYC to LA would Massively Suck(tm), but if you're stuck on the wrong side of an ocean you're basically screwed for the duration.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
We have dozens of people traveling world-wide at any given time
Gyerk! How long were they stranded afterwards? I know more than a few people who've drawn the line at any travel across large bodies of water for that reason. Driving a rental from NYC to LA would Massively Suck(tm), but if you're stuck on the wrong side of an ocean you're basically screwed for the duration.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
dan neely wrote:
How long were they stranded afterwards?
The CEO was held over in the UK for an extra week but made "lemonade" by visiting a few customers and securing a couple new orders. A service tech in Germany would have missed the birth of a child in South Carolina if not for his contacts in the military (he is retired USAF) who got him on a transport back to the states well before a commercial flight was available.