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maybe you can share with us what you were doing on that day

As the General secretary of an administration, I was at a board meeting (in Switzerland, it was right after 3 PM) taking notes when an executive's wife called and told her husband that the Empire State Building had been attacked. I went to my PC and checked the news online : A commercial plane had crashed into the World Trade Center! ...and at once I thought, Oh this sounds t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e!...

In the very same evening, I had another meeting with all the elected politicians, a meeting that normally lasted until around 10-11 PM. That night, these incompetent people didn't understand that the world was changing and they discussed stupid administration matters until 2 AM (!), when I only wanted one thing, to go home and watch TV, to keep me informed of the situation. When I finally was at home, I did not go to bed at all and watched the news on TV until the next morning...

At that moment, I was team-leader of the IT Help-desk at Alcatel. We didn't hear the news yet, but suddenly there was a number of calls because the internet in the company went down. So we discovered an overload on the servers because all people tried to watch CNN.

I was pulling into the employee parking garage at American Airline Headquarters across from Dallas/Ft Worth Airport and a disc jockey on a local radio station made the comment that a 'plane' had just struck a skyscraper in NYC.  My first thought was a private airplane "lost in clouds". About a minute later he came back and said it was the World Trade Center...and he stopped mid-sentence and said they just heard it was a commercial jet. 

I walked into the AA HDQ building lobby and there were dozens of employees in shock just standing looking at a TV -- that is when I found out it was AA #11.  By the time I got to my office I heard a scream and someone said another passenger jet had hit the other tower.  In the following hour the other two aircraft were crashed.  The building that day was eerily silent...if anyone spoke it was in whispers.  By noon, non-operational office staff began drifting out and going home.  

My father was a retired Dallas firefighter, and a cousin and multiple high school friends were active firefighters and EMTs, so the dedication of the FDNY and NYPD always tugs at my heart -- not only those who died in service, but also the ones on scene doing what they had to do to serve.  

There have been many "pivotal" days in history, where everything in the world changed....this day 20 year ago was definitely one of them.

It was evening here and I was watching some TV channel which broke the news. I immediately switched over to CNN and watched live the second crash. Kept on watching CNN till almost midnight. 

I had just got home from work, put TV on while I had a cuppa.  Every channel had coverage.  I rang my daughters who had gone overseas with their husbands' deployment, we sat watching and talking on the phone until there was nothing more that could be said.  My husband came home a couple of hours later, the news had reached his college by then. 

I was working at home, not knowing what was going on, when a friend who didn't have access to a tv called me from his work, asking me to describe the situation. The first thing I saw was the upper storeys of a skyscraper collapsing into grey clouds of dust. I literally couldn't believe my eyes and told him so. Only a little later I saw that it wasn't just the upper storeys... I spent the rest of the day, deep into the night, watching CNN, BBC and other channels.

i maybe was sleeping at the night(here).
and i remember after 3days, i d watched a brief news by chance.

now i started to watch them seriously.

I was still a kid, 11 years old.
I was staying at my grandma house, and I was playing something with toys, then I heard my grandma freaking out at the TV, went there and tried to understand what was going on.
Then my mother came and we talked all day about this and watched news.

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Found it in SV last week, but was looking for the bluedot to no avail

I got home from work early that day, just after having lunch at work. I made myself a cup of coffee while listening to the radio in the kitchen, like I always did in those days when I was at home. Then I realised they were talking about the world trade center in NYC and an airplane crash. I went to the living room and turned the TV on. I was in shock. I was even more in shock when I saw the second airplane crash in the second building, coming from behind the tower. I called my dad. We used to be on the phone a lot in 2001, my mother had died in May that year, unexpectedly, age 68, and I must say to me personally 9/11 was the second shock of 2001.

I went up one of the twin towers in the summer of 1980, to the restaurant, but they didn't let us out of the elevator, official reason: the restaurant was closing. I went again in 1987, at night, bought a ticket to visit the top this time, I still have the ticket. I remember standing outside on the top and looking at the huge antenna on the other building, and I also remember thinking it felt like being in an airplane because it was so high, looking down at the traffic and the city at night. So when 9/11 took place of course I recalled what it was like to be in that building. I also remember thinking: world war 3 has begun!

(Edit: for some reason, I cannot type the word k i t c h e n right, when I go to edit, I type the word and it never appears!!! What is going on here?)

Hi, JL,

It isn't normally our policy to edit users' posts (courtesy and copyright etc) but I made an exception and had a look at your post.  I did a simple edit and changed your (deliberate) spelling of kittchen to and then when I saved the post, the word had completely vanished.  I reinstated as kitcchen, saved and it came back, as in your OP.  I re-edited again to katchen, saved it an the system was happy with that spelling.  I re-edited again back to , but on saving it, the word again disappeared.

Edit - as you can see, it's doing exactly the same with my post!  Curious - it's completely omitted the word   k i t c h e n.  I've had a look at the BB code and the word has been omitted there as well.  I made a post in the Test and Experimental Section, same problem.   


This looks like one for Tek, our Technical Wizard!

Further edit.  OK, found the problem.  Steve TheLedge had placed it on the list of banned words, because apparently he'd had spamming problems.  Most banned words are automatically replaced by **** asterisks, but he'd left the replacement field blank in this case, so the system just omitted it altogether.  I've altered the list of banned words to reinstate it.

Say it loud and say it proud  - kitchen kitchen kitchen!

Cheers,

Frank

Wow, thanks for explaining and working this one out, frankmcvey (Angel) ! I thought I was in a Twilight Zone episode where such simple everyday words were banned! I was really confused. Kitchen kitchen kitchen! This should be F&G's freedom slogan! 

Walter_V_R, Utapao, CuriousJM, lockhopper, bridgeplayer, pͤlaͣyͬeͭrͪ, ndrqu, jesusmx, johnluke, well done!

+ thanks for sharing your memories!

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Pictures of the 9/11 deceased NY firemen, Fire Department New York Ten House, Liberty st / Greenwich st, NYC, USA, 40.7098204 -74.0124075,

blue dot: FDNY Ten House - Carlos R. Chavez - Street View - Aug 2017


Civilians bolt in the opposite direction as firefighters rush towards the Twin Towers of the New York City's World Trade Center after a plane hit the building on September 11, 2001. Jose Jimenez / Primera Hora / Getty Images


The rubble of the World Trade Center smolders on September 12, 2001 as firefighters continue recovery efforts. Porter Gifford / Corbis / Getty Images

please read How 9/11 Became the Deadliest Day in History for U.S. Firefighters (history.com)

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