When I got the news, I was in the bathroom at Hayes Instrument Co. The guy that I was with started hollering. I told Troy Deaton the next time I was there that I hope we didn't have a repeat of my first trip.
for what?
You didn't mention an event.
I was at work in the Survey Dept at Fisher and Arnold in Memphis. My boss and friend Pete came out of his office and said we needed to turn on the radio, that his wife had just called him and told him that a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
It was a day to remember.
for what?
On my way to work. Turned on the local morning rush hour show on the radio and they were dead serious--which was very unusual.
Had gathered the crew and headed out to do an ALTA. Stopped to buy some cold drinks. The store owner had a small TV atop a cooler. The second plane hit shortly after we started watching.
Sitting in bed just turned teli on as heard news flash that a plane had hit WTC...So sat up most of night watching drama unfold.
RADU
I'll never forget that day, and I'll never forget this one. Sitting here drinking a glass of North Carolina's finest, toasting that SOB's one way trip to hell.
I was on a job in Carrollton TX near the airport. I remember the eery feeling watching the planes coming in when the ground order came.
> toasting that SOB's one way trip to hell.
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> toasting that SOB's one way trip to hell.
Me too! Cheers!!
Cheers:good: :drink:
On a jobsite in Atlanta, just about to leave and go to Hartsfield to pick up a co-worker who was flying in from....Dulles. He called me and told me he was getting a rental car, that the airport was grounding all flights, that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I turned on the radio to hear the play by play of the second plane, knew then it was no accident.
Within an hour ATF was on the jobsite and took custody of the blasting equipment they were using on the granite, very polite, let everyone go home, but had armed guards posted around the trucks. Also remember the jets flying patrol around CDC and CNN headquarters, very surreal.
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Answering the phone call from a friend (former Army Ranger 2nd Lt.) telling me "we've just been attacked, turn on the news right now!!". I did and was near about in shock the rest of the day. Later he calls me back asking could he bring his entire family and weapons up to my house in the mountains. Why he bothered asking about his weapons I don't know. He knows I had assault weapons of my own and always kept them fully loaded.
In the mean time I had thrown a blank tape in the recorder and ran into town for some more blank tapes. They had already posted cops at the nearby schools by then. That was shortly after the towers had fallen.
> I was on a job in Carrollton TX near the airport. I remember the eery feeling watching the planes coming in when the ground order came.
I was within 10 miles of RH. I was on the way to work in NW Dallas when the 1st one hit. I was at work when the 2nd on hit. I knew at that time there was no "Accident" involved.:-(
I was in the air ....
flying my own plane. I was one of the planes that had to make an unplanned landing.
I was in the air ....
I was in the middle of nowhere...we had the radio in the truck...
Driving home on I-95 the traffic signs read AVOID NYC.
Then we saw I flat bed truck with nite lights being escorted by state police..they where heading to ground zero...
We were doing a topo of the concert grounds at Woodstock, NY. It was hours from the office, and I forgot the data collector. I had to write every angle and distance in a field-book- I guess like many of you did in the "old days." It is the only time I ever forgot the collector.
We heard about the plane crashing into the first tower shortly after it happened, worked all day, and then learned about everything else on the ride home at night.
I was in my office when an engineer came in and told me what had happened.
I have an almost 10 year old Opus X cigar that I've been holding onto for this occasion. The Fuente family made 1000 of them right after the attack. Printed on the cello is "New York, New York City Of Heros." I'm gonna fire it up tonight!
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> I was in my office when an engineer came in and told me what had happened.
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> I have an almost 10 year old Opus X cigar that I've been holding onto for this occasion. The Fuente family made 1000 of them right after the attack. Printed on the cello is "New York, New York City Of Heros." I'm gonna fire it up tonight!
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> :good:
