In Remembrance

**Decker** · 09-12-2008, 04:26

And just in case anyone is interested. On the History Channel pacific time. A documentary that just uses video recording from the people that were there is on at 9 pm. It's called, 102 Minutes That Changed The World

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-12-2008, 04:41

I was teaching an org comm class to my comm majors when the Pentagon attack occurred, just after the towers were hit. Ironically enough we were doing a group exercise in conflict management. I felt very small -- very insignificant.

After seven years I still get angry and choked up when I think about it for any length of time.

I think I shall say another ave or two for those lost and their families.

**Devastatin Dave** · 09-12-2008, 05:46

I was stationed at Kunsan Air Base South Korea when the planes hit. It was at night, I was at night chow going into my mid shift. We went to threatcom Delta (which I had never seen before, having been in for 6 years at the time). They scrambled several 16's just incase North Korea decided to get cute. It was a time of complete helplessness and not knowing what was going to happen next. As Seamus sayd, I still get choked up and angry on this day still after 7 years. I absolutely feel terrible for all those souls lost that day and how everything changed that day. Who knew....

**FactionHeir** · 09-12-2008, 12:41

My condolences

And happy birthday to your son Lemur

**Kralizec** · 09-12-2008, 17:11

My condolances to the victims' family and friends.

**Privateerkev** · 09-12-2008, 19:55

I was living next to Ohare Airport at the time and I got woken up to sirens. When the towers got hit, the airport went on high alert. The military, federal government, county, and Chicago PD collapsed on the airport to protect it in case they were next. It was definitely surreal...

A buddy called and I turned on the TV just in time to watch a tower fall.

For days my neighborhood was deathly quiet. You have no idea how weird it is to live next to one of the world's busiest airports but not see or hear a plane in the sky. Airplanes almost become your sleeping aid. First you can't sleep with them and you hate em. Eventually, you get used to it. Finally, the world seems weird when it's quiet.

A buddy and I flew a few months later and I remember us making a pact that we would take on anyone who tried to hijack our plane. Sounds dramatic but things like that were on a lot of people's minds. Weeks later, some disturbed person rushed the cockpit door on some flight. We all remember the windows being blown out of a few Chicago suburb buildings because orbiting fighters went on afterburners. I heard the passengers took the guy down themselves so the fighters didn't have to light a missile off. But they were very close to doing so. Going into downtown Chicago also became a new adventure. People would just look up at the skyscrapers and wonder if a plane was on it's way.

Not quiet sure where I'm going with this. These are just my non-political thoughts on the subject.

As with any tradgedy, it sucks that it happened...

**yesdachi** · 09-12-2008, 21:22

Seeing images of anything related makes me immediately recall the sounds of the jumpers hitting the ground as some reporter struggled to speak of the details. It makes me angry and sad and I don’t like to dwell on it for long or it puts me in a terrible mood. It is a horrible thing to have happened and I feel great sorrow for the families who have lost loved ones. It is a scar that the world will were for many years.