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To: TimF who wrote (323776)9/11/2009 5:57:11 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (4) of 793917
 
I woke up that morning to see on TV that a plane had hit the first tower...It was beyond bizarre to think such a thing could happen....it was horrifying to see the floors on fire and people at the windows...then the 2nd plane hit the other tower...THEN I knew we were in trouble... sometime in that time we heard there was a fire of some sort at the Pentagon... the speculation was that it might be a small plane...which seemed to me at that second, just another piece of bad news for the day. By then, the media had info about a third plan headed east to possibly the WH or the Capitol... and by then, we knew about the Pentagon. The original estimates from NYC were that it was possible that 50,000 people could be in those buildings, because that is how many are in and out of these buildings in an average day. It was many days until anyone knew how many could have been killed and/or injured.

It was a day/time of horror for the entire country and the world....the airports all over the country were shut down, airplanes were still flying but no more would take off for many days...It was a beautiful day here in Seattle, and there in NYC, and in DC...the entire time was surreal, and that feeling lasted for months really. Probably many wondered as I did when they saw a plane in the air, if that plane would stay there and land safely.

The stunned and shocked feeling was very much like how it felt on 22 November 1963 when JFK was killed. It must have felt like this when Pearl Harbor was hit.
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