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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 5:49:50 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

1) In the waiting room of a doctor's office. The strange part of the memory is that all the people there were very calm. Nobody seemed to take any notice of what we had just heard on the radio or tv (I think someone must have been listening to a radio.) I felt as though I was imposing but I asked the receptionist if I could use the phone and first called home and then called two friends and told them what had happened. No one else asked to use the phone or showed any emotion at all. 2) I had been asleep, and my husband ran into the bedroom very upset and said, "The World Trade Center has been hit," and turned on the TV. We watched as the second tower was hit, and then as they fell, and the rest of the day.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 5:55:11 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

If I'm an old fart so are you. Freshman in HS when you were a senior. #1. I had just entered Latin class when the principal put the radio over the speakers. Our teacher was a queer and bawled like a baby. They let us out 15 minutes later. Snowing like a big dog and no rides so I walked home. Got my gun and shot two pheasants when a pair of roosters flushed as I stepped into the fence row. #2. I was on SI when they reported the hit. Turned on CNN and went back and forth between the TV and the net. Watched the second plane. Fire and people jumping. Watched how the Twin Towers were built later and how they came down later. The thud of people hitting the ground. If Bush want's to nuke the whole Mideast I'd still vote for him after seeing that.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 5:55:12 PM
From: country bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

I was between classes in high school for JFK and was on the construction site for 911. By lunchtime, my crews were the only ones still on the job.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 6:12:17 PM
From: PatiBob	Respond to of 298

1. I was in school in New Orleans. Every one was in shock. We thought the world was gonna stop because we didn't know the US could run without a President. It was elementry school. 2. I was getting the kids ready for school. I turned on the news and saw the second plane hit. No one at that time knew what airline the planes were with. My husband was suppose to be on his was to Boston and I didn't hear from him until later. There was a delay and then all flights were cancelled.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 8:47:41 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

1) Kennedy: Walking down the high school corridors I found many of my classmates crying. When I learned of it, I didn't cry, but I wondered why they did. When I got home I got up to speed, and stayed glued to the tube for a very long time--days! I was watching in the wee hours of the morning when his brother Robert went down--again, glued to the tube. By this time it wasn't a matter of crying or thinking about crying--I was damn mad! 2) Dutifully, I was both at my computer and glued to CNBC, trying to find a stock position, when the first plane hit. I observed the second one in real time. No fun at all! Eventually, several friends came over and it was anything but PartyTime--we were glued to the tube! 3) I saw Waco happen in real time also--glued to the tube! 4) When the three major war conflicts happened--Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq--there I was, you guessed it: glued to the tube! 5) And, sure enough, there I was glued to the tube watching a the world series when the earthquake struck. Sadly, I'm still glued to the tube. What's gonna be the next horror I witness? I only wish I was in charge of the world--so that these things couldn't happen. Oh, well! Woe!!! PS: Oh, I forgot--this is a smoking thread. Put me down for a daily pack of Chesterfield Kings, supported by a Guinness, or few.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/1/2004 11:34:39 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

For JFK. I was in the USAF at Dover, DE and had just been sent home to come back and sub for our midnite shift guy who had come down sick. When I got home I turned on the TV about a half-hour before the assassination and watched it unfold live. CBS was carrying the motorcade live. Not positive if this was a part of a possible major attack on the US, we loaded up all the planes we had (19 F-106's, 95th FIS) with conventional and nuke air to air missiles and waited for whatever. For 911, I was already retired and turned on my TV less than 5 minutes after the first tower was hit. Watched it all day. Horrible.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/2/2004 1:24:48 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 298

I was at home cleaning the house and listening to my do wop on my brother's new stereo. He came home and caught me. He didn't say anything about the President just yelled at me for playing my old records on his new stereo. I asked him why he was home so early, and then he said, "It's no use working today, no one is in their office, the President has been shot" I was shocked, and asked him if he meant the Pres. of his company, and he said, no the USA! It was incomprehensible, no Presidents of the US were shot except Lincoln. None that I knew of at the time.. 9/11..I was in the kitchen when the phone rang, my daughter called and asked if I had tv on. She then told me she had heard a "small" plane had hit one of the WTCs...I turned on tv in time to see the second plane hit...I was giving her a blow by blow, because she was at work with no tv...about five minutes later my son called and asked if I had tv on, and I told him I was watching it. Just about that time the first building imploded...I told him this, and he didn't believe me...He thought I didn't understand. TV can be a blessing and a curse...horrible to witness people jumping to their deaths, and seeing the people who escaped... That's why Bush is right...there is terrible evil in our land, and they do want to kill Americans. We HAVE to fight them...or be killed ourselves.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/2/2004 11:37:54 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

I was working graveyard on 9-11. I didn't get up until about 4:00 p.m. I had turned on the TV to watch/tape a movie and flipped over to MSNBC to see what the market had done. That's when I learned what had happened. I stayed glued to the TV until it was time to go to work that night. Of course, at work, the place was all abuzz. That was all any of us could talk about. 9-11 had been my Friday, so to speak, so I was off the next few days and stayed tuned in until I went back to work. At work, there were TVs all over the place, our office being one of the few exceptions, and most of us took some very, very long breaks. One co-worker and I watched President Bush' speech in its entirety. None of the brass seemed to mind, however. They were there too. - Holly

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (86)	3/4/2004 10:17:54 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 298

hey, Laz. (1) Kennedy: I was home sick from school and my mom had taken me over to my aunt's house where I was watching TV. (I was in 2nd or 3rd grade) We saw the news there and then drove to school to pick up my younger sister. (I'll never forget seeing the line of little children for the phone booth to call their parents to be picked up.) (2) 9/11: I was lying in bed, watching CNBC when the first plane struck and watched the rest unfold. They should show that footage every day between now and November...too easy to forget when you listen to Kerry and his law enforcement action notions.