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Weather Man

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Spooky...Ladder 118 crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on its way to the towers, none of the 6 members returned.

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I remember it vividly. The company I worked for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield had our corporate headquarters located there. We lost 8 employees that day.

Let us also not forget the 4k plus first responders that survived who contracted cancer from the debris and the several thousand civilians as well.

Some groups believe more perished after the fact due to Cancer and other illnesses than were actually killed in the attack. I never see this brought up for some reason
 

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I believe that I was in the sixth or seventh grade at the time. I do remember being in junior high though at the army base in Wurzburg, Germany at the time. I remember the overall panic amongst the teachers and that we were not allowed to get on the buses home and my parents were not able to pick me up either until much later that evening because the gates were all sealed on the base.

I can somewhat remember security being really relaxed on CONUS army bases prior to 9/11. I swear Fort Polk didn't even have a gate, anyone could drive through it at anytime. My memory could be bad though, I was very young in the late 90s when my father was stationed there.
 

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Remember watching the news and seeing the second one get hit. I was in 4th grade, had no idea how to react. Felt right last night tho at softball to honor all of those who are not with us....
 

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I will never forget that day. I was 19 years old and grew up and spent my whole life on Long Island. At the very end of August 2001 I went to the University of Hawaii to go to school. Less than 2 weeks later I was woken up by a girl at 3am, banging on my door saying "they are blowing up New York!". I ran down stairs just before the second plane hit. I will always remember how surreal it felt being in Hawaii, in the middle of the night, watching "Live Tv" of NYC of a beautiful morning... made it feel even less real. They kept showing the first tower fall over and over, that when the second fell I didnt realize it until I asked someone why the camera was focused way up in the sky.
 

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I was sitting in our conference room with my co-workers, one of whom had flown in from NYC and had friends working in one of the towers. Watched the second plane hit, and then both towers collapse.
 
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The only way the government was responsible was being arrogant in thinking that this couldn't happen to America. They did disregard plenty of warnings from others, but let's be honest, I don't think anyone other than CIA operatives and some FBI agents who worked Al Queda and Bin Laden really knew the threat. And they were viewed as being overly concerned.

I remember playing Flight Simulator as a kid and flying into the buildings, but I never thought that I would hear others did the same thing to legitimately practice flying a real plane into a building.

Who would've have thought such a thing would happen in our lifetime. Makes you wonder what their next big scheme is......

Scary.....


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