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So It's September 11th Today....
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6th grade science class. Didn't think anything of it at first until I went home and saw the news. I had my dad send me to school that day so he was a bit later than he usually was getting to work (he goes to Jersey from WTC.)
I'm pretty lucky that he made it back with just a scratch on his elbow. If he had died that day I'd never forgive myself.
I'm pretty lucky that he made it back with just a scratch on his elbow. If he had died that day I'd never forgive myself.
GillianSeed79
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Was in college. Pulled an all nighter finishing a paper. Was printing it out in computer lab when first plane hit. Went to class. After class, stopped by coffee shop. People crying. Someone said it was terrorists. First I thought whatever. Terrorists only exist in cheesey hollywood action movies. Pentagon was hit. Started freaking out. Sister and her husband worked in Crystal City across the street. Friend changed screen saver to drop the bomb. Cried.
BloodySinner
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Kagari said:
Why? So they can get knocked down again by some idiot?
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
BloodySinner said:
No, as a sign of American superiority.
Why would you do that?
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Huh. Unlike a lot of people who feel like it was just yesterday, I don't feel that way.
Either way, I remember that day fairly vividly. We (my 7th grade class) were out at P.E. class at a park on 34th street. Walking back to the school, some lady said something about the WTC being bombed. Throughout the day, we were bereft of information. Everyone went home late, and if the parents couldn't show up to take their kids home, some teachers escorted the kids to their parents.
I'm not really emotionally effected by the whole thing, though. I think it was because we at school didn't really get any information. However, I was effected in another way. I used to get scared when planes flew by outside my window. I still have a little bit of that feeling nowadays, unfortunately, but eh.
Looking back, I'm kinda happy about not getting a lot of info during 9/11. If I did, I'd probably worry because my school was near the United Nations and the Empire State Building.
Either way, I remember that day fairly vividly. We (my 7th grade class) were out at P.E. class at a park on 34th street. Walking back to the school, some lady said something about the WTC being bombed. Throughout the day, we were bereft of information. Everyone went home late, and if the parents couldn't show up to take their kids home, some teachers escorted the kids to their parents.
I'm not really emotionally effected by the whole thing, though. I think it was because we at school didn't really get any information. However, I was effected in another way. I used to get scared when planes flew by outside my window. I still have a little bit of that feeling nowadays, unfortunately, but eh.
Looking back, I'm kinda happy about not getting a lot of info during 9/11. If I did, I'd probably worry because my school was near the United Nations and the Empire State Building.
Buckethead
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"Great war will be a spiritual war, the great depression our lives", etc. etc.
Such a terrible moment.
I was in 11th grade, walking through the hallways between classes. The bell had rung by the hallways were empty. I had never seen that before... we had a massive school with thousands upon thousands of kids, and so it was bizarre that nobody was out and about. So I'm going to math class, and as I look into other classrooms I see a lot of people hovering around the tv sets in each room.
I arrive at my math class, and we got the "it's a small plane hit the building" etc murmurs, and I'm hypnotized by the television. And then... boom. The second plane. I just remember jumping out of my seat and going "holy shit" really loud and then staring with my jaw open.
After that, not much school work got done for the rest of the day in any class. After the Pentagon was hit too, nobody really knew how big this was gonna be, and every unaccounted for plane might have been another hijacking. It was surreal.
A day before this happened, my history teacher had an exercise with the class where he asked everyone "If you had to name the most important historical event in your lifetimes, what would it be?" And nobody could agree - some said Columbine, some said the death of princess diana, some said the first Iraq War. But it was no consensus.
After 9/11, I got to talking to my history teacher and we were just watching the tv, and I look at him and just say with regret "I guess... we know what the most important event is now. There won't be any more disagreements on that."
And he nodded back mournfully, because he knew. I was right.
I was in 11th grade, walking through the hallways between classes. The bell had rung by the hallways were empty. I had never seen that before... we had a massive school with thousands upon thousands of kids, and so it was bizarre that nobody was out and about. So I'm going to math class, and as I look into other classrooms I see a lot of people hovering around the tv sets in each room.
I arrive at my math class, and we got the "it's a small plane hit the building" etc murmurs, and I'm hypnotized by the television. And then... boom. The second plane. I just remember jumping out of my seat and going "holy shit" really loud and then staring with my jaw open.
After that, not much school work got done for the rest of the day in any class. After the Pentagon was hit too, nobody really knew how big this was gonna be, and every unaccounted for plane might have been another hijacking. It was surreal.
A day before this happened, my history teacher had an exercise with the class where he asked everyone "If you had to name the most important historical event in your lifetimes, what would it be?" And nobody could agree - some said Columbine, some said the death of princess diana, some said the first Iraq War. But it was no consensus.
After 9/11, I got to talking to my history teacher and we were just watching the tv, and I look at him and just say with regret "I guess... we know what the most important event is now. There won't be any more disagreements on that."
And he nodded back mournfully, because he knew. I was right.
Thunder Monkey
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I live in Kansas.
It was my senior year during Government class. We'd gotten about halfway through the class, and the principal came on the intercom. "We're not sure what's going on, but it looks like the WTC has been bombed." Each room was set up with cable, so our teacher turned on the TV and we saw the smoke of the first impact. The rest of the day was every senior skipping their classes to keep up on the event.
I spent the rest of the day in the Library watching the crazy unfold.
It was my senior year during Government class. We'd gotten about halfway through the class, and the principal came on the intercom. "We're not sure what's going on, but it looks like the WTC has been bombed." Each room was set up with cable, so our teacher turned on the TV and we saw the smoke of the first impact. The rest of the day was every senior skipping their classes to keep up on the event.
I spent the rest of the day in the Library watching the crazy unfold.
jamesinclair
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Rindain said:
When building a skyscraper, 50% of the construction is actually underground (foundation). Add to that the difficulty of the site + the 3-4 years of cleanup and arguments over what should be built and it hasnt taken that much longer than most modern skyscrapers.
The exterior will be almost done by next year
friskykillface
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think i was in either 7th or 8th grade
kinda remember that day, for some reason they told us at noon
I remember I was there two or three weeks before it happened.
kinda remember that day, for some reason they told us at noon
I remember I was there two or three weeks before it happened.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
edit: gosh dang it never mind.
bean breath
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11th grade. I live in California so I found out before school started. I hadn't watched tv before school since like elementary but for some odd reason I turned it on this morning and saw both towers smoking, thought it was just a fire. Then like 3 minutes later the first one crumbled to the ground. I remember being completely dumbfounded, standing in the middle of my living room
"...wtf? Is this a movie!? WTF!!!???"
School that day was basically watching it on tv every period.
Still haven't been on a plane since the summer of 2000.
"...wtf? Is this a movie!? WTF!!!???"
School that day was basically watching it on tv every period.
Still haven't been on a plane since the summer of 2000.
I was a senior in high school, in a really boring English class with a substitute teacher who basically let everyone sleep. :lol
The school at the time was under construction, so not all of the classrooms had cable, including the one I was in. :|
It was just surreal. The room instantly went from half of the class asleep to everyone freaking out. Teachers and faculty were in denial, and because no one in the wing of the school I was in had cable, there was a lot of misinformation. People said the crash at the Pentagon was on the lawn, for example. People grew frustrated and impatient not being able to get reliable information. It was pretty nuts.
Everything just stopped. In every class I went to we just sat there and talked about the event. Nothing else mattered. People were allowed to go home early.
It does seem like a long time ago.
The aftermath of 9/11 to this day is pretty crappy.
The school at the time was under construction, so not all of the classrooms had cable, including the one I was in. :|
It was just surreal. The room instantly went from half of the class asleep to everyone freaking out. Teachers and faculty were in denial, and because no one in the wing of the school I was in had cable, there was a lot of misinformation. People said the crash at the Pentagon was on the lawn, for example. People grew frustrated and impatient not being able to get reliable information. It was pretty nuts.
Everything just stopped. In every class I went to we just sat there and talked about the event. Nothing else mattered. People were allowed to go home early.
It does seem like a long time ago.
The aftermath of 9/11 to this day is pretty crappy.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
I was watching Ghostbusters 2 the other day before work and there was a shot of the whole city at one point (when the guys hit the power line as they're pulling Ray up from the hole the dug in the street) and when I saw the WTC towers I just got a really sad feeling.
Those were really some beautiful buildings, and a classic image whenever I think of NYC. I was only in 6th grade when the attacks happened, and I was too young to understand the overall impact and everything, but now as an adult it really is quite something to think about. I can't believe it's been 9 years already.
I went to NYC for the first time in my life as late teenager. Can't remember the exact year off hand, but I went with my family and we toured the city. Easily the most fantastic city I've ever been to, and I went to ground zero to see it. At the time I went (must have been 2005 or 2006), it was mostly cleaned up, but still there was plenty of construction and clean-up crews working on the area. I just couldn't possibly grasp the idea of being a person walking down the street and looking up at these buildings as a plane flies into them.
Those were really some beautiful buildings, and a classic image whenever I think of NYC. I was only in 6th grade when the attacks happened, and I was too young to understand the overall impact and everything, but now as an adult it really is quite something to think about. I can't believe it's been 9 years already.
I went to NYC for the first time in my life as late teenager. Can't remember the exact year off hand, but I went with my family and we toured the city. Easily the most fantastic city I've ever been to, and I went to ground zero to see it. At the time I went (must have been 2005 or 2006), it was mostly cleaned up, but still there was plenty of construction and clean-up crews working on the area. I just couldn't possibly grasp the idea of being a person walking down the street and looking up at these buildings as a plane flies into them.
noclevername620
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(stolen from my own facebook)
i was asleep at home, and skipping school, as I had long since given up on the concept of my "2nd" senior year of high school. My brother and a friend of ours came to my parents' house to wake me up and tell me to turn on the tv. I did so about 5 minutes before the 2nd plane hit. I watched it live, and the collapse that followed. I proceeded to sit, completely transfixed in a THC laden haze, and watch the rest of the day unfold. I was eventually joined by my brother from another mother, my best friend ever, who had decided to skip school and walk to my house that was only a couple of blocks from SC. Also stopping by was a young girl from next door who asked us, with a seriousness that only a certain type of ignorance can produce, "What's the pentagon?" Fueled by an almost nonsensical level of patriotism, we decided to proceed with our initial plan for the day of going to the Mall 45 minutes away. Only we did it with an American flag flying out of the back window of his mom's Chevy Lumina, which had seen better days. We received more than our fair share of honks and thumbs ups until we got to the mall, only to find it was closed. Undaunted, we went downtown to the last good arcade around so I could get in some Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 action on the big screen. When we got there, the attendant told us he was closing in 15 minutes to go watch the President speak live. We drove to the closest Wal Mart in town to watch for ourselves in the sprawling electronics section.
"Good evening.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts." the idiot man child who bore a more than passing resemblance to Alfred E Neumann began.
He continued, spouting gems like "Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans." (Also, finding out what that darn pet goat was up to.) And, "The search is underway for those who were behind these evil acts." (Try the folder on your desk marked "Al Qaida Determined to strike within the U.S.).
We watched until it got old. We went back to the car, where we saw that the American flag we brought with us had been tattered far beyond repair, and decided it would be wrong to display it further.
I looked at my best friend and told him, "That Bush dude is a jackass."
i was asleep at home, and skipping school, as I had long since given up on the concept of my "2nd" senior year of high school. My brother and a friend of ours came to my parents' house to wake me up and tell me to turn on the tv. I did so about 5 minutes before the 2nd plane hit. I watched it live, and the collapse that followed. I proceeded to sit, completely transfixed in a THC laden haze, and watch the rest of the day unfold. I was eventually joined by my brother from another mother, my best friend ever, who had decided to skip school and walk to my house that was only a couple of blocks from SC. Also stopping by was a young girl from next door who asked us, with a seriousness that only a certain type of ignorance can produce, "What's the pentagon?" Fueled by an almost nonsensical level of patriotism, we decided to proceed with our initial plan for the day of going to the Mall 45 minutes away. Only we did it with an American flag flying out of the back window of his mom's Chevy Lumina, which had seen better days. We received more than our fair share of honks and thumbs ups until we got to the mall, only to find it was closed. Undaunted, we went downtown to the last good arcade around so I could get in some Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 action on the big screen. When we got there, the attendant told us he was closing in 15 minutes to go watch the President speak live. We drove to the closest Wal Mart in town to watch for ourselves in the sprawling electronics section.
"Good evening.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts." the idiot man child who bore a more than passing resemblance to Alfred E Neumann began.
He continued, spouting gems like "Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans." (Also, finding out what that darn pet goat was up to.) And, "The search is underway for those who were behind these evil acts." (Try the folder on your desk marked "Al Qaida Determined to strike within the U.S.).
We watched until it got old. We went back to the car, where we saw that the American flag we brought with us had been tattered far beyond repair, and decided it would be wrong to display it further.
I looked at my best friend and told him, "That Bush dude is a jackass."
Funky Functionality
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This post makes me feel SO old.Crumpet Trumpet said:
Wow some of you are really young...
I was in undergrad, my girlfriend at the time called me up in the morning and told me to turn on the TV.
What was crazy is I follow Central Asian news rather closely and I had been telling her just the day before about how Ahmad Shah Massoud had been assassinated.
I was in undergrad, my girlfriend at the time called me up in the morning and told me to turn on the TV.
What was crazy is I follow Central Asian news rather closely and I had been telling her just the day before about how Ahmad Shah Massoud had been assassinated.
Dr. Pangloss
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What always got me was how fast they shut down air traffic that day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1ZtpKqlYw&feature=related Man shit was scary back then and still is.
MarkMclovin
Member
I had the day off work because I was going to go for an interview for another job, but couldn't be arsed.
Around 2pm I think it was, watching the whole thing in realtime, then when the first building collapsed, it was as if we were watching a movie. Just couldn't believe it.
My brother who's in the Royal Navy, went to Ground Zero a good few years ago on July 4th, for a tribute thing. He went to a massive wall that had flowers, photo's and tributes. He put a Welsh flag with a message on there saying 'we will never forget' and he seen another Welsh flag there too.
Said it was a strange and very eerily feeling being there. Very calm and quiet.
Around 2pm I think it was, watching the whole thing in realtime, then when the first building collapsed, it was as if we were watching a movie. Just couldn't believe it.
My brother who's in the Royal Navy, went to Ground Zero a good few years ago on July 4th, for a tribute thing. He went to a massive wall that had flowers, photo's and tributes. He put a Welsh flag with a message on there saying 'we will never forget' and he seen another Welsh flag there too.
Said it was a strange and very eerily feeling being there. Very calm and quiet.
PflargBlarg
Member
Grade 7 I think?
My family always eats breakfast together in the morning with the news on so that's when I saw it (west coast). We did still go to school after that but I'm fairly sure almost the whole day was just watching the news and so forth. Honestly I don't think about it too much. I think the american response to the attack was exactly what they wanted.
My family always eats breakfast together in the morning with the news on so that's when I saw it (west coast). We did still go to school after that but I'm fairly sure almost the whole day was just watching the news and so forth. Honestly I don't think about it too much. I think the american response to the attack was exactly what they wanted.
Escape Goat
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everyone is so young on here...
Eteric Rice
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4AM8t5n0A
For those that want to relive the news on that day. It's kind of weird watching it, knowing that the people in this video don't know whats about to happen.
For those that want to relive the news on that day. It's kind of weird watching it, knowing that the people in this video don't know whats about to happen.
I was in Year 6 at the time, just coming home from school, my mums car was on the drive so I knew something was going on, walked in and everyone was just sitting staring at the TV. I took a seat straight away and just watched, speechless. Whilst I was quite young, I knew some big shit was going down.
ClosingADoor
Member
I was 11 back then. Got home from school and everyone was gathered around the tv watching. Don't remember me paying that much attention at first.
I was in 7th grade at the time, in history class. Our school secretary ran in saying turn to channel 'whatever'. We watched for about 30 minutes.... Class ended. We were sent home. My ride home heard from my mother saying I wasn't supposed to be left alone. We went to my friends house.
That day I played the best Conker's Bad Fur Day game I have ever played... ON EINSTEIN!!
I got 34 kills with 29 headshots (all with the magnum)... It was fucking weird.
Other notable things on 9/11: In 2007 I signed up to my most visited website ever. (not this one)
That day I played the best Conker's Bad Fur Day game I have ever played... ON EINSTEIN!!
I got 34 kills with 29 headshots (all with the magnum)... It was fucking weird.
Other notable things on 9/11: In 2007 I signed up to my most visited website ever. (not this one)
I was in Grade 12. Heard about it on the radio in the car - only the initial information - and I got dropped off at school so early that there was no one around to talk to for about an hour.
Then I spent the day studying for a French oral exam, and arguing with assholes saying that
a) America had it coming.
b) It was Israel (wtf)
c) It was the CIA.
Then I spent the day studying for a French oral exam, and arguing with assholes saying that
a) America had it coming.
b) It was Israel (wtf)
c) It was the CIA.
NekoFever
Member
School had finished and we were sitting on the wall outside, waiting for a ride home. My friend's brother came out of school and told us that a plane had hit the WTC, and we all kind of laughed in a 'What a dumbass' or 'How do you fuck up that bad?' kind of way. Then in the car we heard about the second one on the radio, and watched the rest of it unfold on the news at home. The BBC was plugged into the feed from one of the American news stations so I think we got that instead.
I remember my dad was due to go to a convention in Chicago a few days later on the 14th or 15th. By then the flights were on again and he went, and he said it was the weirdest thing because he was on a 747 with like half a dozen passengers. They could all take rows to themselves to lie down and they spent most of the time talking with the crew because they didn't have much to do with so few passengers.
Then when he got to Chicago he was in a bar with some American friends and told me how random people were buying him drinks for coming over anyway and not letting the terrorists stop his plans.
I almost hope that after the big anniversary next year, it kind of becomes a bit more low key and people start moving on. It has to happen eventually.
I remember my dad was due to go to a convention in Chicago a few days later on the 14th or 15th. By then the flights were on again and he went, and he said it was the weirdest thing because he was on a 747 with like half a dozen passengers. They could all take rows to themselves to lie down and they spent most of the time talking with the crew because they didn't have much to do with so few passengers.
Then when he got to Chicago he was in a bar with some American friends and told me how random people were buying him drinks for coming over anyway and not letting the terrorists stop his plans.
I almost hope that after the big anniversary next year, it kind of becomes a bit more low key and people start moving on. It has to happen eventually.
Dabookerman
Member
I've got one I heard on mock the week.Shanadeus said:
8th grade. Heard bits and pieces from teachers. Mostly about a plane hitting the tower. It sounded like an accident. Didn't really start the realize the gravity of the situation until the end of the day as I was waiting for my ride home. The streets were practically deserted. Not a single plane in the sky. When I got home and watched the footage, I was like everyone else; completely floored. Just a very surreal experience. Come to think of it, the rest of the school year was pretty surreal. Before that, the biggest thing that was going on was the recent death of Aaliyah.
EarsOfASnake
Member
I wonder what our memory of the event would be like had the Internet been more prevalent then like it is now? Mobile uploads to YouTube, twitter, facebook would have provided an inside look at the events that day.
I was in the 9th grade, and it happened before school even started. Here in the west coast we were like, what? And since there were no TV's to see the event, I didn't know much about it until I got home. Quite strange. All I had heard were rumors from kids, and their ingenious plans to "bomb" whoever did it.
College freshman, I had finished my morning class that day when I got a phone call from my brother about the first plane. I looked around until I found a couple of televisions playing the news and watched the rest of the events played out live, answering a few phone calls during that timeframe. I kept watching until it was time for my other class, I actually went and the damn teacher was foolish enough to try a conduct fucking class while everybody else was using the internet to find out more information about the attacks. I stayed a bit until I got a frantic call from my brother about a cousin of mine who might have been in the rubble. (As it turns out she was late for work that day, thank the heavens) I sped out of class, met up with my brother and returned home and watched CNN for the rest of the day.
TOM f'N CRUISE
Member
9 years already........fuck...i was 17. i was asleep and my mom woke my up telling me what happened. i thought she was bull shitting until i walked to the front room to see the tv.
the crazy thing was that i was looking foreword to that day because SLAYERS new album was coming out on 9-11. so after i got the cd later that day i was sitting in my room watching the news with slayers god hates us all album playing...............what a horrible day for that cd to come out
the crazy thing was that i was looking foreword to that day because SLAYERS new album was coming out on 9-11. so after i got the cd later that day i was sitting in my room watching the news with slayers god hates us all album playing...............what a horrible day for that cd to come out
revolverjgw
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I remember waking up that morning really late, and having to brush my teeth and just run out the door. My grandmother told me as I was leaving that someone flew a plane into the World Trade Center, and I walked away snickering, thinking it was just like a dude in a Cessna or something. How stupid do you have to be to fly into a building? Then I got to school and my anthropology class had a TV with CNN on and I grasped just how fucked up the situation was. Totally surreal with the WTC and the Pentagon and everything. For the first little while I was thinking this was actually something bigger than it was, like the start of World War 3 or something, though I had no clue about the how or why or who. The surreality made me think some strange thoughts.
10th grade at the time. First heard about it during 1st period. Then went to my 2nd class which was history and while we didn't watch it on tv then, we were talking about the potential casualty rate. It was horrifying.
After that though, there were tvs in almost all the classrooms and a ton of students went to the break room to watch all the reports and such.
Don't know if anyone here were in the NW suburbs of Chicago at the time, but towards the end of the school day (around 2:30 p.m.) when I was in my computer class, we heard a jet break the sound barrier. Sounded like a goddamn explosion and we all jumped out of our seats. Naturally, there was then widespread paranoia that maybe they had gone ahead and attacked the Sears Tower in Chicago. Was fucking scary.
Oh yeah, and I also remember immediately going home and chatting about it at the gamespot and IGN forums.
After that though, there were tvs in almost all the classrooms and a ton of students went to the break room to watch all the reports and such.
Don't know if anyone here were in the NW suburbs of Chicago at the time, but towards the end of the school day (around 2:30 p.m.) when I was in my computer class, we heard a jet break the sound barrier. Sounded like a goddamn explosion and we all jumped out of our seats. Naturally, there was then widespread paranoia that maybe they had gone ahead and attacked the Sears Tower in Chicago. Was fucking scary.
Oh yeah, and I also remember immediately going home and chatting about it at the gamespot and IGN forums.
I was asleep in my basement after hanging out with friends the night before. We woke up and started watching Dragonball Z episodes. My mom called down and told us a plane hit the WTC. I assumed it was a small one-person plane or something, and went back to watching DBZ for a while.
She then called down and said a second plane hit the other tower, and that it was a passenger jet.
From that moment on I was glued to the TV for days. Saw both buildings collapse live.
She then called down and said a second plane hit the other tower, and that it was a passenger jet.
From that moment on I was glued to the TV for days. Saw both buildings collapse live.
One of my physics teachers told me this story about another of my teachers.
They were watching the first building burning on tv when the second plane hit the other tower. Just after the plane hits the guy says "my brother works there" in a laid back, conversational way, as if you had just mentioned some interesting fact about the tower, rather than just watched a plane crash in to it.
The brother was fine though.
They were watching the first building burning on tv when the second plane hit the other tower. Just after the plane hits the guy says "my brother works there" in a laid back, conversational way, as if you had just mentioned some interesting fact about the tower, rather than just watched a plane crash in to it.
The brother was fine though.
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