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   leftwingpatriot said, over 1 year ago

   I was standing on the platform of an elevated train station in Brooklyn, on my way to work, when the man standing next to me said, “a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.” I turned and saw smoke coming from the South Tower. I immediately knew what was happening. I had seen it before in 1993.
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   palin drome said, over 1 year ago

   A touching exchange. Zonker realizes that B.D.’s world is not as secure as Zonker, their baby-sitter, likes to pretend.
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   margueritem said, over 1 year ago

   Thank you, Gary.
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   Rodney said, over 1 year ago

   I was 3000 miles away. We were watching the coverage on TV at work when the first tower fell. I felt like someone had just knocked all the wind out of me.
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   leftwingpatriot said, over 1 year ago

   @Rodney

   I got on the train and went to work, thinking the WTC is downtown and my office is in Midtown. I went to work the next day also. The subway car was packed but nobody made a sound. Three days later I found myself unable to get out of bed; I took a personal day.
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   leftwingpatriot said, over 1 year ago

   BD’s National Guard unit worked at Ground Zero:

   http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2001/10/23
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   ANQuixote said, over 1 year ago

   At least “Cowboys & Aliens” makes sense.
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   INGSOC said, over 1 year ago

   @Rodney

   Me too…. Ay the time I was working the third shift….
   I happen to awaken to find the smoke was coming away from both towers….
   I was completely numb watching those towers collapse, one after the other….
   I’ll never forget that….
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   Richard S. Russell said, over 1 year ago

   “Many and sharp the num’rous ills
   Inwoven with our frame!
   More pointed still we make ourselves
   Regret, remorse, and shame!
   And man, whose heav’n-erected face
   The smiles of love adorn, —
   Man’s inhumanity to man
   Makes countless thousands mourn!”

   —Robert Burns, Scottish poet, “Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge” (1784)
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    Tog said, over 1 year ago

    I remember that I was off work that terrible day. I’m in England and a friend suddenly emailed me to say that a plane had crashed into the world trade centre. I thought maybe a light plane and turned the TV on to witness the horror and reality of what had happened. I have never been so thunderstruck. I witness death everyday as a medic but this time the tears wouldn’t stop.
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    VistaBill said, over 1 year ago

    Gary, thank you…
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    cdward said, over 1 year ago

    I was getting ready to go from my house to the office next door when my sister-in-law called & said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. We turned on the TV in time to watch the second plane hit. Later, I got a call that one of our parishioners – who was a FDNY firefighter – was at the WTC and hadn’t reported back. I spent the rest of the day with his family (I’m their pastor) waiting for word from him. It never came.
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    Muchadou said, over 1 year ago

    Thank you Gary. Mxx
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    cpl.jarhead said, over 1 year ago

    Do not grieve for the dead but grieve for the liveing for they carry the burden of remembering
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    Eric Miller said, over 1 year ago

    Was 3000 miles away, commuting to work on a bus in LA. Still hit hard, still they sent us home (worked in a high rise, part shock, part security concern). Even though so far away, I’m with B.D. — will always remember, don’t wish to see coverage, don’t need to relive horror. At times there is a NY – LA antagonism, but on this only shared horror and complete sympathy with anyone close.
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