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Remembering 14 years ago

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  • Remembering 14 years ago

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    and those who lost their lives and those who worked so hard to save lives.


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    I had worked all night the previous night on a server rebuild. I was staying at a hotel near the client's office, and my wife had come to Houston to stay with me. I got back to the hotel about 7:30 AM, and went straight to sleep, having been awake WAY too long.

    Next thing I knew, my wife was patting my arm to wake me up, and was watching the horror on the television, and I remember asking (sincerely and honestly) which of the "Die Hard" episodes that was. She very seriously said, "I think this is real - it's on all the channels". And she began clicking through all the channels - sure enough - same story. Local authorities were suggesting that occupants/residents of Houston's bigger buildings go home.

    So, yes ---- to the friends and families of those who "ran in" while others were "running out", and paid the ultimate sacrifice...
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • #3
      I was working doing graphic design stuff, and my mom called me and asked if we had a TV at work, so I turned it on a few minutes after the first plane hit. At first I thought it was some sort of mishap with a plane, and then the second plane hit.

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      • #4
        Yeah, I think "the second plane" was pretty much the "removes all doubt" moment, and stopped all the (otherwise) endless speculation.
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          Yeah, I think "the second plane" was pretty much the "removes all doubt" moment, and stopped all the (otherwise) endless speculation.
          Yeah. I think most of us didn't even want to consider the possibility of a deliberate attack until that point forced us to.
          "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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          • #6
            Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
            Yeah. I think most of us didn't even want to consider the possibility of a deliberate attack until that point forced us to.
            At the risk of sounding trite - that was "the smoking gun" - quite literally. You worded it well - we were "forced to" acknowledge it for what it was.

            On a side note, I had recently (just shortly before 9/11) used as a sermon illustration the incident where a B-25 bomber slammed into the Empire State Building in 1945, because the pilot was "off the radio beam". (I'm sure you can construct the application)

            So, that was fresh in my mind as I considered the first plane may actually have been a bad accident.
            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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