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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2012, 11:20:54 PM »
I was a 10yr old boy in cheder, I don't remember too much of that day, but I remember buys telling me about bombs flying around in Jerusalem and Washington DC....
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2012, 11:41:46 PM »
I was a 10yr old boy in cheder, I don't remember too much of that day, but I remember buys telling me about bombs flying around in Jerusalem and Washington DC....
so meshugner is 21yrs old

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Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2012, 11:44:32 PM »
Boy, its a young crowd here....

I feel old! 

I was 20 at the time, learning in Israel... Watched it unfold on (I assume) the only TV in Bais Yisroel.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2012, 11:57:40 PM »
i was in 8th grade at the time, in ysv (for all those mentioning yeshivas) and my rebbe came in and said there had been a gr8 tragedy and a plane hit the twin towers. of course we didnt believe him and then the princibal came in said another plane hit, and a few min later said one building fell and then another,

we didnt fully understand the severity of it all, until i got home and i was too glued to the tv all night and i rememeber seeing guliani speaking to the press.

though @sky it hit me much later on, but it really hit me at my brothers wedding when my sister in law walked down with her mother....and her brother, bec her father was killed in the attack,
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2012, 02:45:23 AM »
Was in London. Had a flight back to NYC and from there one onto GYE to run high-holiday services there.
Needless to say, I wasn't able to catch my flight back to NYC and, in turn, my flight from NYC-GYE.
(Ultimately United refunded me my way nack from LHR-NYC).
A new trip was arranged from LHR-MAD-UIO-GYE to get there on time for R"H.
I remember davening shachris in UIO and some airport personnel almost ripped out my tefillin off my head saying I had some weird "devices" on...
Also on my UIO-GYE flight I sat next to two Arabs and, to add to my nervousness, the flight was as turbulent as ever.. One of the arabs slowly pulled out a handwatch from his shirt pocket as the plane was running for takeoff, looked at it and put it back into his pocket.. My head started playing all kinds of movies...
Yes, everyone was terrified as the new were fresh..
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2012, 03:02:42 AM »
Was just after my sheva brochos, and although I wasn't in the USA, I knew of the twin tower and what it meant to the americans.

I was thinking:"Hell, this means a third world war"...

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2012, 04:43:10 AM »
Where was Q274?

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2012, 07:07:57 AM »
I was not q274 at that time- I was actually in yeshiva in miami-

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2012, 07:31:28 AM »
Morristown yeshiva. @DovDov iWas 18 :)
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2012, 07:34:42 AM »
I heard it on the way back from school.
I remember that I was all upset as I was gonna visit NY chanuka time and now couldn't go up the twin towers...:-\

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2012, 07:43:27 AM »
or driving to the 5 towns seeing the skyline empty with a pillar of smoke will never forget that every time i drive by :(
As kids i remember every time we drove from the Ohel to Ch there's a stretch -as soon as you get of the belt onto the cunduit before it splits to Linden, where you were able to see the twin towers, and we would love pointing them out. I haven't thought about it untill recently when I was driving there with my wife and I saw the Freedom Tower going up in the exact same place. I got a little emotional, tried explaining it to my wife but she's an Out-of-towner and didnt really get it

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2012, 09:51:32 AM »
i was actually sleeping in my dorm when someone poked his head in and said that a plane hit the twin towers, i didnt believe him till i heard it from some more guys in yeshiva

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2012, 10:36:02 AM »
i was on the "f" train to nyc
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2012, 11:23:39 AM »
cool video of hatzolah dispatching 9/11 (if anyone has any questions understanding the "lingo"  feel free to ask please:
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2012, 11:31:30 AM »
My yeshivah was in middle of learning first Seder ( a Beis medrash yeshivah ) and we did not know about it until 12:00 .
Think we were the only yeshiva that learnt from 9:30 to 12
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #36 on: September 11, 2012, 11:53:23 AM »
i was on the "f" train to nyc

pun? :)

def. not the best train to be on ;)
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #37 on: September 11, 2012, 01:33:51 PM »
smith and 9th street no pun indended
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #38 on: September 11, 2012, 02:06:27 PM »
Classroom. I told the principle that it is going to be in my childrens history books. He got mad at me, "this is what you are thinking about? Litzunis?"

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2012, 02:31:58 PM »
cool video of hatzolah dispatching 9/11 (if anyone has any questions understanding the "lingo"  feel free to ask please:
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whats merf? 4:10 in or so
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