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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #40 on: September 11, 2012, 03:47:13 PM »
I was by the dentist supposed to have some kinda surgery. I frgt to take a pill before I came so the doctors were discussing if they can still operate meanwhile they put on the TV for me a few min later they had breaking news that a plane crashed in wtc and then I watched live as 2nd plane hit then everyone stopped what they were doing and were glued on to the TV. I was 11 at the time and didn't understand what it meant that America was under attack on the way back to school my mother explained it to me. then my mother called my sister that was still sleeping and scream that the whole world is falling apart and your sleeping so she jumped outta bed and broke her toe!!
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #41 on: September 11, 2012, 03:53:35 PM »
whats merve? 4:10 in or so
It's a portable base.  By both gathering the big trucks that said bbssp were the merves

Mobile emergency response vehicle. Usually pd and shomrim
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #42 on: September 11, 2012, 04:44:01 PM »
whats merf? 4:10 in or so
eMergency Response Vehicle. It`s actually a on location command center

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #43 on: September 11, 2012, 04:50:53 PM »
eMergency Response Vehicle. It`s actually a on location command center
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #44 on: September 12, 2012, 01:27:51 AM »
i was in Class then (Rabbi Weimer in HAC). it was right after shachris and his wife -the secretary- came in and whispered something into his ear. then he became very serious, he told us that the world trade center has been hit. then his wife came in again to tell him about the 2nd one. - she was the only one in the school who listened to the radio every morning.
now, a kid like me that i was, brought up in a frum house with no television or internet (well there wasnt much) didnt really know what the WTC was. i only knew about the twin towers, i didnt know they were called WTC :) so i asked my rebbi, what the world train center was!! lol

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #45 on: September 12, 2012, 10:58:39 PM »
9th Grade, 1st period of the day.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #46 on: September 12, 2012, 11:02:45 PM »
8th grade, playing basketball during breakfast

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #47 on: September 11, 2013, 09:36:21 AM »
DDF moment of silence?

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #48 on: September 11, 2013, 09:39:25 AM »
DDF moment of silence?
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #49 on: September 11, 2013, 09:43:43 AM »
In school.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #50 on: September 11, 2013, 09:44:46 AM »
8th grade, playing basketball during breakfast
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #51 on: September 11, 2013, 09:46:47 AM »
Walking through the overpass connecting WTC and WFC.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #53 on: September 11, 2013, 10:13:29 AM »
At home before cheider.

Grandfather called with what he heard on the radio.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #54 on: September 11, 2013, 10:29:34 AM »
I was working Downtown at the time. I came out of the Broad street M station at 9:05 am and it was literally raining glass, papers, debris-5 blocks away. We had no idea what happened one person said "oh i think the stock exchange was bombed" (we were standing in front of the SE at the time)  I remember thinking no wonder there is so much paper falling.  Then as I walking toward Broadway people were telling us what happened I headed to the office instead of walking one block over to Trinity St. to see the WTC.  When the second tower fell our building literally swayed.  We ended up walking home over the Brooklyn bridge back to Brooklyn. The debris was knee deep...I can still remember the acrid smell of the city in the weeks after that

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #55 on: September 11, 2013, 11:58:44 AM »
I was in elementary. I heard at first from a friend that a small plane hit the WTC by mistake. Then I heard it was terrorists and that they have a bunch of plants that they hijacked. I eventually heard that both towers were hit, and that one of them toppled. From looking out the window in school I was able to see tons of smoke and what I imagined be a half standing tower.

Later that day I sat glued to the TV for hours, trying my hardest to digest what took place in the previous hours. I now regret never visiting the towers when I lived so close to them.
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #56 on: September 11, 2013, 12:04:52 PM »
In cheider, we went up on the roof and watched it collapsing.

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #57 on: September 11, 2013, 12:29:54 PM »
ON SEPT 9TH WE WERE IN OUR CITY APT, TOLD WIFE WEATHER SO NICE LETS GO OUT TO EAST END OF
L I--- WIFE REMINDED ME WE HAD BREAKFAST RESERVATION FOR 9/11  AT MARRIOTT  AT  TWIN TOWERS  -- TOLD HER CANCEL AS WANT TO READ ON THE BEACH SINCE LAST FEW DAYS OF SUMMER  -- END RESULT-- HOTEL WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED  -- ON 9/11 I WAS IN MY HOME AND PARTNER CALLED AND TOLD ME TURN ON TV A PLANE JUST CRASHED INTO HOTEL --HIS REMARK--WAS THE PILOT BLIND -- SAW THE 2ND PLANE HIT AND KNEW IT WAS NO ACCIDENT --

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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #58 on: September 11, 2013, 12:51:03 PM »
Was in elementary with windows facing lower manhattan, couldn't see the towers but remember it going from being a gorgeous morning without a cloud in the sky and all of a sudden it seemed so cloudy. Kids came in said that the towers were hit and that there were cops talking with the principal in front of the building. Of course I didn't believe them. We were dismissed early, I remember there was paper EVERYWHERE. Was glued ot the tv for the rest of the day. I think only ch 13 worked for a while unless you had cable tv because the broadcast antennas for the other channels were on the WTC.
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Re: Where were you on September 11, 2001?
« Reply #59 on: September 11, 2013, 12:53:30 PM »
I was in Brooklyn on the way to Yeshiva and saw all the smoke and papers falling... Heard / saw tons of emergency vehicles rushing.
Found out a few minutes later what happened, so I went to the roof of Derech Chaim and saw the tower(s) smoking away, I turned to a friend and said "you wanna go there"? so we went to the F train and got the last one into Manhattan before they shut down the subway system. On the way though there is one area where everyone in the train was able to see the towers, and everyone was wondering what happened so I said a plan hit the towers and the train just got deadly silent.
After we got into Manhattan they announced the subway was being evacuated due to an on going emergency.
So we walked towards ground zero, it was after the 1st tower fell as we were dodging ppl that were pull of white soot. We got pretty close when we finally decided its probably a stupid idea to try to get closer, we eventually walked back to Brooklyn over the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridge (I don't remember which one it was).
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