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[USSAmerica]

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

[Gridley380]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

Just think: this year, there will be voters who hadn't been born yet on 9/11.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

[:(]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

I don't think anyone will (or should). I know that I certainly won't.[:(]

[AW1Steve]

I think I just got a truly , honest to God UIP. Wow. My 1st in years. [:)]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Tithe......[:)]

Yo, Steve-O!

Hola Mike! [:)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I think I just got a truly , honest to God UIP. Wow. My 1st in years. [:)]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[nashvillen]

I remember, 18 years ago, how strange the sky looked without contrails in it.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

I remember, 18 years ago, how strange the sky looked without contrails in it.

Yeah. I lived with Reagan national in view of my living room window. No planes for over a month. Of course looking out the same window I watched the building my spouse worked in/was in, (The Pentagon) Burn. For three days after. This was the month after I had retired from the USNR. I'd have given almost anything to go back in at that time. [:(]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I think I just got a truly , honest to God UIP. Wow. My 1st in years. [:)]

Thanks. No doubt it'll be another couple of years till the next. [:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

I remember, 18 years ago, how strange the sky looked without contrails in it.

Yeah. I lived with Reagan national in view of my living room window. No planes for over a month. Of course looking out the same window I watched the building my spouse worked in/was in, (The Pentagon) Burn. For three days after. This was the month after I had retired from the USNR. I'd have given almost anything to go back in at that time. [:(]

That must have been scary. How long before you knew your wife was OK?

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: nashvillen

I remember, 18 years ago, how strange the sky looked without contrails in it.

Yeah. I lived with Reagan national in view of my living room window. No planes for over a month. Of course looking out the same window I watched the building my spouse worked in/was in, (The Pentagon) Burn. For three days after. This was the month after I had retired from the USNR. I'd have given almost anything to go back in at that time. [:(]

That must have been scary. How long before you knew your wife was OK?

About an hour and a half. All phones and cell communications crashed in the DC area. But she gave me enough info so that I could meet her and several other "refugees" (no metro , or any other way to leave the Pentagon except walking. One of her co-workers was on crutches.After an hour of back roads and alley ways (I'd lived in Alexandria/Arlington off and on for ten years at that point) we managed to link up and spend the next couple of hours trying to get everyone back to our high rise. Fortunately Emails worked , so I was finally able to contact my (then) 70 year old father who had just bought his 1st computer. He was able to call our friends and relatives , otherwise they , like everyone else who had relatives and friends in DC , had to wait till the phones finally opened up a day or so later.

The irony is like most of our families , I'd spent a lot in time in uniform (23 years) but none of us ever received combat pay. Except the lawyer (NAVY JAG) sitting in the office . SHE got it! (for one month). [:D]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I think I just got a truly , honest to God UIP. Wow. My 1st in years. [:)]

You're out of practice, old timer. It's a "UNP" for future reference. [:'(]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

Nor I. That's one of a handful of 'flashbulb memories' that I hold-indelible pictures in the bottle of time etched onto my soul. Some good. Most bad. [:(]

On a less somber note: I've thought it interesting how you can date someone by their flashbulb memories. The ones that I am willing to talk about are the Challenger explosion, the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and 9/11. My in-laws (and my mother and father) both remember exactly where they were and what they were doing and who they were with when they heard about JFK being assassinated. I wonder what the common threads are for non-Americans of about our same age group, USSMike?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
The irony is like most of our families , I'd spent a lot in time in uniform (23 years) but none of us ever received combat pay. Except the lawyer (NAVY JAG) sitting in the office . SHE got it! (for one month). [:D]

That's funny. Not haha funny, but ironic funny. I bet that comes up sometimes in spousal disputes or displays of street cred amongst your military peers too. [:D]

[nashvillen]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

Nor I. That's one of a handful of 'flashbulb memories' that I hold-indelible pictures in the bottle of time etched onto my soul. Some good. Most bad. [:(]

On a less somber note: I've thought it interesting how you can date someone by their flashbulb memories. The ones that I am willing to talk about are the Challenger explosion, the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and 9/11. My in-laws (and my mother and father) both remember exactly where they were and what they were doing and who they were with when they heard about JFK being assassinated. I wonder what the common threads are for non-Americans of about our same age group, USSMike?

CB, similar here. All three I can specifically mention who I was with and where I was at those times.

[nashvillen]

Good Morning.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: USSAmerica

September 11, 2001. I will never forget.

Nor I. That's one of a handful of 'flashbulb memories' that I hold-indelible pictures in the bottle of time etched onto my soul. Some good. Most bad. [:(]

On a less somber note: I've thought it interesting how you can date someone by their flashbulb memories. The ones that I am willing to talk about are the Challenger explosion, the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and 9/11. My in-laws (and my mother and father) both remember exactly where they were and what they were doing and who they were with when they heard about JFK being assassinated. I wonder what the common threads are for non-Americans of about our same age group, USSMike?

The Challenger for me is easy to recall. I was on the flight line at Jacksonville Florida (While attending VP-30, the USN "RAG" Squadron.). My class was just returning from an aircraft walk through when we saw what we 1st thought was an aerobatic team doing a really ragged "bomburst" maneuver. One of my fellow students said "the Blues" (Blue Angels) must be doing a practice near Platka". A Senior Chief heard it and said "That's the space shuttle your'e looking at. It Just blew up!". The instructor then said, "Right...enough about that , let's go take your test". The entire class failed the test.



For Reagan's assassination I was in college , as I was when I heard about the US Iran embassy being seized. I received double shocks learning about the Beruit Barracks attacks and the invasion of Grenada coming out of class in Winchester Hants UK where I was studying as an exchange student.

For JFK's assassination I was staying with my grandparents, RFK's and MLK's I was getting on the school bus. My earliest memory of a "traumatic event" was that my family was very concerned about Cuba , as my uncle had just been activated my the USNR.

One of life's greatest truisms is the alleged Chinese Curse/Blessing "may you live in interesting times". If youlive long enough , and travel enough , your bound to receive this "blessing". [:D]