What were your first gut reactions to 9/11?

When you first saw the news releases on tv, the video of the crashes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon?

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My very 1st gut reaction? Oh my... I said aloud to my friend on the phone with me, "I hope this isn't how Bush plans to save his a$$."

It was only a bit later when I heard the explosion and then smelt smoke and whatnot that it shook me to my core and sent me into tears--the plane that went down was about 30 minutes from my home by car.

We then spent 8 days worried over 2 cousins who were in the Pentagon.

We lost friends and friends of friends in NYC that day.

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I was home that morning. On Sept. 1, I had lost the last job I would ever have, thanks to my "advanced age" and the collapsed Texas economy. I NEVER turn on the TV in the morning. But that day I thought I'd just see what was going on with the Today Show. I came in just after the plane had hit the Pentagon and the first tower was burning. I watched as the third plane hit the second tower. I remember there was stunned silence from the TV commentator for about 5 seconds. He could not believe what he had just seen. Neither could I.

There was a similar stunned silence moments later when the towers began collapsing. I was thinking all along, life is imitating the movies.

My other response was "This is going to mean war." But war with whom? We didn't even know who was responsible yet. Then we heard that Bush was in no rush to get his sorry ass back to Washington. What with his avoidance of combat during Vietnam and this display of fecklessness, it's obvious we've got one gutless coward for a president. 

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My sister called me on the phone and told me to turn on the tv. Because the tower that was hit second went down first, {now why was that?}, I remained confused about what I was seeing, whether it was taking place in "real time" or whether it was "replay". 

For a long time afterwards, as I live on a hill that overlooks downtown and all the hi-rises, I would check periodically to see if they were still there {this is in Seattle}.  Also, I remember being very grateful that no aircraft were flying for a long time -- a blessed relief from noise that we had simply become used to tuning out! 

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was shock. I couldn't believe what had happened. I was at work that day. An Inmate came into the office and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I was like, "Yeah, ok, I've got work to do..." A short while later, the same Inmate came in and grabbed my arm, (Something very out of the ordinary-you don't touch staff)and said, "You've got to come see on TV, another plane hit the second tower." I went to this Inmates cell and watched the events unfold on TV. My co-workers joined me shortly.

Unlike the rest of you I didn't start to believe in conspiracy until later. I was shocked and filled with grief for all the victims and their families.

Spooky

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My shock and grief coupled with my gut instinct that it was staged, all together, filled me with horrible disgust and revulsion.

That a conspiring entity would eliminate thousands of people in a plan to manipulate the world, truly is the epitome of evil.

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I fully agree. That that would be done to manipulate world power and of course money is even more shocking. And terrible. And I believe it was.

Spooky

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I stated on a bulletin board the same day to my American friends,

"I feel as though we are standing on the edge of a great void, about to fall down, lose our way.  It is the end of the forward progress of modern civilization as we know it."

My feelings were basically along the lines of, 'oh great.  Here I was thinking we are actually making progress and putting an end to war and becoming a more enlightened species, and then some guys fly some jet liners into buildings and kill 2000 people.  That's just great.  Well, I guess we really ARE still just a bunch of stupid cave men bashing each other's brains in'

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My first reaction was one of total disbelief. I was alone in my coffee shop which had only been in business for a couple of months at the time. One of my last of the morning customers had just left previous to me turning on the little tv I had in there to listen to while I made the lunch special for the day. I remember standing there watching in total disbelief and watching the events unfold and I felt goosebumps raise on my skin and than I admit it, anger raised up inside me.  Angry sorrow. 

Later that evening, my little rented space was off a convenience store with a gas station and I watched as they were in line wating for gas in fear that we were going to be rationed. I remember watching because I had run errands and returned to my shop to put away the groceries for the next day's lunch specials and I think I even had made a batch of my sausage gravy while watching all this take place.  I just remember thinking to myself that I will not cave into this fear factor that was already taking place and I didn't. peace & blessings---ginger

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...I had worked night shift and was in bed sleeping in Mpls.  I was having a rather horrifying dream that people were trying to warn me that there was going to be a terrible plane crash!

I was awakened by the phone ringing at about 9 AM.  My husband who was at work was telling me that I'd better turn on the news.

This particular dream was very clear, and there was a  pervasive feeling of fear, and I had a hard time switching gears to what I was hearing.

After I was awake enough to take in what I was hearing, It took a couple of hours before I put the two things together.

I was worried because both my husband and younger daughter were in downtown Mpls. and I thought that maybe other cities with tall buildings would be hit also.

I went downtown and watched the news unfold from my daughter's apartment.  There was not much traffic.

I also remember the quiet when the planes were grounded.  One of the kids I cared for at the time lived close to downtown and there was always alot of plane noise overhead.

When the planes started flying again the child's father came back from jogging and told us that there were people in the park looking up at the sky and cheering!!

Now the tears come back.

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I had a recurring dream I was on an airliner. It was going down and nothing could be done to stop it. I no longer have that dream.

Spooky  

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how many others had such dreams....I'll bet thousands.

Spooky

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I'm in California..it was early morning. I had put the dogs outside, and turned on the TV in my bedroom, thinking to catch some news. Brought the dogs inside, and got back into bed, only to see the second plane hit.
I got on the ohone to my prayer circle. Told them "I don't know what;s happening, but you have to get up and start praying."
Same thing I had done when OK was hit. I had just gottne home from work that morning, and (as usual) flipped on the set and let out the dogs.
When you've been through a bomb, I guess you tend to view things differently.
I watched television all that day. I still couldn't figure out what I was seeing. Was it a movie? A rehearsal?...I just didn't know. This is not to discount the tragedy of the people involved, those who were killed.
When they showed the pentagon..I KNEW how wrong it was. The "AMAZING PENT-A-LAWN" told me the whole story!
For a couple weeks I still tried to watch TV. To this day, I simply can't fathom where the investagative reporters were. Every 5 minutes we *got* to see the same footage. Every network.
SO...I turned off my television. Turned it to the wall, and there it sits.

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to experiment on people, kill people, put people in panic, death, chaos for their own desires.

it sucked............the government sucks....always doing somethiing to the people, making poisons, virusesm wars, poverty, .

oh....9/11  was my 1st wedding anniversary....im now divorced.............that sucks too!

I feel kinda about the whole thing...its a wonder I have such a wonderful sense of humor left  between the Government sucking and animal killers sucking........the whole world pretty much sucks.............

except for us....hehe....

Yes, except for us!

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I WAS IN NEW YORK  AT TRAUMA CONFERENCE, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT. I WENT TO WORK . AS FOR DELAYED REACTIONS I WILL GET WEEPY AT CERTAIN MEMORIES OF THAT DAY.  I WILL BECOME LIVID WHEN I START THINKING ABOUT  BUSH'S LIES  2 DAYS LATER, AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SINCE.

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I was awakened by this event. I was pulled to the tv to see the events taking place. This was before the worst of it. The first thing I said, "What the hell does bush think he is doing?" I had a feeling immediately that he was involved and had prior knowledge. I felt it was an attempt to get people's attention away from ENRON and that whole mess.

Tell us why there were certain organizations not there in that building that day. Why were there almost all young democrats in the building that day. I am totally creeped out by so many things I have seen and personal accounts I have heard about the day. And not just the towers, but the odd things surrounding the Pentagon.

There was no excuse for this. They did a better job dealing with crazy airplane bombers when Clinton was in office. Anyone remember the guy trying to fly his plane into the White House?

I hope we can get out of this mess. There just has to be a way. My neighbors all voted for Kerry. I know, I got out there and talked to them face to face.

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Hi,

My husband was in nursing school at the time. A fellow student had left the class and came back hysterical. The teacher tried to calm her and the student finally led the teacher to the student lounge where the tv was on.

The teacher came back to the class and dismissed it telling the students that she didn't know what was happening but them all to go home and be safe. My husband listened to the radio on the way home and got a lot of conflicting and inaccurate information.

I was asleep when he came in and woke me saying, "The world's gone crazy! There's planes crashing into buildings, car bombs in Washington..." I said, "Are we under attack?" and he said, "I think so."

I jumped up and turned on the tv. It was about 10:30 - 11:00 DST at the time. After a few minutes I said, "Well Bushy O' boy, what are you going to do now?"

I didn't suspect US involvement at the time. While I certainly never liked Bush and felt he'd stolen the election, I never thought that even he would do something like that. I was so shocked that anything like this could ever happen in the US.

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My husband called out to me from the living room and I ran in thinking something was terribly wrong with him or our baby.  Instead I found him sitting to the front edge of his recliner with tears running down his face.  I think the enormity of what he was watching had registered. 

For me, it was total disbelief.  I could not grasp what I was seeing.  I remember sinking down to the floor with the baby on my lap and just watching.  No one said anything...what a terrible sound silence.

I was in D.C. a year and a half ago, totally by accident.  We had gone to pick up my some in Norfolk and missed the Titus Corner turn off to head back to Michigan.  Ended up in D.C. and wow! 

I felt something when I was by the pentagon that I cannot explain without some people thinking I'm a tad bit touched in the head.

As we circled around the pentagon...I felt an immense power.  I couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time though.  I have come to the conclusion that what I felt was the grief and the fear of those souls lost at the bombing.  Never set free to move on because there has been no closure.  This really disturbs me, not in an evil way, in a spiritual sense.

So.........I hope we never have to walk the road of 9/11 again.  Not here or anywhere.

In peace,

Leese

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i thought, "well, we finally have a taste of our own medicine. so, how does it taste?"

then finding out that our own administration actually let it occur, "boy, what a bunch of fools we are."

plus, i now think because of the invasion of iraq and the current re-selection of the idiot in the white house, "all of us are now targets."

and i continue to think, "we are still getting a taste of our own medicine being served out by our very own dictator. so, how does it taste?"

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I was cleaning house and I decided to go up-stairs to clean the 3rd. floor. However, I stopped to put on the tv. When I did, I was stunned and shocked, at what I saw. I started to clean the window in my son's room. I looked up and saw this ..low sounding plane. I became nervous...and went to the ground level in my house. As I continue to watch tv. ..minutes later the crash happened at Shanksville, Pa.

For a whole week..I was afraid to go up to the 3 floor in my house.  Not only was the low plane the one who crashed in Shankesville..it was the one my husband I were on a mere 3 weeks earlier! 

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I called my mother, as usual, that morning to shoot the %#&!*% with her... asked her what she was doing.  She told me she was watching the news about the WTC being hit by planes.  I turned on my tv, and like many, was shocked at what I saw.  I thought of war, that this was not an accident.

I was sitting in bed reading and I had the radio on.There was this goofy program on and when the guy first said the tower had been hit by a plane,the way he said it,I thought it was a sick joke and so did the other people on the station.Then he said it again and I turned on the tv just in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower.

I sat there for a moment stunned.

Then I ran and told my mom to change the channel something serious was going on.

I sat there watching for ,I dont know how many hours,in shock.

I was horrified.My grandmother likened it to the attack on Pearl Harbor except this was happening live play by play.

I dont think I even got dressed that day.I went back to my room several hours later and cried for all the victims.

I knew things would change and I feared for the future of the USA under the leadership of Bush.I still fear for our future.

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..."How unoriginal." 

There is a Tom Clancy book entitled Debt of Honor, whose ending is quite eerily foreshadowing of this tragedy.  Different target, different kind of plane...end result: a populace that let the new President do whatever he wanted.

Clancy made it sound like a good thing.  I remember thinking, "George just couldn't resist, could he?"

I was home that morning.  I NEVER turn on the TV in the morning. But that day my daughter had left it on when she left the room.  I came in after the plane had hit the first tower and it was burning. I listened as the announcer repeated over and over what was happening.  I thought at first it was a video tape, until the announcer said ‘you are watching live …’.  Tears began to fall and as I watched another plane hit the second tower. I remember clearly thinking to myself, ‘Why is the United States government doing this?’  

I am not a news watcher or a newspaper reader.  I had no idea what was going on in the States, as I didn’t pay much attention then.  There was no reason for me to think what I did, it just came to my mind.  My belief in that thought never wavered and now that I DO read news I realize I was right.  Many people here in Canada still think I’m bonkers about this.

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Where Were You September 11th, Two Thousand One

An Introduction...
"Where Were You When America Was Attacked?"

This site exists to gather the thoughts and emotions of everyday people to the events on and after September 11, 2001.

Why must we record these thoughts?

Wouldn't it have been wonderful to have known what everyday people felt when Pearl Harbor was bombed or what the nation was thinking when the word Vietnam was first introduced into our nation's psyche or when Kennedy was assassinated, and how those views changed as the events afterwards unfolded? It would be a great historical resource. The media records everything, true, but those records get lost and aren't compiled like these fresh ongoing thoughts from people of all backgrounds.

How has your patriotism changed since the incident? What were you doing when you found out? What did you feel at first? How do you feel now? What do you want to see happen? Did you do anything to help?

If you've lost somebody, were involved in the rescue, viewed it happening, or were of the many hoping, praying, and crying back home glued in front of your tv set, frantically trying to call yours, tell us your story, so generations and generations after will remember that it wasn't only a war on our buildings, our government, our economy, but of our hearts and lives and everything that makes us an American.

These are the World's hearts and thoughts.

http://wherewereyou.org

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I didn't see the TV until that afternoon.  But someone called on my phone, and my very first reaction was to wonder how much Bush paid to have it done, and by whom.

My second reaction was to say, out loud, "come on, Michelle, this isn't the X-Files."

I cried when I saw the telecast, and only later did I start to trust my first gut reaction, after I heard that Bush didn't want an investigation. 

The Pentagon evidence was the final straw for me.  I tried hard to be "fair" to Bush, but that just tore it.  There is a staggering pile of evidence that it's an inside job.

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I was on the 9:11am train out of Port Washington, Long Island on 9/11. There is a 5 second moment before entering the tunnell at 34th St. where you could see the towers.  Everyone on the train shifted to the left of the car to view the scene.  I did not really know what had happened yet.  Whispers...a plane...it's bad it's bad...The subways were not running and commuters were literally dumb struck, standing going nowhere, as if in a tableau.  I could have turned round and headed back home, but I didn't.  I went to work by cab and heard the pentagon had been hit on the taxi's radio.  The Egyptian cab driver  said, "the poor people, the poor people...we are being attacked!"  Then I knew. New Yorkers always spoke of this moment, and its here, I thought-attacked.  The Big Apple, the focus of almost every ground zero of every disaster movie.  Why do we want to see apocalypse again and again? 

I ran an inpatient drug and alcohol detox/rehab at the time.  I asked everyone as I walked into the building, staff and patient alike-"Do you have anyone there?" meaning at the towers.  Yes, but he's safe. No. Yes, I am trying to reach her.  The cell phones didn't work.  The antennae were on top of the towers.  The clinical director flew into my office as a moving tornadoe demanding, "Where are our leaders?"

I've been asking the same question over and over since then.  My intuition upon Bush's election delivered wavedlike nausea visions of suspicion, darkness, greed, and malficiance.  A group had stolen our government.  This has nothing to do with Democrats/Republicans and every thing to do with the sell out of America, the great governmental experiment.  9/11 served to support my view and nothing since then has assuaged my perspective; only re-enforced the ideas I prayed were not true.   

Jerry, the clinical director and I, had ice cream soda's for lunch-just in case we were breathing our last.  I walked down Broadway at 6pm in the middle of the street.  Manhattan was wounded and the boroughs had let her be for the night.  The ride back to Port Washington through that same tunnel felt now like an act of bravery.  Would a bomb explode?  Would we get home safely?  Every day sounds of trains squeaking and squealing sounded internal alarms.  Of course, home is where we all wanted to be that day.  Even now, I feel tears burning in for those who never saw home again, and more, for those who were home waiting for the lost ones.

On 9/11 I was on a small Caribbean island. Off the coast were a few yachts. On one of them was a lone yachtsman who I had spent many evenings with. He was an egoistic Republican, very right wing, with some ideas that horrified me with their lack of human compassion. Despite that, we enjoyed our, often heated, discussions.

On the morning of 9/11 I had already watched the collapse of the towers on TV when he came ashore in his dinghy. He moored, came over to me and asked what was going on, he'd only heard snippets on a radio with intermittant reception. He heard that the planes had flown into the towers, nothing more. I told him they had just collapsed. He looked at me like I were an imbecile and told me it was impossible. I told him impossible as it may be, they had collapsed. He began arguing with me, so I just took him into a friend's house where he could see it on TV himself. He went white and continued to mutter it being an impossibility. 

He headed one of the main contractors that built the towers.

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[Now, if we could just get that guy to testify............]  BT

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First thought, WAR has begun. Christian Bible book of Revelation, prophecy becoming realtiy. My second thought was for the safety of my nephew's family in El Segundo. Actually LAX is in El Segundo, Los Angeles is across the road. My next thought was for my East Coast family's safety. No television my news of events came from newspaper's and radio, personal conversations.

Within days, I was telling people, my "conspiracy therory". The American people had been played to work up a frenzy supporting war against "them". "for one to be successfully manipulated, one must not know they are being manipulated".

At the time I saw it in simplistic terms, Bush's revenge and Bush family ties to oil. Now I think it's my sinister than that.

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I was in shock and asked myself is this how the new world order would begin?My dad is a man who has always been distrustful of any government.I had a friend who just moved to NYC.She was on a rooftop in Brookyn.She moved back to Canada...

I guess my first reaction was how could this happen?It was a daze of lies feeling and I began to think of a conspiracy

When I saw this pix I began to cry.

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I had just moved to the Seattle area from Florida and hadn't even been here a month when this happened.  Because of the time differences I was still in bed when it initially happened and not aware untill my phone rang and my dad who was back in Florida called to tell me to get up and turn on the tv.  By then all three planes had hit and it was clear we were under attack. 

I was shocked, horrified, emotional and ranting & raving about vengence.  We were still on the phone together discussing the crisis and wondering how they might go about getting all the people out when they first builiding came down.  There was a dead silence on both ends of the phone for the longest time as we both tried to digest what we had witnessed.  Then I heard a sound that I had never heard in my 40 some years on this planet beforehand....my father crying.  I didn't know what to say and let him weep for what seemed like an eternity.  When he finally found his voice again he made the statement...  "they dropped the building Carla".  "you don't understand, somebody deliberately dropped the building, they don't come down like that without help".  Considering my father had spent his entire life in the construction business and had even done demolition work I was positive he knew what he was talking about.

In the following days I emersed myself in the repeated footage of those buildings coming down and when I viewed the one video shot on the street of the enormous dust cloud overtaking everyone and the ghostlike aftermath in the area I was convinced I had seen that scenario before.  Weeks later it dawned on me where.  A few years prior I had been watching the live broadcast of them imploding the Kingdome on CNN.  The local authorities had roped off an area that they considered safe for spectators to watch from.  Within seconds it was clear that the crowd was still too close to the action and they started running in all directions as an enormous cloud of dust and debris billowed outward and engulfed them.  The scene during and afterwards was identical to that played out on 9/11.

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Well, I was only 11 at the time (yeah, I'm young) so my main feeling towards it was confusion. I didn't really understand it at all. I'd never seen anything like it, I was so innocent and ignorant it made no sense at all. I guess at that age I couldn't feel much more than that. I remember very little of what I saw on the news about it when I got home from school. I just remember seeing the planes hit the towers, and the towers fall. The next day at school, everyone was talking about 'the attack on America'.

I've seen/heard/read a lot more about it since then, and I have grown up. Thanks to my father's intelligence and interest in the matter, I know about and believe in the conspiracy.

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Perhaps you should read this:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=3595&pst=689990&archival=

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You didn't think we could avoid it forever, did you?

There are people all over the Internet, including right here on Care2, spreading DIS-information and MIS-information about the events of 9/11. Lies and outlandish rumors and appeals to base prejudice, racial and religious.

It is pretty easy to UNMASK these people and their motives. 9/11 TRUTH is NOT one of their motives; OBFUSCATION and INTERFERING with the truth, obviously is. And, moreover, don't forget, THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING PAID BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO INTERFERE WITH 9/11 TRUTH-TELLING AND TRUTH-SEEKING EFFORTS.

In the '60's, they called it COINTELPRO. Look it up in the Wikipedia. It is a well-known part of the History of those times.

I don't know what the acronym may be now; but, there is obviously a group sponsored by our govt formed for the SAME PURPOSES as the old COINTELPRO. The Administration is getting DESPERATE as the TRUTH is known to more and more and more people -- not just to the VAST MAJORITY abroad, but even now the majority of the AMERICAN PUBLIC does not believe the Official Story -- according to polls, groups such as OURS are doing an EXCELLENT job of informing people, in spite of a near-total media blackout and all the efforts made to discredit us!!!!

So, the Administration goes to right-wing groups and churches, on and off of the Internet, to RECRUIT PEOPLE to INFILTRATE groups such as ours.

THIS IS NOT A GROUP TO "DISCUSS" OR TO "ARGUE" ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE OFFICIAL IDIOTIC STORY, AS GIVEN OUT IN THE KEAN REPORT AND THE SUBSERVIENT MEDIA, IS OR IS NOT TRUE. Go find yourself a Right-Wing group if you want to "discuss" that.

ALL OF US WHO HAVE FORMED THIS GROUP OF NEARLY 400 PERSONS, HERE, WE KNOW THAT:

1] The Official Story is a TOTAL AND COMPLETE LIE THAT CANNOT POSSSIBLY HAVE THE TINIEST OUNCE OF TRUTH IN ANY SINGLE PART OF IT.

2] Meaning, that 12 Arab young guys with box-cutters did NOT, under any possible type of scenario, hijack 4 planes on the orders of some other guy in a cave in Afghanistan, and bring down 3 World Trade Center Towers {yes, THREE towers collapsed on that day, never a WORD of explanation about that third one, officially!}. IT SIMPLY DID NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY. These 12 guys are responsible for NO LOSS OF LIFE AT ALL. NO ARAB FROM ANY COUNTRY ANYWHERE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF AMERICAN LIFE ON 9/11.

3] More and more and more and more EVIDENCE is PILING UP, that IT WAS PERSONS HIGH UP IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ITSELF, whether Bush, Cheney, people at the Pentagon, etc., WHO WERE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH TREASON AND MASS MURDER OF 3000 LIVES ON 9/11. AMERICANS IN HIGH OFFICE; NOT CITIZENS OF SOME OTHER COUNTRY; NOT ARABS; NOT MUSLIMS. I hate to say "Christians". Not as most of US would define a "Christian", anyway. But, DEFINITELY NOT ISLAMIC "TERRORISTS". NO WAY COULD THAT LIE POSSIBLY BE TRUE.

4] We do not KNOW all the FACTS, yet. THAT IS WHAT IT IS OUR BUSINESS TO FIND OUT. That is why we are assembled here on Care2 in this group; to find, search for, share with one another, FACTS we uncover; from blogs, videos, the foreign press, eyewitness accounts, sharing of our OWN experiences, etc.

Some of us have one theory; some another; some of us have complete theories; some have partial ones. All our theories are subject to change as more FACTS are uncovered. I THINK WE ALL WANT A REAL, IMPARTIAL, PROBABLY INTERNATIONAL, INVESTIGATION TO BE HELD.

ANYONE WHO BUYS THE BUSH OFFICIAL FAIRY TALE HOOK, LINE AND SINKER, IS WASTING THE TIME OF THIS GROUP AND ALL ITS REAL MEMBERS. Anyone who is not prepared to share our doubts, and our investigations, you have to ask: What is their REAL purpose for being in a group such as ours??? We have managed just fine without such people, so far.

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i am here because somebody has to be a voice of reason amonst the misinformed and misguided

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Anonymous users should not be allowed in this group -- I thought that they were not allowed -- and I call on the hosts of this group to delete and ban all anonymous users from now on.

I also call on the hosts to delete and ban all disruptors who are paid by the Bush Administration to confuse and distract the members of groups such as ours on the Internet.

We will end up, according to the planned Bush/Karl Rove programme, discussing and arguing about THE DISRUPTOR; rather than, going about our important business here of SPREADING THE WORD EVERYWHERE WE CAN, ABOUT 9/11 TRUTH.

We have been so DAMN SUCCESSFUL SO FAR, that THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES NOW QUESTION THE OFFICIAL STORY. 9/11 Truth is having ASTOUNDING SUCCESS, in spite of a complete media blackout!!! This is DEFINITELY NOT the time to slow down or slack off in our important work of INFORMING EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND EVERY MEDIA OUTLET THAT WE CAN GET HOLD OF!

This is NOT a "discussion group". This is an INFORMATION group. WE RECOGNIZE IMMEDIATELY MIS-INFORMATION AND DIS-INFORMATION COMING FROM BUSH REGIME AGENTS. THE BUSH REGIME WHICH IS ITSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11; AND HAS TRIED AND TRIED AND TRIED TO COVER UP ITS BLOODY, GUILTY FINGERPRINTS BY POINTING TO ARABS AND MUSLIMS.

We are NOT here to discuss endlessly pro and con "Free Speech" issues for Bushco agents and disruptors. By the way, Osama Bin Laden, whose family is a GOOD FRIEND of the Bush family, IS ANOTHER AGENT OF THE BUSH TRAITOROUS REGIME. BIN LADEN IS NOTHING BUT A FLAMBOYANT ACTOR WHO IS GLEEFULLY DELIVERING HIS LINES OFF A BUSH SCRIPT.

A call has gone out over the Internet, to right-wing and religious groups, to come and infiltrate groups in opposition to Bushco. We KNOW this. Many are being PAID for this; other mis-guided persons think it is their "patriotic" or "religious" duty.

WE HAVE MUCH TO DO: WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LET THE DISRUPTORS SOP UP OUR TIME AND ENERGY, WHICH IS LIMITED.

SHOW NO MERCY: GET RID OF THE DISRUPTORS WHO DO NOT ACCEPT THE PURPOSES OF THE GROUP, NOW!!!

REMEMBER WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THE GROUP, IS.

NONSENSICAL DROOL AND DRIVEL ABOUT WHAT BIN LADEN DID OR DID NOT SAY ON SOME OCCASION, HAS ABSOLUTELY ZILCH TO DO WITH EITHER THE PURPOSES OF THE GROUP, OR WITH THIS THREAD, which is "First gut reactions to 9/11".

Getting Bin Laden and Jesus into this {"Muslim vs. Christianity", subliminally}, is recognizable as NOTHING BUT AN EMOTIONAL PROPAGANDA PLOY; AN ATTEMPT TO SHORT-CIRCUIT REASON AND THOUGHT IN FAVOR OF EMOTIONS OF HATE, ANGER, AND FEAR, AGAINST WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS "THE OTHER".

Only people completely devoid of reason could ever accept the Bushco story of 9/11; which is why these sorts of nonsense appeals are the ONLY thing the other side has -- NO Logic, NO Reason, NO FACTS AT ALL, NO SCIENCE. Nothing, nothing, nothing but drool and drivel, nothing but drivel and drool.

Please, hosts, I beg you, don't make us waste our time with this, seen on so many groups in Care2, and finally coming here, where we thought it would never show its stupid, ugly, disruptive head.

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With over 405 members now, and this group has, heretofore, produced physical, documentary, and pictorial evidence, as well as forensic evidence, evidence on security of the towers, and evidence as to controlled demolition, with words spoken by the owner of Tower Number 7, which was intentionally demolished because of the sensitivity of documentation and "governmental offices" within the building, I believe that anyone in their right mind would have thought, particularly, after the crash into the Pentagon, that the country was under attack.  Whether by "terrorists" from a Middle Eastern Country or terrorists, which are not uncommon, within our own borders, such as the bombers of the court house in Oklahoma and those who would bomb "women's clinics around this country" for their "ideological kicks," it matters not whether the first reaction was that this was a "drill/attack/and pre-planned by terrorists, whether they be American or Middle Easterners."  The plain truth is:  The WTC had been bombed before; George W. Bush and Company knew beforehand that it was a real possibility that this would happen, as they were warned repeatedly by those from other countries, and "security officials of this government," that this was going to happen, and we have produced evidence to that effect on this group forum.

SO -- I HAVE TO SAY THIS:  If three "disruptors" do not cease to call other members of this group "disrespectul, incompetent, or untruthful," in their First Reactions, I will do more than just block them from contacting me in any way.  I WILL DELETE:  Before you enter a group, you should decide whether you want to enter a "debate group" or a "topical research group," and you should adhere to the same group principles and "conduct" that others here adhere to.  Do not -- I REPEAT -- do not belittle the feelings and gut reactions of others within this group again; lest all of us "serious members" should ban you from the group and "run you off" - BECAUSE, "Nobody here BELIEVES ANN COULTER, RUSH LIMBAUGH, THE PARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY (Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld) for ONE MINUTE -- or even a second!!!!!!  Our Supreme Court does not, even when packed, go along with Bushco's handling of "suspects," of whom all of us are now suspects, according to Alberto Gonzalez, the GOP-contolled Congress, Donald Rumsfeld, et al, and the "widows and widowers" of 9/11 ARE UPSET, to say the least, in regard to many UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, the existence of PNAC, the players, the missing money out of the Pentagon on September 10th, almost 3 trillion dollars unaccounted for, and the fascist "militarism" that has been instituted by this REGIME in order to DICTATE TO and control the American populace by REMOVAL OF HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

So why should WE believe three smart-alecs who can produce no evidence whatsoever to back up their "accusations," when we have produced physicists, engineers, firemen, videos, sound effects, survivors' testimonies, and demolition experts to coincide, including attorneys and former employees of Republican administrations, as well as "conservatives themselves," who BELIEVE THE OFFICAL STORY TO BE A HOAX and PULLED OFF TO TAKE AWAY RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, in the same way that the Reichstag Fire took place in Nazi Germany.

Neither will Ann-Coulter-style jabs and innuendoes be tolerated on this thread or any other thread within the group; I.E., that is, "calling the 9/11 widows  "witches."   We have worked tirelessly to "tolerate those who would harbor resentments towards the Muslim world because they are AFRAID to face the true facts and circumstances surrounding 9/11." 

And, just for reminders, Daddy Bush and George W. profited immensely in the Carlysle Group because they were in ca-hoots with the Bin Ladin family for production of "weapons and arms" for the purpose of the WARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, of which they had been planning for for well over 10 years, even down to the Old American Century, which included Prescott Bush trading with the enemy, just as Cheney was guilty of trading with the enemy and profiteering from 9/11 and the other wars he so eargerly wanted to satisfy his thirst for POWER.

The 9/11 families deserve a truthful and straightforward investigation and explanation, as well as the American people, whom these warmongers would subject to "mere slavery" for the MILITARY MACHINE and NATIONALISM.

NOW, THEN, Fox News "ain't working on us anymore, okay?"  Neither is "Jerry Falwell."    So straighten up and "fly" right in this group, OR LEAVE IT.  In fact, we'll give you the same chance that you've given us:  LIKE IT OR LEAVE IT.  And I am deleting the anonymous posts, which are not allowed in this group!!!!!

By the way, I wasn't on "vacation," either; I've been working overtime, day and night, to make sure that another election is not stolen in this country.

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LOL! America's favorite fruit is sour grapes, I hope you find a less "nutso" group & get the hell out of here!

We really need a screening test for potential members, these "ignorant"  people are getting tiresome..

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I think the only thing that really surprised me that day was the obvious avoiding of the National Monuments & seat of government! I mean why wouldn't you go for the throat if you were willing to kill yourself in the process? Sure thousands of New Yorkers (and other citizens & foriegners) died - but in a city of millions, so what? Of course it made people upset & fearful.. but why not hit Congress or the White House - maybe disrupt the entire country instead of one area of one city???? It doesn't make sense - not then, not now.. it was all done for profit & power, period.

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Disbelief, then when reality set in I was on the phone coordenateing Emergency management plans, Myself and a group of workers whom are all ex law enforcement set up a stageing area, and took action to make sure all the NYC school children were safe and able to be taken home, after that we set up transportation for commuters to get home, still in disbelief, I went to the site w/ my coworkers and tried to help in the rescue, it was unreal, unhuman, wow I do not want to get these images in my head that took along time to get out so, I am sorry I have to stop here, but all I can say is GOD BLESS ALL WHOM PERISHED, ALL GAVE SOME AND SOME GAVE ALL

09-11-01 EX LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER M.J. FALCO

THANK YOU ALL, MIKee FALCO #3872

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If anyone wants to know first hand accounts of what happened at GROUND ZERO, the day of or up to 6 weeks after I can tell you all, just ask me, and I will respond.

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I did not pay attention to the news that morning. I first went jogging then read a book. I went to work afterward and heard people there mentioning something about a bombing. I did not know what my co-workers were talking about. I figured that a rival air force bombed the U.S. and was wondering if that's what was going on.

I did not find out what was happening until I turned on the TV after getting home and saw that two planes crashed into The World Trade Center and one into The Pentagon. I was shocked when I saw the images. I thought of it as being like a nuclear holocaust. I suspected that the people behind the attacks was either Osama Bin Laden or The Russian government--retaliating against the U.S. for nuclear missle tests. I supported Bush for a while (until the war in Iraq began) because he seemed to have displayed some competence for the first time in his presidential term.

Now that I think about it, if Bush displayed competence after the attacks happened then he was probably coached before September 11. This would probably indicate a conspiracy. 

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Michael F., I gotta wonder why you say you would respond to direct inqueries, but not on the public forum.. wouldn't it be less traumatic to write it once, rather than reliving it with each reply? Also, I gotta ask about the "Speaks: no reply" response on your profile.. it's a pet peeve of mine..

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i guess I was mis informing people there sorry, Of cource i will reply on public forum, and private, as to why no ans to speaks, IDK I guess i forgot, but I speak ENGLISH, and understand spanish.

MIKee

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I am anti-BUSH   ever since the so called war in Iraq, and I updated my profile to state I speak english, and a lil espanol   lol, well I am off g'night be well, stay safe, and God Bless

MIKee

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Ok, let's be honest here with our first reactions.  This is a day I'll never forget.  This is a day that changed my life forever.

I was at work and we were watching a tv in one of our attorneys offices.  My first reaction was Oh My God! shock, fear tears and the thought of all the innocent lives that were just taken away.  My second thought was to go home and just hold my daughter and 3 grandchildren. and never let go.  It made me realize that you never know when you will take your last breath here on this earth.  

You asked for first reactions not for reactions that came at a later date 

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a co-worker came in and announced that terrorists had flown two planes into the WTC and one building had collapsed. Everyone was shocked and confused, and we scrambled to find a radio to listen for more news.

Later I went to give a class, and we spent the hour listenign to the radio until the principal announced that everyone should go to the auditorium to watch a televised report.

I was sickened by what I saw and heard.

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I was stunned and shocked. I was amazed at what the supposed leaders were doing; running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Bush was off running around the country and hiding in a hole in the ground. I guess someone told him the sky was falling. I wondered where all of the military jets were that were supposed to be guarding our country? Was the best we could do was sending up two jets in the WRONG DIRECTION?

I saw him sit there in the classroom after he was told of the attacks, and I said to myself; there is something wrong here. A nation being attacked warrants instant reaction and bold moves, not sitting there like a rock and then running like a rat into a hole.

When I heard he was letting the Bin Laden family fly out without questions and then automatically attacking Iraq, I knew it was a con job from start to finish of some kind.

The evidence has all been destroyed on Bushes orders, so we will have to wait for those who were directly involved to come forward someday, about twenty years or longer from now, if any of them are allowed to live to tell about it.

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I cannot believe you people are here!  My brother told me there were others, but I could not believe it!  I feel like someone who has seen an UFO and is afraid to tell anyone.

My first reaction, truthfully, was, "that bastard, Bush, probably had his Saudi friends do this, so he can look like a hero and get everyone to line up behind him.  Everyone hates him right now and he needs public sentiment to turn in his favor."   My spouse warned me not to say anything outside the house, that I could get into trouble.  I reminded him that this was STILL America and I would say anything I damn well pleased. 

My brother and I debated it over the years, but I never discussed it with anyone else.  YES YES YES!  I believe with all my heart, Bush/Cheney was behind the towers collapsing, the entire episode; to get richer, to get war in Iraq, to get the middle east inflamed.  I have been saying for years that Bush/Cheney should be tried and executed for treason against humanity and nature.  Rumsfeld and Rice should be tried for tried for treason.   To hell with charging Bush with impeachment, that is a slap on the wrist.  He needs to stand before a firing squad and admit his sins, then immediately pay for them with his own worthless smarmy life.

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We were living in Belgium at the time, so at 8:46, when the first plane hit, it was 2:46 in the afternoon our time. 

Two major ironies about that day-I had a fantastic day at school (I was in eighth grade in a new school) and my mother, who usually watched the Today Show on AFN (Armed Forces Network), didn't touch the television that day. 

It wasn't until after 5:00 that we got the first hints that something terrible had happened.  Everyone else was upstairs, and I was doing my math homework in the living room.  It was time for Jeopardy to be on, and I figured "Hey, since everyone's in a good mood, maybe I won't get in trouble for watching TV and doing homework at the same time."  So I turned it on.

I saw a huge dust cloud over the New York skyline.  I didn't know what was going on.  I thought a had gone off or something, and this idea was only confirmed by the fact that a reporter was saying that there was a possible in a nearby school. 

Dad came downstairs, and saw me watching TV.  He started telling me to get back to work, but I interupted him to say, "Something's happened in New York."  Mom came down soon after, and together we watched the footage of the planes hitting the towers.  I will never forget my father's reaction when they showed a view of the Empire State Building with the dust cloud behind it.  He jumped out of his chair and yelled, "They're gone!"

I was numbed by what I saw, and I don't think the feeling left me until the memorial service broadcast from D.C. that Friday.  We were watching it, and it suddenly hit me exactly what had happened.  I looked at Dad, and he patted his leg.  I went over to him, buried my head in his leg, and, for the first time since that Tuesday, I cried.

I live in St.Albans, a town 20 miles north of London. That day I was off on holiday to Eastbourne on the south coast. The train journey and taxi to where I stay takes about 3 hours in all. I checked in at the hotel, started to walk through the lounge to the lift and noticed a crowd looking at the TV. It was showing the pictures, not live, of the planes and the towers falling. I could hardly believe what I was seeing.

I don't think we in England have got into conspiracy stories about 9/11, we've taken it as true, just become cynical about Bush's actions since and Blair being his poodle, but reading this thread  has convinced me there was something fishy about the fall of the Twin Towers - I hadn't realised there was a third one that fell. I take it that was empty of people?

I have just joined Care2 but can see it will be most illuminating to read the various threads.

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It was a beautiful Tuesday morning here in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

I turned on CNN as usual to watch with my morning coffee. Then came the newsbreak that a plane had hit one of the buildings of the World Trade Center.

I went through my head very quickly to go over all the people I knew and could any of them possibly be in the World Trade Towers that morning. My brother and his family live in New York but I couldn't imagine any of them would have buisness to do in the World trade Towers.

They showed it live from then on. I felt stunned and very confused. How could this happen? I wondered. But I knew what had just happened was momentous!

I didn't know what to do. Should I go to work???

I decided to go to work and on my way to my office I saw other government office workers driving out of their parking lots. It felt very errie at that point and I felt scared but I continued to work because if I don't show up at all I would be charged vacation leave.

When I got to my building everyone was going home but I had to go up to my office and show my face not to be charged vacation leave for the day.

When I got up there my supervisor was still there with the T.V. on. I saw the 2nd plane hit the World Trade Towers. Then I instantly knew it was no accident! I felt utterly shocked that this could happen in America!

I have to admit, I was very, very gullible in that moment and believed that we had been attacked by terrorists on our own soil. CNN said America is under attack! I believed everything they said and wonered what next???

I was scared and drove to my mother's house. The people on the radio said this is a time to be with loved ones.

I knew that huge numbers of people must have died as a result but nothing was said about fatalies or even refered to the fact that people died! I felt that the country was in shock and needed to be in denial about death at that moment. I wondered when they would start talking about fatalities.

I know this thread is about people's first reaction but I do need to add that I now am convinced otherwise!

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i live in southern california and a friend in northern california called me before 7:30 am and said you'd better turn on the tv and see what's happening.

i got out of bed, walked to my living room, and turned on the set. as i watched the events unfold and then saw the second jet crash into the building, i heard a small voice from my innermost being say: bush is behind this.

in my heart of hearts, i know this guy and his homies engineered this for several reasons but foremost to take attention away from the coup he had just staged to take over this country as its new dictator.

bush is the usa's number one terrorist as well as for many other countries.

i was born and raised in nebraska, and as a citizen of this country, i learned early not to trust the government.

Whe i got to work i went immediately to the TV...when the plane struck and then it was reported it struck on the Cantor floors, i knew i lost friends.

Having lived in NY for most of the 90's i would frequent Moran's most friday nights in the summer.

All i could think of was who among them are no longer living?

I used to take the Path train into the city from Hoboken....i did not take the WTC express...but i wondered how many of those faces were gone.

I made frantic phone calls...to no avail. My friends, friends of friends were gone. I don't think i'll ever recover from it.

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Early that morning I received a call from my neighbor saying "We've been attacked!".  My absolute first thought was that this was the doing of Bush as he was known to have stolen the election through his brother Jeb's connections in Florida, and people were frustrated and beginning to examine how this could happen.  He could not afford any close scrutiny as it could interfere with their plans, which we did not know the full extent of then.  

So far nothing has changed my mind.  He has crumbled the economy, leaving a debt that will take our children and their children, ad infinitem, forever to repay.  He has  stolen our children and placed them in grave danger, if they even survive. None should have perished for his cause.  When he addressed a fund-raiser dinner as "My constituents, the Haves and the Have-Mores..." that was the end of hope for me. 

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On that day I had awoke from a nap and turned on the tv and saw the horror. At first I just thought it was just one plane. But then it proceeded to show everything else that had happened while I was asleep. My first thought was, "omg i'm going to throw up." Second thing was we are going to war.

I called my husband at work to make sure he was watching this and then my mom. I was so scared I went and got my daughter at school and went to my parents house. I was crying and so scared. All I could think was that this was only the beginning and was we prepared to deal with this.

For days I could do nothing but watch it on tv and wonder when it would happen again. Not long after my brother in-law joined the military. He has been to Iraq once already. He came home with cancer and to this day he is batteling for his life. My husband is also military and he has been to Iraq and soon he will be in Afghanistan for 15 months. It is so hard.

Just like many others, that day is everyday in our lives. A constant memory of what a pour pathetic president we have running our country. Sorry if I offend anyone.

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 Here's my story of how it went down for me on 09-11-01:

I worked at a curtain factory, also known as a sweat shop, and, everyday as I folded curtains to an exact size to fit their packaging, I listened to a portable radio. I was listening to some rock song on 94HJY when, in the middle of my song, the news came on. I hate the news so I immediately started changing channels but I couldn't find any music, just news, so I started listening and as I listened I dropped my curtains all over the floor, backed up from my table and stood there dumbfounded. A plane had flown into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York!! I was shocked but they said it was an accident so, after a few minutes, I gathered up my nerves, told everyone what I heard, listened as everyone put their radios on and went back to folding.

A few minutes later, as the news anchor was saying something, he paused and screamed into my ear that another plane has hit the other tower of the World Trade Center in New York!! He immediately reported that it was obvious that this plane ACCELERATED into the tower!!! I took my headphones off, looked around and saw that the whole factory, including our boss was just standing around staring at their respective radios.

Later, I learned that my supervisor's son worked at the World Trade Center. We all prayed for her son as she didn't hear from him for three weeks! It turned out that he was late and, as he was walking under the canopy that leads to the front entrance, he heard and felt things hitting the top of the canopy so he looked up towards the tower above him and saw nothing but a ball of flames and proceeded to run away. He was so lucky he was late to work. Lemmee just add that he was NEVER late to work!

Anyway, so I got outa work at 3:30pm. Up to that point my brain didn't comprehend that this was really happening. I picked up my 7 year old daughter from school and practically ran home. When I got there, my roommate was glued to the TV. What I saw I just couldn't believe was real! It looked like a movie!

They were replaying the whole situation once again, including flight 93 and the flight that hit the Pentagon. I didn't even realize my 7 year old daughter was watching this, too. I was so in shock that it didn't even occur to me. She came and sat in my lap and asked me, 'Mommy, what movie are you watching?'. I dunno why but at that moment reality hit me like a mac truck and I burst into tears.

How do you tell a 7 year old who you told that the world is a beautiful place full of wonderful people that someone purposely killed thousands of innocent Americans? I was completely heartbroken that my innocent daughter was about to lose her innocence right then and there cuz I will never lie to my daughter. I told her what happened from beginning to end.

For months, I dealt with her having nightmares and not being able to sleep alone in her own bed. She was terrified daily that someone was gonna blow up mommy's workplace and would cry everyday when I'd leave for work. It was so hard on me emotionally to see my baby so scared. She was affected by this more than me.

What warmed my heart was Fall River, where I lived at the time, had a candlelight vigil planned and they had a humungous American flag that the Fall River Fire Dept. was going to carry. They needed children to walk underneath the flag carrying flashlights pointed towards the sky to light up the flag for the planes and helicopters to see the flag from the sky and my daughter was adament about being one of those children. I was scared that I would lose her but she told me 'Mommy, I want to do this for the people who are dead, now.'. I will never forget those words and the look on her little cherub face. I was so proud to be her mother right then that I couldn't bring myself to tell her no.

What hurts my heart is that people forget so easily. When 9-11 first happened there wasn't a house anywhere that didn't have an American flag on their porch or in their window and 'United We Stand' was written everywhere you looked but, now, I am lucky to see any of that, anymore, and it breaks my heart!

I have a sign on my front door, my back door and I have a red, white and blue bow on my window in my room attached to screen on the outside of my window. I pray for the families of all the people that died that day, that they find peace and happiness to the best of their ability. And I'm left to wonder why those great people were taken and I get to live.

Ya know, it's not even their deaths that I feel terrible about. It's basicly their fear and pain that they experienced before they died that makes me cry.

This is a nice site. I'm not so sure about the conspiracy theories going around but I have an open mind and will listen to any information given to me. Thanks for inviting me to this group! Have a good tomorrow!!

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hey guys, i am new to the group and would just like to say hi!

i remember the day of 9/11 very clear as i am sure that most of us do.  i was still in high school at the time and i got to school to hear people in the smoking area talk about it and how a plane hit the trade centre,  i could not believe my ears, to think that someone would have done that was just unthinkable, especially close to home, even tho I am a canadian, it was like it happened here.  when i first heard about it and that they said that it was terrorists that did somehting like this, my first thought was that this is the governments way of starting a war, it had been a long time since there was a huge war that people talked about and demanded, and well this was their chance to get the people of America to stand behind them in whatever they had to do.  And i mean, they had a lot of people fooled about it, and its hard to get out of ur way of thinkin that the government would do something to its own people.  but when that does finally sink in and you look back at history and what has gone on, its not so surprising anymore.  so yeah, that was my first thought.  i dont think that i ever believed the story that they came up with, and especially not  now after i have done extensive research into all of this, there is no way.

light and love to all

Lacey

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