[jims69camaro]

skorpion: agreed.

MyLittlePony: i know you will never forget. it's much different when
you know someone that was there - and the sinking feeling you had when
you thought that somehow they wouldn't be making it out.

i didn't answer the question. i was at work, Microwarehouse, and i
remember several people gathering in front of the TVs in the break
room, which i could see from my desk. i drink several cups of coffee
daily, and noticing my cup was empty i made the excuse to fill it, but i
really wanted to see what was attracting so many people to the TVs. i
thought maybe Jerry had some interesting guests on or something.

so, as i am filling my cup, adding sugar, etc., i overhear the TV announcer
say that they thought it was a twin engine plane, a pilot error, etc. i asked
someone who was standing there what was going on, and they said that
the newsguy didn't want to say it was terrorists, but that's what was
being rumored. i went back to my desk and turned on all of the news
alerts i could find: MSN sends out news briefs for important stuff, new
headlines, things that will really have an impact. CNN does the same thing,
which is what i was interested in finding out. i had just made it to both
sites and got registered when the screens froze. i found out later that
so many people had jumped on their sites that they couldn't handle the
traffic and had to shut down. but the alerts kept coming. about one
every two minutes or so. that's when i heard people in the break room
start to cry - loud sobbing and screams of incredulity. i knew something
major had happened and that's when the news alert came over: a second
plane had hit the other tower. it was no longer a rumor, the newsguys
were calling it a terrorist attack. i got ahold of a live newsfeed on the
computer so i didn't have to add to the population in the breakroom.
people started to gather around my desk, as well. then the towers
started to fall. it's a blur after that. the managers had decided to shut us
down, whether it was because no one was working anyway or if they had
true concern about our kids in school and loved ones at work - not to
mention that just about everyone knew someone who worked in the
towers - so they sent us home. i spent the rest of the day watching the
news. it probably wasn't a good thing, because they kept showing it over
and over again, the whole timeline from the start of it - the guys in the
street with the video camera - until the seocnd tower had fallen. i felt
anger, hatred and a murderous rage well up inside me. that was followed
by a depression - knowing that there wasn't a single thing i could do to
help out other than donate blood.

no, i will never forget. and whoever is president come january, they had
better bring me osama's head.