Where were you when the towers fell?

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richie
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18 Oct 2014, 3:48 pm

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I was in the garden planting lettuce. When I came in the house, my roommate said, "Look at this!", and there it was on TV. Spent the rest of the day watching the clips of the falling towers over and over, though they did not play it in subsequent days, as I began to wonder how two buildings could come down at free-fall speed into their own footprint from being hit by planes. I timed it and did the math. It really bothered me. It still does.


Building #7 came down many hours later and it looked like a controlled demolition.


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18 Oct 2014, 6:30 pm

I was in bed asleep. When I woke up my mom told me about it and all I did that day was watch the news. Spent many years after that arguing with trolls about it lol.


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18 Oct 2014, 11:46 pm

I was volunteering at HIV Edmonton as a receptionist. (Was a Fine Options placement turned volunteer gig. Always have car insurance kids!) All I did was data entry and make coffee. Never answered a phone. They still called me the receptionist anyway.

The office coffee room had a 13" colour CRT TV, so many people crying and freaking out watching it all unfold on a tiny little tv sitting ontop of the fridge. I overloaded and took off home and watched it all go down on the news.


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