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September 11, 2006

Tribute to the Fallen !!

Never Forgotten in continum...here are some random comments from the web. These are touching, funny , but it shows the reality of what people still remember !!

    • "Was sitting in a bus station when friend got an SMS saying the towers & pentagon had been hit. "
    • "the CNN site going entirely text based that day"
    • "I was in... Polish Harry Potter chatroom and for about first five minutes I thought they are talking about a movie, or something"
    • "I knew he was not scheduled to be on a commercial airline, but I was still terrified. That day changed our lives forever"
    • "He didnt realise it WASN'T a hollywood film until he saw the newspaper headlines the next day" -A friend of a Hashish smoker in Amsterdam
    • "yahoo changed the headline & story to report that it was actually a passenger jet... and thats when we knew something very very big was happening."
    • "there was also a sense of bewilderment and the feeling of being lost, scared and lonely. "
    • "I will never forgot that day, b/c it touched my life even when I didn't know a single person in new york that day."
    • "It didn't really hit me that it was real until the second plane hit"
    • " went out to the living room and turned on the tv, and watched from that point on. "
    • "My wife came home from work crying because people were saying it was the "end of the world" comming."
    • "I believe I had a mini panic attack"
    • "To this day she remembers that on that one day there were no airplanes flying." -father describes what his 5yrs daughter remembers.
    • "got into school everyone silent"
    • "After about 20 minutes of utter disbelief I pinched myself on the arm very hard. I hoped that I was dreaming"
    • "I do remember seeing that Google page, though, trying to figure out what was going on."
    • "I turned up Stern, and listened to him until they evacuated our building at 11:30 AM "
    • " I initially thought it was just a large fire. "
    • "That night I had my first sociology class. Coincidentally the topic was about the psychology of suicide. It was a bleak day"
    • "We got nothing done that day. We all just sat in utter shock."
    • "I took a greyhound bus on september 11 5PM"
    • "My first class was physics, which we spent watching the news"
    • "I remember feeling sick to my stomach, not understanding what was happening or why"
    • "at the same time the 2nd  plane struck the WTC i had a car accident... SERIOUSLY"
    • " It just took me a couple of seconds to understand i was not going to go anywhere that day."
    • "Everyone just sort of pulled together"
    • "logged into my workstation, and saw an email from another Googler, saying that one world trade center had collapsed and asking if the Google NY office was alive."
    • "totally shock....am i watching Hollywood movie or real? "
    • "when I saw the towers on fire, I had the wind knocked out of me"
    • "..pass along the information, to all the crew onboard the USS WInston S Churchill"
    • "I was shocked. I never did find out who called me before that"
    • "At first i dident even know if it was real or not."
    • "As I drove to the conference, the Pentagon was hit"
    • "We heard a plane fly very low overhead – we both hugged each other"
    • "I then remember the next day phoning my family, just to talk to them"

Please leave you comments of your recollections and thoughts.

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