 | 11th September| OFF-Topic / Misc. Discuss 11th September in the Current forums; I was on my way to dentist when I first heard about it. Tragic...the event and the dentist visit.
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09-12-2005, 08:31 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Country:  | I was on my way to dentist when I first heard about it. Tragic...the event and the dentist visit.
Never forget. 
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | 
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09-12-2005, 10:40 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Adelaide
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Country:  | I'll never forget. I was in the Army at the time and we were doing bayonet training that morning. I can tell you there were some pretty aggressive and mad Diggers that day!
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09-13-2005, 03:41 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,845
Country:  | I can believe that! | |
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09-13-2005, 11:51 AM
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#19 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
Posts: 29,431
Country:  | I remember I was at the Hanger preflighting an aircraft to go fly when our commander came and said all flights were canceled. We had a formation and they told us all about it. After they would not let us leave the Hanger except to go in groups of 5 to the Chow Hall to eat and come back. After about 8 hours of sitting in the hanger they let us go home but we had to pack all our bags and be ready to leave on a 6 hour notice. We were banned from going off post onto the German Economy for about 3 days unless you lived off post (I was not married yet and lived in the barracks). I remember I was out of cigarettes and the shopette and PX were closed so me and a friend snuck off and drove his car down to a local German bar to buy some cigs and I remember it being on TV there and we were in full combat uniform at the time. A old German lady stood up with a tear in her eye and hugged both me and my friend. It was a terrible night.
__________________  US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | 
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09-13-2005, 12:01 PM
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#20 | | He who does not skim
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Posts: 8,957
Country:  | I was at sea. The news was followed by shock and then non-stop combat readiness drills. We were just waiting to be ordered to a US task group somewhere. That came a bit later. | |
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09-13-2005, 12:45 PM
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#21 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
Posts: 29,431
Country: | Yeap they thought we were going to go and hit some one right away.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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09-13-2005, 01:18 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Culqualber
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| People like us were killed , people like me. I am not exactly a saint and I don't know if they were, but they were not surely guilty for the reason why they were killed.
A tribute for them, from Meat Loaf:
Heaven can wait
And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart
Will take me through the lonely night
Through the cold of the day
And I know
I know
Heaven can wait
And all the gods come down here just to sing for me
And the melody’s gonna make me fly
Without pain
Without fear
Give me all of your dreams
And let me go along on your way
Give me all of your prayers to sing
And I’ll turn the night into the skylight of day
I got a taste of paradise
I’m never gonna let it slip away
I got a taste of paradise
It’s all I really need to make me stay --
Just like a child again
Heaven can wait
And all I got is time until the end of time
I won’t look back
I won’t look back
Let the altars shine
And I know that I’ve been released
But I don’t know to where
And nobody’s gonna tell me know
And I don’t really care
No no no
I got a taste of paradise
That’s all I really need to make me stay
I got a taste of paradise
If I had it any sooner you know
You know I never would have run away from my home
Heaven can wait
And all I got is time until the end of time
I won’t look backr
I won’t look back
Let the altars shine
Heaven can wait
Heaven can wait
I won’t look back
I won’t look back
Let the altars shine
Let the altars shine
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be waken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | |
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09-13-2005, 01:20 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,845
Country: | I was skateboarding on a big marble place called stalin (the place in Prague, where the statue of Stalin staned until 1953)  
I remember my dad called me and told me: "...some crazies crashed into skycrapers in NY...". I ran to see the nearest TV (it was in some café) and was shocked and than went home - whole family was sitting next to the TV and those horrible things were screened there again and again... | |
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09-13-2005, 02:10 PM
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#24 | | "Shooter"
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
Posts: 12,486
Country:  | I was on the web in the morning when my sister sent me an AIM message and told me to turn on the news. I turned it just in time to see the second plane crash into the towers. I got angry, really angry. My wife and I watched in disbelief when the towers came down. When I got to work, it was a somber and quiet place. We watched the news on any available TV.
The one thing I really remember about that morning is that my son woke up in a really good mood, and I couldn't help but marvel at his innocence. He was about 4 months old at the time.
When I remodelled his bathroom that December, I left a couple of tributes and newspaper articles behind the medicine cabinet when I installed it. Someday, someone will find them. The first thing they will see is the big words "Never forget".
__________________  http://www.vg-photo.com Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda. | |
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09-13-2005, 03:23 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Country: | thats interesting | |
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09-14-2005, 10:17 AM
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#26 | | Konfused with a 'K'
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Turin, Italy
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Country:  | My dad done that with the london bombings, a few newspaper articles in a wall he was rebuilding.
__________________  with my one last gaping breath id apologise for bleeding on your shirt... | |
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09-16-2005, 02:40 PM
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#27 | | Der Crewchief
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
Posts: 29,431
Country: | Wow that will be somber when the are both found.
__________________ US Army Blackhawk Crewchief 2000-2006 Classic ww2aircraft.net quotes: fly boy said: "isn't that the first jet bomber? becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles" "wait what ok who made the b-2 crash come on people that messed up its a b-2" "ah yes the mistel those things are so annoying is games and in real life" | |
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