9/11 remembrance. 14 years tomorrow

[DaveTN]

This story has been here before, but I’m going to share this story published today.

Lt. Heather Penney and Col. Marc Sasseville deserve to have this story told. Thankfully they didn’t have to complete their mission, but they were prepared to do the unthinkable to protect “The People”.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/ar-AAebKjD?ocid=spartandhp

[Sam1]

We were about to be released from work when it happened, everyone was late watching it on TV, when we got out there the CO said we were probably going to war.  (not even been back a year from Macedonia/Bosnia)  Knowing the stuff was about to go down, we went out to get hammered.  By the time we got back a few hours later, they already had another company move their tanks out to the gates and block the road.  If anyone wanted to drive in, they had to go through a 70 ton tank and a million MP's patrolling the perimeter.

 

The next morning we were foaming at the mouth, within a couple of weeks we were begging to be deployed to Afghanistan... Months later they said "hey let's attack Iraq instead", orders came down for deployment so I said have fun, I'm going to school instead.  Many others followed because the political motives were so obvious it was discouraging.  We would have went to Afghanistan in a heartbeat, Iraq over politics... Not as interested.

[Erik88]

This is one of my only positive memories from that day.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OCgMPX2mE&app=desktop

 

 

I was in the 7th grade at the time when one of the teachers from another class entered the room and told us what was happening. I was too young to fully grasp the impact.

[Oh Shoot]

This is one of my only positive memories from that day.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OCgMPX2mE&app=desktop

 

Just to be accurate, Dubya's bullhorn address was three days later.

 

- OS

[TNWNGR]

This story has been here before, but I’m going to share this story published today.

Lt. Heather Penney and Col. Marc Sasseville deserve to have this story told. Thankfully they didn’t have to complete their mission, but they were prepared to do the unthinkable to protect “The People”.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f-16-pilot-was-ready-to-give-her-life-on-sept-11/ar-AAebKjD?ocid=spartandhp

 

I'd read bits of this story before but never with this detail, oddly there's no doubt in my mind that both pilots would have done what they set out to do...

[Erik88]

Just to be accurate, Dubya's bullhorn address was three days later.

 

- OS

 

I realized that as I was typing. Still a powerful moment.

[fourteentwo]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13617860

Nice documentary there about the world series first pitch by the President in 2001, Yankees' baseball the days after 9/11 and what it meant to the world.

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[ou812]

I was at the FAA academy in Oklahoma City.  We were on break between classes.  A girl from a class ahead of me came walking down the hall asking if we heard about the plane that hit the towers.  The wife and I were just in the towers a month before.  So we thought it was a small aircraft that hit it.  Little did we know.  We were sent home within the hour.   I was riding with as a passenger with the person who I car pooled with. We hit every red light on the way back to the apartments.  I can still remember the look on the faces of every person who was stopped at the red lights beside us.  Most looked like they were reliving the OKC bombing.  We returned to class the next morning, almost all of us were ex military.  On our breaks we would usually go outside to warm up.  We all noticed the eerier sound of silence.  Being next to to the OKC airport and tinker we always had some type aircraft flying over ahead.  Someone came through through within a few days took our names, which branch of service we served, and was told that there was a chance we would be call back in there was a shortage of military air traffic controllers   (they did recall a few of the permanent staff at the academy who had been out of the military for years)