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Where were you when.............?

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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.

    Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.

    The Brad

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      #18

      I was in a shopping mall in Honolulu when I first saw the Thriller video.

      Gulf War 1 - I was home watching Peter Jennings talk about the B52s dropping bombs. A friend was one of the B52 pilots.

      9/11 I was at work in Reston, the lady who had the office next to mine was at a funeral in Arlington Cemetery. She called to say we were under attack because she saw the plane (she thought it was a missile) hit the Pentagon.

      JFK, in school the nuns were going crazy crying.

      When Apollo 10 got the 'Go for TLI' I was watching at home in Boston, same for Neil Armstrong's first step.

      @LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:

      F15s flying in circles

      Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.

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      • KlausK Online
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        I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Brutus murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.

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        • KlausK Klaus

          I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Brutus murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.

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          @Klaus said in Where were you when.............?:

          I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Brutus murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.

          The area looks a bit different today.

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          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

            As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.

            Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.

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            @LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:

            As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.

            Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.

            Oh I bet. Before I moved to MN I lived near Bailey's Crossroads in a tall building. Let's just say I've mapped the flight path of the one that hit the Pentagon, and it would've been about 500 feet up and about a 1/2 mile from my balcony that day. Would've been very weird to hear it, see it, and then feel it since it's within "shaking" distance of the Pentagon impact. But... I was at college.

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            • CopperC Copper

              I was in a shopping mall in Honolulu when I first saw the Thriller video.

              Gulf War 1 - I was home watching Peter Jennings talk about the B52s dropping bombs. A friend was one of the B52 pilots.

              9/11 I was at work in Reston, the lady who had the office next to mine was at a funeral in Arlington Cemetery. She called to say we were under attack because she saw the plane (she thought it was a missile) hit the Pentagon.

              JFK, in school the nuns were going crazy crying.

              When Apollo 10 got the 'Go for TLI' I was watching at home in Boston, same for Neil Armstrong's first step.

              @LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:

              F15s flying in circles

              Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.

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              @Copper said in Where were you when.............?:

              Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.

              I remember the mysterious plane… I also remember “attacks” at Press buildings in DC, “Gunfire” ay the Washington Monument, and warnings about poisoned water supplies. Something that gets lost in the horror and tragedy of that day was how badly our media failed on that day.

              The Brad

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              • 89th8 Offline
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                Don't forget the White House on fire.

                Oh wait... turned out the camera angle was just showing smoke "behind" the white house (from the Pentagon).

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                  Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.

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                  I was only joking

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                  • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                    Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.

                    image.png

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                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Where were you when.............?:

                    Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.

                    image.png

                    alt text

                    The Brad

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                      And I remember where I was on 8/23/11…

                      The Brad

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                      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                        And I remember where I was on 8/23/11…

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                        @LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:

                        And I remember where I was on 8/23/11…

                        I was 4,000 feet above Harper's Ferry, instructing.

                        Everyone felt it except us.

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                          My brother was a few hundred yards from the epicenter of that Virginia earthquake. At the time he was working a civil engineering job. Anyway, he described it as a very weird feeling, mostly like a rumble of thunder or a train but under the ground passing by.

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                            I remember when the earthquake hit Japan that damage the Fukushima nuclear plant. A friend was on a plane that landed in Tokyo at the EXACT time the earthquake started. They ended up sitting on the plane for about six hours before they were able to get off.

                            I flew into Tokyo (Narita airport) the next day from BKK. Very limited flights in/out of the airport. Airport was running on emergency power. I remember how hot it was in the airport because no A/C.

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