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<blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 332955" data-attributes="member: 4436"><p>I live on the West coast, so I was just getting out of bed when the first plane hit the WTC. I stumbled out of bed, did a bit of morning routine, got my wife up, then made my way out to the living room to feed our cat and turn on the news. I turned on the TV, and the anchor was reporting that a plane had hit the WTC, and that they had no further info at this time. They had a camera live at the site looking at the burning building - it was surreal.</p><p></p><p>I yelled to my wife that a plane had hit the WTC, turned back, and as she yelled "what?" saw the camera tilt back and follow the second plane directly into the tower.</p><p></p><p>I didn't say anything back.</p><p></p><p>She came out, and I managed, somewhat numbly, to tell her to watch the TV, they knew everything I did. We started trying to get through to various news websites, but nothing was accessible.</p><p></p><p>My wife panics easily. She was afraid that this was going to happen everywhere, and I had to take some time and calm her down a bit - I'm fairly well versed in the political structure of How Crap Like This Happens - and explain that while the WTC is a "good" target for terrorists, a small 2-floor building that counsels at-risk youth in a second-rate town probably would not be a primary target for a terrorist attack, at least not at this point. I then had to make the same point again for my work - slightly harder, considering I worked at the time for a major corporation, but the structure of the buildings on their campus made me feel like they weren't a major target either.</p><p></p><p>And then we had to go to work.</p><p></p><p>Work for me that day consisted of repeatedly checking any website that was relaying information - in my case, hardocp.com and arstechnica.com served as my primary newspoint. I was picking up what I could from my local NPR affiliate - listening as the Pentagon was hit, then the PA crash - and watching my work roommate freak out. He had been Special Forces in the Persian Gulf Skirmish, and apparently was suffering some serious PTSD. I tried to talk him through the worst of it. (For the record, my wife has a Masters in Psychology, and I do computer work, but I read most of her Masters-level books, and helped her with her papers, so I've got a fairly good understanding of what counselling is) He was vaccilating back and forth between wanting to find the bastards responsible and removing their spleens through various orifices, both existing and newly generated, and being totally unable to comprehend how somebody could do this.</p><p></p><p>Not too much work got done that day. Still, nobody was sent home.</p><p></p><p>Since then, I've been wracked by a major depressive episode, laid off, spent seven months unemployed, and started a new job about two weeks ago.</p><p></p><p>And celebrated my 3rd wedding anniversary on 7/11/2002.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vargo, post: 332955, member: 4436"] I live on the West coast, so I was just getting out of bed when the first plane hit the WTC. I stumbled out of bed, did a bit of morning routine, got my wife up, then made my way out to the living room to feed our cat and turn on the news. I turned on the TV, and the anchor was reporting that a plane had hit the WTC, and that they had no further info at this time. They had a camera live at the site looking at the burning building - it was surreal. I yelled to my wife that a plane had hit the WTC, turned back, and as she yelled "what?" saw the camera tilt back and follow the second plane directly into the tower. I didn't say anything back. She came out, and I managed, somewhat numbly, to tell her to watch the TV, they knew everything I did. We started trying to get through to various news websites, but nothing was accessible. My wife panics easily. She was afraid that this was going to happen everywhere, and I had to take some time and calm her down a bit - I'm fairly well versed in the political structure of How Crap Like This Happens - and explain that while the WTC is a "good" target for terrorists, a small 2-floor building that counsels at-risk youth in a second-rate town probably would not be a primary target for a terrorist attack, at least not at this point. I then had to make the same point again for my work - slightly harder, considering I worked at the time for a major corporation, but the structure of the buildings on their campus made me feel like they weren't a major target either. And then we had to go to work. Work for me that day consisted of repeatedly checking any website that was relaying information - in my case, hardocp.com and arstechnica.com served as my primary newspoint. I was picking up what I could from my local NPR affiliate - listening as the Pentagon was hit, then the PA crash - and watching my work roommate freak out. He had been Special Forces in the Persian Gulf Skirmish, and apparently was suffering some serious PTSD. I tried to talk him through the worst of it. (For the record, my wife has a Masters in Psychology, and I do computer work, but I read most of her Masters-level books, and helped her with her papers, so I've got a fairly good understanding of what counselling is) He was vaccilating back and forth between wanting to find the bastards responsible and removing their spleens through various orifices, both existing and newly generated, and being totally unable to comprehend how somebody could do this. Not too much work got done that day. Still, nobody was sent home. Since then, I've been wracked by a major depressive episode, laid off, spent seven months unemployed, and started a new job about two weeks ago. And celebrated my 3rd wedding anniversary on 7/11/2002. [/QUOTE]
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