On September 11, 2001 I had been in Phoenix, Arizona for about a week. I went there to manage the branch office for the company I worked for. I would end up staying there a year, returning home to Dallas in September of 2002.

That Tuesday morning I was headed down I-17 toward my office just off Indian School Road. I did not have my radio on, which was unusual for me, and I was planning my day in my mind; I was unaware of what was happening in New York City.

I received a call on my cell phone from my Field supervisor. He asked me if I was listening to the radio. I told him no and asked why.

“We’re under attack”, he said.

“Who’s under attack?” I asked him.

He told me what had happened. I was stunned, as I think most everyone was. I immediately exited the freeway and turned around and went back to the house, and turned on the TV. I tuned in just in time to see the second airplane slam into the South Tower. I called the office and told my assistant to close the place down and tell everyone in the field to go home.

The most eerie thing I remember about that day was silence above Sky Harbor Airport. There was not a plane in the sky in a sky that is normally filled with planes. It seemed like the end of the world.

I can’t say anything that has not been said already. I was stunned for several days. My shock turned to anger when I was watching the scroll at the bottom of the TV screen. They were listing the passengers on one of the planes that flew into the towers. A name would scroll by and the age might be 54, then another person, age 37, etc. Then a girl’s name went by. I don’t remember the name but the age was 4 years. One of my granddaughters was 3 at the time.

I’ve never hated anything in this world like I hated the people who were responsible for that heinous act. I still hate them and will not stop hating them, not in this life.

The bravery and dedication of the New York Police and Firefighters will never be forgotten. They represent the very best this country has to offer.

We are all new Yorkers on this day.

Jack Dallas

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Never forget

It would be good for people to remember the solidarity of the world in the few months following that dreadful day.

I doubt any sober American will ever forget what they were doing or who they were with when it all occured.

Except for your ilk who would sell America short in a heartbeat.If Obie told you to.

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Quite a few, though, seem to have conveniently forgotten what happen since then.

Check out Amy Goodman's Democracy Now broadcast this morning. She featured one of the men who volunteered to work at Gound Zero after the attack. If you do, I think you'll learn something about how they, ". . . will never be forgotten."

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“We’re under attack”, he said.

“Who’s under attack?” I asked him.

He told me what had happened. I was stunned, as I think most everyone was. I immediately exited the freeway and turned around and went back to the house, and turned on the TV. I tuned in just in time to see the second airplane slam into the South Tower.

No one was officially reporting that we were "under attack" until after the second plane hit the towers. Only then was it confirmed without a doubt, and announced. When the first plane hit, it was initially thought to be a horrible accident.

(I have no interest in pursuing this any further with you, just wanted to jump on any opportunity to call you a LIAR!)

Yes, they have. The GOP in particular have even begun to attack the president for trying to finally finish what we started in Afghanistan.

Unfortunantly I fear the left is trying to pressure him into abandoning what was started there also. If we do that there will never be peace on earth again.

eom

Unless we kill all of the Afghans there will never be "peace on Earth again"? That is, of course, what it will take to make them agree to be a part of our empire.

BTW: When in the long history of mankind has there ever been "peace on Earth"?

while you were in Phoenix. I had just got back to my hotel room from a late dinner and was watching CNN when the first plane hit. I called my wife, woke her up back in Phoenix. Asked her to turn on the TV. We had just started to talk about it when the second plane hit.

For almost a half hour, we sat there on the phone with nothing to say.

that we were under attack well before it was officially declared. Not EVERYBODY has to have someone like Obama tell them what to think and when to think it and why to think it. But then I guess that some people, like you, are exceptionally stupid.

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“We’re under attack”, he said.

“Who’s under attack?” I asked him.

He told me what had happened. I was stunned, as I think most everyone was. I immediately exited the freeway and turned around and went back to the house, and turned on the TV. I tuned in just in time to see the second airplane slam into the South Tower.

No one was officially reporting that we were "under attack" until after the second plane hit the towers. Only then was it confirmed without a doubt, and announced. When the first plane hit, it was initially thought to be a horrible accident.

(I have no interest in pursuing this any further with you, just wanted to jump on any opportunity to call you a LIAR!)

PSYCHO BROAD ON BOARD!^^

Oh, yawn.

another_liberal wrote the following post at 09/11/2009 8:38 PM: Quite a few, though, seem to have conveniently forgotten what happen since then.

Yes you have, you and the rest of your Liberal friends. Why is that?

Jack

I'll always link that event with Phoenix, just as I will always remember the JFK assassination with the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine.

I think the most awesome thing was that there were no planes in the air over Phoenix (you know how busy that airport is). Everywhere I went for the next few days, people were just looking up and talking about the lack of planes in the sky, and how strange it was.

Jack