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PTotD: We take a break from these job-related messages to reflect on 9/11.

Life has been tough lately. Relationships difficult. Friendships in fits and starts. But remembering how quickly they all can be taken from us helps me remember not to take them for granted.

6 years ago I woke up in SF to a call from my now-husband in Boston telling me he wouldn't be flying to Singapore after all. I turned on the TV to see the news. I went to the office where I listened to the radio alone until someone else arrived and told me we were sent home (my company only had 7 people). I knitted and watched the news all day alone in my apartment.

I never finished that sweater.

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10 months ago by devBear B.

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  • Geoff L. replied Sep 11th
    I watched the Pentagon burn from my office. The planes were hitting as we speak.
  • devBear B. replied Sep 11th
    Americans were coming together in solidarity. I felt really alone just there alone in my apartment stunned, watching the TV, with nowhere to go and noone to sit with or talk to.
  • devBear B. replied Sep 11th
    @geoffliving people so often don't think about the other planes - i knew someone who worked in the pentagon at that time but luckily they weren't there
  • Matt E. replied Sep 11th
    I was at my grandfathers house - we were in town for the funeral of my then girlfriend's father. The calling hours were that day.

    We slept till 11am - woke up when a friend called me to say that I should really turn on the TV. I called my sister who was in the city for college - turns out she was in the shower when the first one hit - so they hopped on the last train from Lower Manhattan and headed uptown.
  • Omar B. replied Sep 11th
    I was just in 7th grade.

    I remember exactly which seat I was sitting at on the table, and the cereal that I was eating (corn flakes w/extra sugar) when I first saw the towers burning. Of course back then I had little knowledge of the world outside the US, and I was extremely confused as to why someone would do that. It was surreal seeing the very same towers that I had looked at in a textbook the day before burning on my TV screen.
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    xen y. replied Sep 11th
    That is so sad with us humans. We don't take life and things aorund us serious until we have to or get hurt.

    It seems that we focus too much on ourselves and the wrong things.
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    xen y. replied Sep 11th
    @Geoff: This whole 9/11 episode is horrible and sad, but there is something that do not make sense. Even if Loose Change is rather extreme, it still brings a few valid points to the debate. As they say, there is no smoke without fire. Too bad the US government is trying to hide that fire at all cost.

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