Re: 911:: Sept 11

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 8/11/02 10:04:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

jbart1@... writes:

> How do members of our big family here feel we should conduct ourselves on

> the list on Sept 11?

Is this for your information, or are you conducting a study for the National

(Toilet-rag) Enquirer?

Raffa

Supv. Dispatcher, FDNY

www.FDNewYork.com

[Guest guest]

I know that is a hard day for everyone. Its hard remembering where you were

and what you were doing while so many families and lives were being changed

and even lost. I think it would be serve the list better maybe if everyone

could talk about their feelings and what they were feeling last year even.

Maybe someone could start a thread and we could all tell our feelings of the

event and how we feel about all those who gave their lives serving.

Just my opinion!

Roxann

Arlington, TX

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In a message dated 8/11/02 9:05:05 PM Central Daylight Time,

jbart1@... writes:

> As we draw nearer to this date, I find the media over here is starting to

> pay attention to what will happen on Sept 11, particularly in the U.S.A. I

> read in one of our Sunday papers here how an idea from a young boy over

> here

> passed onto NYC, about spreading red rose petals in the vicinity of ground

> zero, will be done. I am sure many outside the States and also within,

> will

> be curious as to the personal views on how the world and very particularly

> the citizens of the U.S.A., should or will handle the 24 hour period

> 9/11/02

> It will be a date that most with the ability of reason, will remember

> exactly what they were doing at the dreaded time, like at JFK's

> assassination, mans first step on the moon etc. Is that date also the 911

> remembrance day? Do people associated with the 911 industry feel that any

> remembrance for this industry should be moved, or has it all ready

> happened?

>

>

so....where are you taking this???

jamie in iowa

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In a message dated 8/11/2002 7:04:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,

jbart1@... writes:

>

> How do members of our big family here feel we should conduct ourselves on

> the list on Sept 11? May be a " no post period " for 12 or 24 hours in

> respect of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. To

> show

> how we will be totally focused on thinking about that terrible tragedy that

> has forever changed how our little planet Earth acts.

>

Is this for real or someone else's thesis?

[Guest guest]

I was working that day. We (myself and a radio tech) were moving and wiring

equipment between calls. We had the TV on MSNBC. The tech (a retired fire

captain and a friend off mine) stuck his head up and was looking for a tool.

I heard him say " What is that. " I crawled out and started watching the

television also. Other people (admin. and all) started drifting into the

center (They knew we usually run the news channel during my shift). We

watched the second plane fly into the towers. I remember feeling disbelief

then cold horror. The police Chief came in and watched with us for a few

minutes. He then left and met with the patrol Lt. and started bringing in

extra people. Funny thing was the radios and the phones were silent. Everyone

was glued to the news. Eerie, no MV stops nothing. The occasional phone call

with a real emergency, or one of ours asking if he or she was needed in. The

fire Chief put on an extra crew. We hear of the third and forth planes. We

should be doing something here but what. The towers fall and my Town is still

quiet. I stayed after shift and made sure that my evening people were OK with

the days events and could work. I called the midnight person when he got in

and went through the same drill. I realized during those moments during that

day that the way we do business had just changed, forever. Over the next days

and weeks the call volume increased (Arabs in cars and white powder). We are

developing an alternate dispatch site just in case. We have added and are

adding more remote cameras to the outside and sensitive areas of the

building. The list goes on. We go on.

Allan Young

Peace and may we always bring them home safely

Hooksett NH police fire and rescue

[Guest guest]

> I know that is a hard day for everyone. Its hard remembering where you were

> and what you were doing while so many families and lives were being changed

> and even lost. I think it would be serve the list better maybe if everyone

> could talk about their feelings and what they were feeling last year even.

> Maybe someone could start a thread and we could all tell our feelings of the

> event and how we feel about all those who gave their lives serving.

>

I actually just got off a flight in Philly and was driving to Alantic City. I

didnt

know what was going on until we were stopped in the casino and our bags

searched. This was my first time there because I usually just go to Vegas, so

I thought it was normal for them to look through backpacks and purses. So, I

asked them when they started searching bags....thats when he told me what

happened. The only thing I could think of was when the bomber hit the

Empire State Building and how that stood. I didnt believe anyone at first until

we finally got to our room at noon. It was actually pretty dead in the casino

for

the best part of that day.

Earl Benway

Colchester (Vermont) Police Communications

[Guest guest]

That's exactly what I thought when I read the post. DITTO.

lou Pritchard

Morro Bay PD CA

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 8/14/02 3:05:16 AM Mountain Daylight Time,

snowwhite2165@... writes:

<< FBI Audit of NCIC............

>>

ohhhhh let us know how it goes and what all they look for.. we have NOT

be audited in years and just waiting for the day to come!

Kathy

[Guest guest]

Here's my interesting note re:Sept 11---My mom was

looking through some of my stuff about a week or so

after and she said, " Honey, did you know that you

enlisted on Sept 11, 1996? " So, I celebrated my 5th

anniversary in the military by escorting F-16 weapons

and ammo and basically spending the whole day in a

daze.

=====

Kim

I make a difference

Tulsa, OK

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[Guest guest]

<<<Its hard remembering where you were and what you were doing while so many

families and lives were being changed and even lost.>>>

I had worked graves the night before at my old job and held over (something

new and different at the old not - not), got home and went to sleep about 5am

ish. I woke up about 2:00 p.m. and had a message waiting from the job I am

now happily at to call. I was shaking when I called -- hadn't done anything

but roll over and call -- no coffee, no radio, no tv. My now training Sgt.

made my conditional offer to me and I was so excited because I had wanted

this job for so long. I didn't understand why he was so distance, so weird

-- was he sorry he made the offer? I finally asked him what was wrong and he

asked me what was wrong with me. I told him well I just work up after

working a 12-1/2 hour graveyard shift and I'm still a little sleepy.

Oh.....he told me to turn on the TV -- he wouldn't say why and all I could

think of was how people sounded when JFK was shot. I asked him if

everything was ok and he said no, the whole east coast was under attack and

to turn on the TV. Someone in the office with him asked what was wrong with

me that I didn't know and I heard him explain that I had just woken up cause

I work(ed) graves -- so at least people at my (now) job understood what was

going on. He told me briefly what happened, I got to the TV and was beyond

shocked. I have family in New York, my best friend from college's husband

worked in one of the towers .....she got through to me later on that night

with news that for some reason for just about the first time in his life and

25 years of marriage both he and she overslept and their kids didn't wake

them. Oversleeping and missing his bus saved his life.

I called into my (old) job to see if they needed help and at that point they

said they were ok. It wasn't until I went back on the 14th we went on

mandatory 12's with all days off canceled until the then Captain said we were

going back on 4/10's because if we stayed on 12's we would be too tired when

the next attack came.

I called the job I had the conditional offer from and they didn't need any

help either -- talk about feeling useless.