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Today is the 7th anniversary of the most recent attacks from foreign sources on our soil. The 9/11 attacks on the Towers, a field in Pennsylvania and in Washington DC. Few of us will ever forget that day, or the days that followed. For many, that day is a painful reminder of family/friends lost forever at the hands of terrorists.

I remember being out with my wife on that morning - an early morning doctors appointment, with the television on in the reception room. I remember the initial report, then the next and the hours/days that followed seemed like a nightmare in real time. Travel was restricted, few were beyond suspicion. In some ways, we're still living this.

Where were you - and "Do you remember" this modern day nightmare?

I was at work. We heard it on the radio.

I was at work and the wife of one of the employees called with the news. My boss went into another room a brought out a small black and white (old) portable TV. I remember all of us standing there in shock wondering if this was real. When the first towers collapsed, we just all looked at each other but never said a word. The phones started ringing with calls from all of our families in disbelief.

I have lived through a presidential assassination,(J.Kennedy), an assassin's assassination, (Oswald), a presidential candidate's assassination,(R.Kennedy) an activist's assassination,(King)the horror pictures from the Viet Nam War and now in most recent memory 911. They are all chilling an reminiscent of all the destructive evil still in this world.

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Today is the 7th anniversary of the most recent attacks from foreign sources on our soil. The 9/11 attacks on the Towers, a field in Pennsylvania and in Washington DC. Few of us will ever forget that day, or the days that followed. For many, that day is a painful reminder of family/friends lost forever at the hands of terrorists.

I remember being out with my wife on that morning - an early morning doctors appointment, with the television on in the reception room. I remember the initial report, then the next and the hours/days that followed seemed like a nightmare in real time. Travel was restricted, few were beyond suspicion. In some ways, we're still living this.

Where were you - and "Do you remember" this modern day nightmare?

Well said MT----We can never ever forget what they did to us and never ever allow them to do it again. :'(

I was sitting at my desk working when I heard about it on PYX 106. I then took a small black and white (I think) TV out of my drawer that I had for listening to other things and the office gathered around to watch what was happening. Some of the people in the service units were told of the attack via the people calling in to them.

I was asleep when the first plane hit (I work over nights). I got a slew of calls about it, and finally woke up in time to see the 2nd plane hit on ABC. I spent far too many hours following that on the phone and emails, either being contacted by friends and relatives in NYC (some FDNY and NYPD), or trying to contact them. It was the 12th when a friend's wife called, saying that her husband was missing, and to call his beeper number in case someone could hear it, and find him. He was in Rescue 1 of FDNY, and was in the Towers when they went down. Spent a lot of time talking to her over the next few weeks until he was declared dead. I kept pouring over the lists of the missing and dead to see how many people I knew were there. Only one I had any direct contact with, and no family, but I did "know" several others tangentially through other people.

RIP Ken Marino FDNY Rescue 1

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