Microblog post: "Today I found out my coworker didn't know about 9/11 so I had to explain it to him :/" Pictures of someone watching images of 9/11 in shock
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[–] 28 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I was supposed to fly, with my whole family, later that morning. We drove instead.

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    From a famous promontory near watchung, with about a thousand people, I watched the second tower fall.

    We had a peer set to interview at C.F that morning, right as the disaster started. He'd missed a ferry and that caused him to be late for his interview. Just as well.

    A number of our friends commuted through that site every morning at the same time. Luckily, they all eventually reported in, but we'd thought they were affected directly for a lot of the day.

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    I imagine that trip wasn't quite as carefree as it was meant to be

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    With a toddler! I wedged a little TV between the seats, facing backwards, and played a video of Cathy Rigby's legendary performance of Peter Pan, over and over, all the way down, and all the way back. By the time we got home, I had the entire thing memorized, and I had never actually SEEN it.

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