re: Did you know anyone in the World Trade center on this date 15 years ago?

Yes

Son in law of a coworker. I didn't know him.
A friend was in one if the other buildings. We didn't gear for a couple days.

Hey Rebeloke...look right here...

Beginning to wish you and Mizzou...never mind.

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no engineer but I am surprised that they didn't aim the planes far lower...Perhaps they thought that the towers would instantly topple if they hit up high.

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If they would've done that and hijacked the planes later on in the day then the amount casualties wouldve been so much more. A lot of employees at the WTCs hadn't gotten to work yet that day. Thank god

Are you dumb? What difference does it make if I said towers or he said wtc or wrote it out? Frickin commy bastard!

I mentioned a little bit about this in the other thread. My GF at the time's father was an attorney/lobbyist in DC and saw the smoke from the Pentagon driving in to work. He was going to a Congressional committee meeting at the Capitol, and would have been there when Flight 93 crashed into it if the passengers hadn't taken it down. She had also been a producer for NBC News, and knew Barbara Olsen, who was on one of the planes that crashed into the WTC.

Her Dad was pretty well connected and heard every rumor that spread around DC. A lot of people were worried that Al Qaeda had gotten hold of Russian suitcase nukes. Her parents were at a diplomatic reception one night, and some guys in suits came in and whisked Colin Powell and his wife out of the room in the middle of his welcoming remarks. Pretty freaky.

Needless to say, she was pretty shook up about all this, and I did my best to be supportive and talk her through it. She broke up with me not too long after that, which I thought was a shitty thing to do. A psychologist later told me that it's not unusual for people who've been through traumatic events to do this. They want to disassociate themselves from anything that reminds them of the event. I still think it was shitty of her, but I have an understanding of why she did it.

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Was just doing some reading on the cowardly attacks and there was more than 14,000 ppl inside the two towers when the planes hit. A HUGE % of folks who were below where the planes hit got out. I did not know this until this evening.

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I was going to post a snarky comment about how the hell is it possible you didn't know this, but then I realized it's been 15 years. I am 37, so like many on here, I watched it unfold live and seems like it was only just a couple of years ago. What's really sobering is 9/11 is just a date and historical moment to tens of millions of Americans in their mid 20's and younger. Hell, for the kids learning about it in high school, it's no different to them than learning about Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy assassination.

Merrill Lynch lost 6 people I believe. Very sad.

The building I work in also has the company Marsh and Marsh was almost completely destroyed on 9/11.

didnt know anyone but had a cousin take the tour a week or two before it happen. She had pictures at the top and alot of people that worked there. Makes you woner how many people in those photos didnt make it?

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Why the hell was she walking in as the 2nd plane hit?

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I thought the same, however, I remember very well that most of the news coverage wasn't quite sure exactly what had happened when the first plane hit. Most thought it was small plane and a stupid accident. I think the first one was at about 845 AM or so and the second was a little after 900AM? Most people were just carrying on with their day, oblivious until the second plane hit.