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Random Talk / Re: Where were you on September 11th 2001?
« on: September 01, 2011, 06:56:20 PM »
I work for Arkansas State Govt. in Little Rock. My supervisor at the time and myself were at a Federal software conference just outside of Baltimore Maryland. We flew out there on Sunday the 9th. The conference was at a hotel in Hunt Valley, a suburb of Baltimore. On that Tuesday morning the 11th we were sitting with about 350 other people in one of the hotel's conference rooms when one of the speakers announced a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. Several people ran outside the room in tears. We were there with representatives from all over the country so those people may have been from New York. The speaker went ahead and resumed the opening of the conference a few minutes later then was handed a message and announced "They just bombed the Pentagon". This was very early information and the facts weren't in yet. At this point they disbanded the conference until they had a better idea what was going on. For one thing the people putting on the conference were Federal employees and their offices were closing. We were staying in the hotel across the street and didn't want to go back to our rooms yet so we went with our friends from the conference in search of a tv. We found some tvs turned on to the coverage in the hotel bar. We watched the towers come down. One of our friends said it's Pearl Harbor all over again. Though we weren't in any danger where we were at it was a lot closer to DC and New York and Pennsylvania than Little Rock. We ended up staying at the conference until Thursday when we rented a van to drive home. It was eerie going to Baltimore-Washington airport to rent the van and finding the airport a ghost town.
