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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- 20 Years Ago...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is our assignment Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing:

1)  Today is September 11th, and the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States.  Where were you, what were you doing, and how did it affect you?


2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post.

Here's mine:

We did not learn of the attacks until we got to work. Johanna and I carpooled and never had the radio on. Instead, we planned out our day as we drove into work at the Hayward Training Center.

Once there, someone told us to come into the classroom and see something. They got the video monitor to tune into a local station using rabbit ears and we saw through a very fuzzy screen the first building had been struck, wondering how a plane could make such a horrible mistake. Then we saw the second plane strike and knew it was not a mistake but a terror attack.

After awhile we couldn’t watch anymore and went to back to work. We were setting up the North Concord Training Center and later left to purchase a printer. It was surreal. There was hardly anyone on the road and very few people in the stores. I do not think the guy who helped us even knew about it.

During the rest of the week, I saw very little of the images. Our youngest daughter cried every time it came on TV. I think we saw a lot of programming from the Disney Channel, which probably helped a lot of parents, knowing their children had a safe place to view.

I do remember buying an antenna flag for the car and seeing so many flags flown at houses and other vehicles. Though the whole thing was scary and had a lot of uncertainty, people seemed to come together in a united front (unless of course you looked middle eastern—there were lots of reports of suspicious middle eastern people at BART).

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Comments

  1. I'm glad you had the Disney Channel for your daughter. I remember reports of how lots of people were telling their doctors how stressed they were over watching the coverage but didn't change the channel away from the coverage.

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    1. She lives in NYC now and can finally go to ground zero. What they have done there is beautiful--a place to remember.

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  2. Like Pearl Harbor Day, it's a day that will live in infamy. You were lucky to have a job where you didn't watch coverage for the entire work day. I remember being exhausted when I left after school.

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    1. Me, too. I remember the weekend of JFK's assassination. That was all that was on the TV and we only had 5 channels in those days.

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  3. It was an awful day. I remember listening to KCBS and thought at first it was something like War of the Worlds. When I realized it wasn't I became very upset and couldn't believe it. Truly a sad day for all of us.

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