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by Oldgringo
Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:11 pm
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Topic: Where were you when the towers fell?
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Re: Where were you when the towers fell?

On that day, I was the PM of a $105MM barracks construction project on Ft. Bragg, NC. The army post and nearby Pope AFB went on high alert and lockdown. I decided that I had been "on the road" long enough and began the trip back to the Pineywoods a couple of days later. It was weird passing Hartsfield Field in Atlanta, Birmingham Airport, etc., and not an airplane in the sky. For that matter, there weren't many vehicles on the road either.

My first job after university (Univ Tenn, '67) was as a Product Development Engr. for the steel company that provided the steel joists for the floor systems in the WTC's. I had been up in the first tower when it was only 15 stories above grade and saw the 6 floors of undergound steel. I couldn't believe the first reports of "tower collapse". Later that evening, I saw the collapse from within on TV.

I also saw the news reports of various muslims in the near east laughing, dancing and warbleing at news of the deaths of the infidels in America. I didn't like them well before 9/11 and I like them a lot less now. That's all I'm going to say about that.

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