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The collaspe of the Trade Towers

Janice Ryan

I had been traveling with a group in Austria on a music tour. The flight from Vienna was delayed due to a thunder storm. Hence we missed the flight from Amsterdam and the one in Detroit to Columbus. We stayed over night in Detroit arriving in Columbus on Sunday evening, September...

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Where Was I on 9-11

Rachel Johnson

I really don't remember where I was on 9-11. I just remember a feeling of incredulity looking at the buildings on fire. I kept thinking, "There will be a lot of injuries." But there were none. It was eerie and sickening to think of all those people just gone. Everything that...

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What was I doing when the attack on 9-11 occurred?

Diane J. Adams

I look back at 9-11 and sometimes wonder why we want to honor a disaster. Why do we want to give credit to the power and damage the terrorists caused Americans that day? I have three sons and the fear of having to send them to war terrifies me. When they...

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The Spratt Genetics

Charles William Spratt

It’s amazing how genetics passes down your looks. My son looks like me and I look like my Dad and so on. You start to wonder how far does this go on. I know for a fact it does go on for awhile in my family. This is Charles William...

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9 11 2001

Christine Cormier

I was having a cup of coffee, with my husband Tom, in our living room and watching the television, when breaking news came on. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer were telling us over and over when the first plane hit tower 1. We immediately called our sons, Justin and Tyler and...

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Still So Much Pain

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I've written my accounting of where I was on 9-11. But, this morning I sit with Christine watching the build up to the 10th anniversary ceremonies at the three historic locations. We spent the evening last night watching beautifully produced documentaries about the attacks. I had to write this because I...

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Unravelling the Old Ball of Wool

Annie Payne

Mum died just 3 weeks after her 60th birthday in 1979, and like all who preceded her, she took the facts about her life with her. Both of her parents had died before her and she was an only child, making it very difficult to find out more than bare facts...

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Holding Pattern Over Memphis

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Brad Hill was the GM of LTA Media, my marketing company on 9-11. He was on his way to Los Angeles to meet a new client, flying at 30,000 feet above Memphis, Tennessee when he heard the strangest announcement over the intercom. The pilot said they had to land immediately and...

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11 September 2001

Golden V. Adams Jr.

The day started out like most school days. I got up early and had a good breakfast, and did my fifteen mile commute to Centennial Middle School where I taught eighth grade integrated science. But this was not a normal school day, for the students were not at school. Provo School...

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Donations

JUSTIN ERIK CORMIER

My brother and I started an off-road apparel company called Dirty Left Elbow and at our first event to launch the company we chose a charitable event called Rocktoberfest over in North Carolina. It was in November of 2009. We, along with all the other vendors, were supposed...

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A Cloudless Sky - September 11, 2001

Patricia White

I remember thinking as I drove to the downtown school where I taught court reporting, what a perfect autumn day it was, a cloudless sky on September 11, 2001 in Columbus, Ohio. That morning I was assisting the head teacher as we read Q&A for high speed students preparing for graduation. Around 10:30 that morning a member of...

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Johnny Took the Heat for Me

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Jimmy was the oldest of 10, I was second and then there was a twin girl and boy, Joan and Johnny. Johnny is and always has been the funniest sibling of the family. Everyone looks forward to reunions with Johnny because of the unexpected hilarity that is bound to take place....

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My teenage loves

Janice Ryan

My parents were in control of what movies I was allowed to see! No scary ones were allowed, so I saw love stories and musicals. These were the days of great MGM spectaculars with loads of girls in colorful costumes dancing down stairs as the main character entered last. There realy...

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Great-great Grandmother Susan

Susan Darbro

My great-great grandmother Susan Barton Lutz was born in 1838, the year Queen Victoria was crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Ladies wore their hair in ringlets while indoors and covered with lavishly trimmed bonnets when outdoors. Dresses were designed with sloping shoulders, full sleeves and full skirts often...

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I Remember the Week from Hell - September 2011

Annie Payne

The Week From Hell – September 2001 Perhaps those of you living in the USA might wonder why the week that included the infamous 9/11/2001 should resonate so strongly with an Australian woman living in Adelaide at the time? However, that week is indelibly etched into my consciousness very clearly, with...

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Where I was on 9-11

Administrator

It was an exciting day for me as I was anticipating a conference call with a potential new client for my business, LTA Media. I was pacing, waiting for the call in the living room of our lake house at Rarity Bary in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The...

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Carolyn Sue Scroggins and her Kids

Charles William Spratt

Charles & Carolyn Spratt with our two sons 1978 about a year before her death. March 28 1979 is a date that will live on in the memories of my family for ever . That is the date that my first wife , the mother of my first two son’s died...

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Grandma Beavers Didn't Have A Canopy Over Her Bed

Charles William Spratt

I have been encouraged to write some more about my Grandma Beavers by my cousin . Because he said he didn’t know an awful lot about her except his memories of her soon after her husband had died and she was a crabby old woman . My mother was the youngest...

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Charlie's First Car A 1972 Ford Maverick

Charles William Spratt

Since Tom Cormier’s son Tyler wrote a story about his experience with his dirt bike and his cars I will write one about my deceased son’s car. Since he is not around to do it for himself. It’s just too good of a story not to pass along. Charlie as we...

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A Camping Trip I Won't Forget

Charles William Spratt

When I was in high school in Pauls Valley ,Oklahoma the main thing we did during the summer months was go camping at Lake Murray near Ardmore Oklahoma. This is about 50 miles from the Texas state line . It never gets cold until late December that far south . This...

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