Several Years Ago Today

[Pingjockey]

It was seven years ago when a brutal attack took place on american soil. This brutal and senseless act of violence and terror not only took lives of americans but also the lives of people from places outside the US. I know that the war on terror, Iraq and Afghanistan may or may not be popular to talk about. But I think that a few momments of silence for those people that lost there lives both as victims and as the rescuers are in order.

At this time serveral years ago I had just come off the mid-watch as Sonar Supervisor on my second boat. We were out working up for a training exercise and I was asleep when the CO came across the 1mc and gave the news that we were attacked. It was not until the evening watch came around and I woken up that I was told the news. Being orginally from New York my first thought was about my parents who worked in Manhattan and if they were ok. My next thought was what was going to happen next and who would have done such a thing to us.

We pulled back into Groton a day later and the base was locked down, machine nests and various humvees all over the base. It was a very intense day that I will never forget.

I will applogize to everyone in advance in case people think I am trying to start a flame war but I just need to post this and I ask that all of fellow submariner brothers to join me in reflection.

Thank you

Pingjockey

[Platapus]

How's this for a creepy 11Sep01 story:

There I was (no Sh!t)

On Tuesday mornings I was supporting our war-gaming and exercise support people in Virginia. Tuesday 0900 was the team meeting. I remember walking down the hall and catching a glimpse of one of the towers burning.

"oh crap, there is a fire in one of the WTC towers, that must suck." And I went down to my team meeting.

It just happened that there was an exercise going on in my agency. The way they run these exercises is that they hand out script cards to people to participate. The card might say "at 0905 call the security office and report smelling smoke in stairway 7F" Stuff like that.

One of our exercise support people had such a script card and was supposed to participate in the exercise.

Just after 0900 we got word of the second aircraft crashing into the towers. Our exercise guy paled. His exercise card said that at 0915 he was supposed to call and report that a airplane had crashed into one of our towers. Our facility consists of a number of connected buildings referred to as towers.

Naturally the exercise was canceled, but this is very very eery. :nope: