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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Thank you, and you are probably right. However, that day was far too personal for me being from NY for the reasons I already stated. And what I didn't mention is that my son was in the air when it happened, flying from Phoenix TO Boston. When the FAA order came through the pilot put that plane on the ground in Indianapolis from 37,000 feet in about 4 minutes!
Maybe if al-Jazeera America changed it's name to apple pie instead of that Arabic gibberish I'd be less critical.
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I was working a temp job at Pratt-Whitney on 9/11. We had the TV news running in the background while we were configuring helicopter parts for the military. This was in North Haven, CT, around 1 hour away from NYC.
All of a sudden the guy sitting behind me in the office yelled something like "oh sh**!" or "OH MY GOD" or something equally attention-grabbing. We turned to watch the first tower burning, and the announcers proclaiming that it was a terrorist attack.
The guy who drew our attention to the TV then said something like "you know, this plant (our Pratt-Whitney building) would make a great target for them too.
I didn't even say a word. I fled from the building and went home. After I was able to breathe normally again I called the temp agency and told them what happened and that I wasn't going back to that job.
What happened was not the act of "those Arabs." It was the act of a very specific group of terrorists.
Not all brown-skinned people are terrorists. Not all hijab-wearing women are oppressed. Not all turban-wearing men are even Arabs, OR members of any terrorist movement. And not all Muslims are terrorists. In fact, most are not. The fringe are. Just like the fringe of white-skinned American people are white supremacists and neo-Nazis and "alt-right." They don't represent America.