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Memories and thoughts from our employees.
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Mike Beeler
Shreveport,
Louisiana
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One Controller..One Airplane
The morning of Sept 11 was much different than the day before. Scheduled for a day watch in the Shreveport RAPCON, today would be unlike any other. An emotional filled day with the most demanding of tasks ever asked of the air traffic system. (MORE...)
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Joanne Bessom
Burlington,
Massachusetts
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Coming Together
From all of the devastation that happened on Sept 11, how everyone pulled together, the following are lines from a poem I wrote called, "Coming Together". (MORE...)
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Cheryl Cooley
Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
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Dejavue
September 11, 2001, was "horror revisited" for residents of Oklahoma. I think we knew very quickly what our friends in New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania would be experiencing. We still feel the scars of the 1995 Murrah Building Bombing in
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Kenneth Geisinger
Washington,
District of Columbia
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A Dark Cloud
I was on vacation. On Sunday morning my wife and I left on a bus tour from Baltimore to Branston, MO to see the shows. I was having breakfast in the hotel on our first morning there and I overheard
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Greg Haire
Atlanta,
Georgia
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National Emergency
As I was completing inspection reports, a co-worker came in to my office & announced that a plane crashed into the WTC. I kept working, knowing that a small GA aircraft must have drifted off course.
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Steven King
Washington,
District of Columbia
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9/11 air ambulance
On September 11, about 1:30 I recieved a call from a foreman of a coal mine in the Eastern Kentucky mountains needing an air ambulance to take a man from Hazard, Kentucky to the University of Kentucky
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Ousmane Kouyate
Silver Spring,
Maryland
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Why That
How can anyone forget 09/11/2001?
Papers flying from the towers,
Smoke covering the blue sky,
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Mitch Narins
Washington,
District of Columbia
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A long drive home
I had arrived in Salt Lake City on Sunday, 9/9/01, to attend the Civil Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting that started that morning and would continue on 9/10 and 9/11. I was on the 9/10 program
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Michael Shannon
West Mifflin,
Pennsylvania
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Ensuring the Future!
That day, I saw my children’s environment, our nation’s environment blatantly threatened and brutalized by militants.
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Charlie Bradley
Westbury,
New York
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Answering the call...
On the morning of Sept 11, I was on my RDO, taking my daughter to school, listening to the traffic report on WCBS when the reporter started to tell of smoke coming from the World Trade Center. I went home, saw what
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Courtney Tucker
Washington,
District of Columbia
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A Second Chance
I retired in December 2000 from FAA’s Civil Aviation Security Policy and Planning office and moved near my wife’s hometown, Syracuse, N.Y. On September 11, we were at the doctor. My reaction to the attacks
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David Arnold
Vint Hill,
Virginia
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Team Time
The Potomac TRACON ACE-IDS Team (Staff Manager, Staff Specialist and their NATCA Partners -- four in all) were at the Atlanta TRACON for a Systems Management Team Meeting with the contractor when the word came that
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Virginia Cataldo
Jamaica,
New York
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Majestic Towers
A vision of space within a concrete forest,
Inch by inch, building, never time to rest.
A unique thought and a lot of man power,
Until there stood the Majestic Twin Towers.
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Carlos Gallardo
San Antonio,
Texas
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2nd Day of Infamy
It was only our second week in indoc. and our instructor had just given us a reading assignment when one of our classmates yelled out, "Oh My God", as he pushed himself away from the desk and ran out the
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Lori Ledebohm
Camp Hill,
Pennsylvania
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Remember
While you are honoring and remembering those who were lost on the day that changed our lives forever, please don't forget to honor and remember those who have
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Adurey Lucas
San Antonio,
Texas
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The Day Our Lives Where Shattered
I had walked out of my office to go to the canteen. There was a large group of people standing around looking at the television monitor in the hallway. I asked what was going on
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Nancy Matthews
Atlantic City,
New Jersey
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9/11
I was in Linthicum, MD, at a training class, which was supposed to be several days, and we just began the class for an hour, and when we broke, the instructor turned on the TV.
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Shari Sander
Dulles,
Virginia
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Too Close For Comfort
I was in a staff meeting when we received a call from a coworker who was in training and informed us of the first WTC attack. As the incredible news unfolded throughout the morning,
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Connie Vinck
Washington,
District of Columbia
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Two Hearts Beat As One
I was on a detail at the Engineering Center(EC)in Herndon, VA. On 9-11 when the plane hit the Pentagon they began to evacuate the EC and other Federal facilities throughout the District. My husband,
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Mary Williams
Washington,
District of Columbia
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A Day to Remember
On September 11, 2001, I was at the FAA headquarters in Washington, DC. I remember someone telling my managers that an airplane had crashed into the WTC building in NY; later the second building
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Hundreds of FAA people worked to improve security and restore civil aviation after the skies were closed on Sept. 11, 2001. Here are some of their portraits.
Week of September 2
Week of September 9
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