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Regular_John · 08-30-2011, 04:18 PM

I was working at Superstore in Brandon, MB at the time as I'd just graduated from High School (yes saskflames96's story makes me feel old) and was taking a year off before going to college.

Anyways I didn't have to work till 11-12 so I had slept in and got up around 10:00ish and my Mom was home watching the news reports. She was actually on strike at the time and had been on the picket line quite a bit so I asked "hey, what are you doing at home?" to which she replied "America is under attack..."

I believe by the time I had gotten up the second plane had already hit but both towers were standing. I had the radio on the in car on the way to work and still trying to absorb what was really happening, that whole day/afternoon at the store was filled with updates from coworkers "a tower has collapse, a plane hit the pentagon" along with a bunch of the crazy rumours of the day "president is dead, whitehouse is on fire etc".

The biggest thing I remember from that day/weeks after was the feeling that the other shoe was yet to drop. All those terrible events that happen in "other" parts of the world had happened here (north american in general) and we were no longer safe. That feeling stuck around for a long time afterwards as I recall.

08-30-2011, 04:18 PM	#71
Regular_John First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Calgary Exp:	I was working at Superstore in Brandon, MB at the time as I'd just graduated from High School (yes saskflames96's story makes me feel old) and was taking a year off before going to college. Anyways I didn't have to work till 11-12 so I had slept in and got up around 10:00ish and my Mom was home watching the news reports. She was actually on strike at the time and had been on the picket line quite a bit so I asked "hey, what are you doing at home?" to which she replied "America is under attack..." I believe by the time I had gotten up the second plane had already hit but both towers were standing. I had the radio on the in car on the way to work and still trying to absorb what was really happening, that whole day/afternoon at the store was filled with updates from coworkers "a tower has collapse, a plane hit the pentagon" along with a bunch of the crazy rumours of the day "president is dead, whitehouse is on fire etc". The biggest thing I remember from that day/weeks after was the feeling that the other shoe was yet to drop. All those terrible events that happen in "other" parts of the world had happened here (north american in general) and we were no longer safe. That feeling stuck around for a long time afterwards as I recall.