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The stock from which my family evolved was mostly Southern and most of them had little or no formal schooling. But imbedded in the gene pool they created were genes that came to the fore in a very pronounced way in my Dad's personality. Two of those genes could accurately be...
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DESCRIBE AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE THAT OCCURRED WITHIN YOUR FAMILY Click HERE to create your story * Click HERE to learn how * Click HERE to trigger memories and ideas Read some member stories from last week's "Pride" topic: When I was growing up, school was challenging for me, especially math, and...
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My wife and I were sitting in our living room when our youngest son called and told us to turn on the TV. We watched in stunned disbelief as fire and smoke billowed from the first-struck tower and then in complete incredulity as the second airplane hit the other tower. We...
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We were living in Houston in 2001. Thinking our stay there would be brief, I temporarily stepped outside my profession and took a part-time job at a nearby travel agency. I had been an agent years before and thought it would be fun and good for a few travel perks. On the morning of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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