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Days of infamy
by Outspoken on Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:55 am
Days of infamy
BY MEGHAN V. MALLOY
Staff Writer Kennebec Journal
September 11, 2001. Ask anyone, and they will be able to tell you where they were and what they were doing that Tuesday morning.
Considered the day of infamy to people born in the last 25 years, Sept. 11 transformed the lives of Mainers and Americans alike.
It wasn't the only day time stood still for many Americans, however. Many recall exactly they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, or when Japanese military forces bombed Pearl Harbor.
As people across the nation remember the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon Building, Mainers reflect on the days that changed history and the American people.
SEPT. 11, 2001
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 was like any other autumn morning in Maine.
Ed Newcombe, now 27, woke up and turned on his television for the morning news.
What he saw was something unbelievable: one of the World Trade Centers in New York City smoking and on fire.
"The first building had already been hit, it was smoking," Newcombe said.
Unable to look away from the carnage unfolding in front of him on television, Newcombe said he was "watching when the second plane hit the other tower."
"It was horrible," he said. "Even though it was far away, I was kind of scared."
Newcombe added that he feels less secure since the attacks.
"If somebody could take a giant plane from a big corporation and smash it into a building of such importance, yeah, that makes me feel less secure," Newcombe said. "I'm a lot less important than them, I'm a lot less protected."
Brenda Hernandez was already at work when she heard two airplanes had struck the New York City skyscrapers.
One of her coworkers was worried a friend of his might have been on one of the flights.
"It was very touching," Hernandez, of Augusta, said of the memory. "It was devastating."
Hernandez, who now works at the Capital Connection pizza and sandwich shop in the Statehouse, said she's been afraid to fly ever since.
"It makes me more aware of people," she said.
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5394919.html
BY MEGHAN V. MALLOY
Staff Writer Kennebec Journal
September 11, 2001. Ask anyone, and they will be able to tell you where they were and what they were doing that Tuesday morning.
Considered the day of infamy to people born in the last 25 years, Sept. 11 transformed the lives of Mainers and Americans alike.
It wasn't the only day time stood still for many Americans, however. Many recall exactly they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, or when Japanese military forces bombed Pearl Harbor.
As people across the nation remember the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon Building, Mainers reflect on the days that changed history and the American people.
SEPT. 11, 2001
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 was like any other autumn morning in Maine.
Ed Newcombe, now 27, woke up and turned on his television for the morning news.
What he saw was something unbelievable: one of the World Trade Centers in New York City smoking and on fire.
"The first building had already been hit, it was smoking," Newcombe said.
Unable to look away from the carnage unfolding in front of him on television, Newcombe said he was "watching when the second plane hit the other tower."
"It was horrible," he said. "Even though it was far away, I was kind of scared."
Newcombe added that he feels less secure since the attacks.
"If somebody could take a giant plane from a big corporation and smash it into a building of such importance, yeah, that makes me feel less secure," Newcombe said. "I'm a lot less important than them, I'm a lot less protected."
Brenda Hernandez was already at work when she heard two airplanes had struck the New York City skyscrapers.
One of her coworkers was worried a friend of his might have been on one of the flights.
"It was very touching," Hernandez, of Augusta, said of the memory. "It was devastating."
Hernandez, who now works at the Capital Connection pizza and sandwich shop in the Statehouse, said she's been afraid to fly ever since.
"It makes me more aware of people," she said.
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/5394919.html
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