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		Stratoscope on Sept 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’ I was sitting at the kitchen table reading a Usenet group on my ThinkPad. I saw a headline: "WTC?" I thought to myself, "WTF? That must be what they meant and they misspelled it." Then I turned on the TV and saw the rest. Where were you?

AstralStorm on Sept 10, 2019 [–]

Even in Poland they showed it, I was watching something random wiser and suddenly this. First I though this was some action movie, then the news ticker that was correct and accurate hit me. That's when the second plane hit, and then later the towers collapsed.

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