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Smith Point · 09-12-2011, 05:32 AM

Ten years ago today I was installing kitchen cabinets at the “Cambridge condo job” I was inside a cabinet at 9:00 in the morning in full swing, screwing down a counter top, my pager was ringing off the wall, (way too busy to look at my pager), when Chris Sullivan walked in the door and asked me if I knew what was going on? I said no but my pager is going nuts (it must be something big) he told me that a jumbo jet just crashed into the world trade center! My first thought was in Boston? No New York City! I was just stunted; I didn’t know what to do. I turned my radio to WBZ am (it was on WBCN, probably way to loud for that time in the morning) walked outside to see a couple of guys and a backhoe prepping for a concrete side walk. Put my hand up to my through and told them to cut it! He shut down the machine and we listened to the radio in amassment. Just then a 2- F15 fighter jets flew overhead at full throttle I’m thinking what the (heck) is going on? We were listening to the radio and learned that another jet just hit the south tower! Everybody is just walking around like zombies in total disillusionment. We can’t believe what’s going on. The looks on our faces as well as the other people around me were just in astonishment, were thinking what do we do now? I called my wife at Putman investments at 1 PO Square and told her to go home! She said she was already in the parking garage and that she had a call coming in, got to go. She Called back and told me what I already knew. She Called back again and said the traffic out bound was so bad to just stay there. So I did, got the job done. It will be a day that I will “never forget.”

09-12-2011, 05:32 AM	#36
Smith Point Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Smith Point/ Bangor ME Posts: 195 Thanks: 198 Thanked 35 Times in 18 Posts	Ten years ago today I was installing kitchen cabinets at the “Cambridge condo job” I was inside a cabinet at 9:00 in the morning in full swing, screwing down a counter top, my pager was ringing off the wall, (way too busy to look at my pager), when Chris Sullivan walked in the door and asked me if I knew what was going on? I said no but my pager is going nuts (it must be something big) he told me that a jumbo jet just crashed into the world trade center! My first thought was in Boston? No New York City! I was just stunted; I didn’t know what to do. I turned my radio to WBZ am (it was on WBCN, probably way to loud for that time in the morning) walked outside to see a couple of guys and a backhoe prepping for a concrete side walk. Put my hand up to my through and told them to cut it! He shut down the machine and we listened to the radio in amassment. Just then a 2- F15 fighter jets flew overhead at full throttle I’m thinking what the (heck) is going on? We were listening to the radio and learned that another jet just hit the south tower! Everybody is just walking around like zombies in total disillusionment. We can’t believe what’s going on. The looks on our faces as well as the other people around me were just in astonishment, were thinking what do we do now? I called my wife at Putman investments at 1 PO Square and told her to go home! She said she was already in the parking garage and that she had a call coming in, got to go. She Called back and told me what I already knew. She Called back again and said the traffic out bound was so bad to just stay there. So I did, got the job done. It will be a day that I will “never forget.”