08-04-2002, 03:26 PM
Quote:Hell, seeing military aircraft over New York was freaky enough...
That just brought back a memory that I haven't thought about in a while. Probably the second scarriest thing that day.
After the second tower fell, we were all just standing around, most were crying, but no one was really talking, and then all of a sudden we hear something that scares the shit out of everyone. It sounds like there is a plane right over our heads and VERY close. Someone actually screamed "Oh no, another one"
What we didn't know is that it was the Combat Air Patrols. There were F-16's patrolling the skies overhead, and they are VERY loud. I looked up and could barely make out this little silver plane making a huge banking turn right over lower Manhattan. I didn't know at the time, but an F-16 at 2000 feet sounds like a passenger jet at 10,000 feet. They don't make those things to be quiet.
It was one of the shittiest feelings, before we noticed that the sounds was a fighter jet there to protect us, being totally helpless and powerless
Fighter jets overhead became a semi-regular occurance for the following few weeks, but that one that came streaking overhead will be with me for a long time
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.