^this^The Sept 11th stuff hits hard on Americans because we'd never had anything like that happen here, really. No IRA bombings, no Holocaust, nothing. But this isn't an American interwebz board, and I respect that*.
FWIW, On Sept 11 I drove home, or started on the way home - about 500 miles. Bellied up for the night at a hotel in Winchester, Virginia...there were half a dozen people around the bar, all of use doing the same thing - driving home. It was pretty surreal. Got up the next morning, dropped south through Virginia on the old roads, staying off the motorways. Nothing had changed...time stands still in those rural places.
*actually the fact that it's not an American interwebz board is what I like about it :)
(FWIW, On Sept 11 I drove home, or started on the way home - about 500 miles. Bellied up for the night at a hotel in Winchester, Virginia...there were half a dozen people around the bar, all of use doing the same thing - driving home. It was pretty surreal. Got up the next morning, dropped south through Virginia on the old roads, staying off the motorways. Nothing had changed...time stands still in those rural places.
*actually the fact that it's not an American interwebz board is what I like about it :)
HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman,
Wed 15 Apr 2009, 22:49,
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Me and Fleur went up to KSC a few days after.People weren't suspect at all. They were really friendly, but a bit subdued. It's the first time I ever saw Blitz Spirit in the States.
And then there were the KSC guards. First time I ever had an AR15, an MP5 and a Beretta even vaguely pointed at me all at the same time.
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Wed 15 Apr 2009, 23:04,
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And then there were the KSC guards. First time I ever had an AR15, an MP5 and a Beretta even vaguely pointed at me all at the same time.