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2002-08-19

Below is an excerpt of a chat conversation between myself and my boss who was running a little bit late that day. She started watching the TV and between her, my wife, and other people who had family at home we were getting all our information via them or the radio. The internet was totally full of course.

It is rather lenghty and has some expletives in it.


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Ann MSG dude i'm running a little late

Ann MSG i'm watching the bombings on the news

Ann MSG FYI

Tim MSG ok

Tim MSG keep us updated

Tim MSG Brian just got here, and no one is really working

Ann MSG dude this is SCARY

Ann MSG everything is blowing up

Ann MSG pentagon on fire

Ann MSG major terrorist attacks

Ann MSG all bridges/tunnels closed

Ann MSG pentagon/white house evacuated

Ann MSG FAA stopped all flights in the country

Ann MSG president is in Sarasota and they're checking out his plane right now

Ann MSG oh my god you should the towers

Ann MSG smoke and fire everywhere

Ann MSG president on his way back to DC

Tim MSG crazy

Ann MSG this is unbelievable

Tim MSG we are looking for a TV

Ann MSG a plane crashed into the pentagon

Tim MSG um I am going to suggest to the people downtown that leave, do you think that would be ok?

Tim MSG they just evactuatyed the Sears tower

Ann MSG are you serious????

Tim MSG yuy

Tim MSG hold one sec Ann

Ann MSG they mentioned that Chicago is a city they're watching

Ann MSG k

Ann MSG everything is being evacuated in DC

Ann MSG the stock market is suspended

Tim MSG yeah I am telling

Tim MSG Jenny and the crew downtown didn't even know what was happening

Tim MSG I just told them to leave

Ann MSG this is fricking scary

Tim MSG pisses me off

Ann MSG good idea

Ann MSG sorry dude

Ann MSG i'd rather they not get blown up

Tim MSG yeah

Ann MSG updates

Tim MSG ok

Ann MSG another explosion in the 2nd tower of the trade cetner

Ann MSG smoke and fire everywhere

Tim MSG the towere collapsed?

Ann MSG yes

Ann MSG they just showed it

Ann MSG i'm shaking

Ann MSG they showed the plane literally crash THROUGH the 2nd tower

Ann MSG then the whole thing collapsed

Ann MSG the plane just crashed right through it

Ann MSG they've got police everywhere

Ann MSG with rifles

Tim MSG sorry

Ann MSG there was a threat on the white house

Tim MSG ok wait so another plane brought down the tower?

Ann MSG i couldn't tell

Ann MSG they showed a big honking plane fly right through it

Ann MSG i thought the building was already on fire

Tim MSG ok I am ready to re-up and go find out who did this

Ann MSG unbelievable

Tim MSG i think that was earlier?

Tim MSG my wife wants me to leave so I can see it on TV

Ann MSG i guess

Ann MSG they showed it

Ann MSG we're taping it

Ann MSG there is fire and sirens and smoke everywhere

Tim MSG as you can imagine no one is working?

Ann MSG didn't think so

Ann MSG the country is being blown up and terrorized

Ann MSG no working

Ann MSG the whole tower is GONHE

Ann MSG GONE

Tim MSG waiting for Dale to come across and tell us to get back to work

Tim MSG has the smoke cleared?

Ann MSG not so much

Ann MSG they're showing it again

Ann MSG the whole top of the bulding fell

Tim MSG UHHH! making my stomach turn

Ann MSG cuz the plane flew straight through it

Ann MSG update...

Ann MSG a plane just crashed into capitol hill

Tim MSG your kidding me

Ann MSG nope

Ann MSG 4th plane

Tim MSG OH MY GOD!

Ann MSG they have no idea how many fatalities

Ann MSG no DUH

Tim MSG is it the Capitol building?

Tim MSG heard that was false?

Ann MSG nope

Ann MSG the plane crashed into it

Tim MSG ok just talked to my wife and she said everything seems to be fine

Ann MSG justice dept is being evacuated

Tim MSG well I am sure this is goning to be a lot of confusion today

Ann MSG exactly

Ann MSG okay a witness is sayhing it's calm by the capitol

Tim MSG getting all kinds of conflicint reports

Tim MSG yeah

Ann MSG no one knows what's going on

Tim MSG yeah

Ann MSG witnesses teeling what they saw

Tim MSG said bodies were falling out of the WTC

Tim MSG sickeinig

Ann MSG one witness said he saw the plane from the 35th floor of some building and that a 767 hit
the tower

Ann MSG one witness said that she saw two people jumping from the second tower before it went dow
n

Ann MSG plane 1 - 767 from Boston

Ann MSG sorry dude...

Ann MSG your wife is correct

Ann MSG no explosion at the capitol

Tim MSG no hearing one at the State Department

Ann MSG the first twower just felp

Ann MSG fell

Tim MSG second tower down?

Ann MSG there is NOTHING LEFT

Tim MSG they are both gone huh

Tim MSG Mary Ellen has cousins that work in the WTC

Tim MSG ok we are going to the 2d floor cafe to see this

Tim MSG cheick in later

Ann MSG bye

Tim MSG man this is horrible

Ann MSG worse than that

Tim MSG ok back

Ann MSG dude

Ann MSG what did you see?

Ann MSG my training class was cancellede

Ann MSG do you want me to keep you up to date?

Tim MSG the planes crashing into the WTC and then them falling

Tim MSG almost puked

Ann MSG my husband called and i started crying

Ann MSG pardon my french

Ann MSG but this is FUCKED up

Tim MSG yup

Ann MSG war zone

Ann MSG ash everywhere

Tim MSG Can you donate blood? I would suggest you do it

Tim MSG I am

Ann MSG people slipping on it

Ann MSG i could donate blood

Tim MSG crazy

Ann MSG maybe i should go do that

Tim MSG I am

Ann MSG i don't even know where to go

Tim MSG 1-800-486-0680

Tim MSG got a lifesource card

Ann MSG no

Tim MSG I do

Tim MSG that is the number on it

Ann MSG where are you going?

Tim MSG don't know have to call

Ann MSG my girlfriend wants to go too

Ann MSG let me know please

Tim MSG ok

Ann MSG the plane that was heading for the pentagon has not showed up yet

Ann MSG another collapse at the world trade center

Ann MSG 50 stories crashed

Tim MSG yeah said another one in Pitt crashed, headed toward Chicago

Ann MSG yep

Ann MSG 747

Ann MSG don't know if it's related

Ann MSG they're talking about it now

Tim MSG wonder if that was Headed for the Sears Tower

Ann MSG it was heading from chicago to NYC

Tim MSG here is a link to Lifesoruce

Tim MSG http://www.lifesource.org/lscdc.htm

Ann MSG crashed outside of Pitt

Tim MSG Oh is that it, they weren't sure when I see

Tim MSG updates?

Ann MSG overseas attack

Tim MSG OH come on?

Tim MSG where?

Ann MSG pentagon collapsed

Ann MSG they don't know

Ann MSG a couple of groups taking responsibility

Tim MSG yeah figures

Ann MSG hold on

Tim MSG geeezzz

Ann MSG did i say the pitt flight was probably related?

Tim MSG ok I am up for blood now

Tim MSG weren't sure??

Ann MSG they are expecting more attack if possible

Ann MSG algerians

Ann MSG they're saying

Ann MSG are taking credit at this point

Tim MSG really? what did we do to them?

Ann MSG the news guy said it was "well planned"

Ann MSG DUH

Ann MSG tell me something we don't knokw

Ann MSG "very well organized"

Tim MSG yeah and the French Bakers' Association too..

Ann MSG no shit sherlock

Ann MSG hijacks of civilian airplanes

Ann MSG who knows how many are dead

Tim MSG boy these guys must of went for school for this

Tim MSG can't get through to the blood center as you can imagine

Ann MSG well that's a good sign

Ann MSG saw your note - thought it was a good idea

Tim MSG yeah

Tim MSG least I can do

Ann MSG smoke is clearing away somewhat

Ann MSG United airlines crash was pitts plane

Tim MSG yeah

Ann MSG okay - second plane was another american airlines flight

Tim MSG yup

Ann MSG the first one was going from Boston to LA had 54 people on board

Tim MSG well no one was spared

Ann MSG second going from DUlles to LA 81 people on board

Ann MSG Dulles is DC, yes?

Tim MSG yup

Ann MSG new conf from afghanistan soon

Tim MSG geezzz

Ann MSG center for disease control in ATL is preparing for bio-chem terrorism to be on the safe s
ide

Tim MSG nice

Ann MSG a flight crashed

Ann MSG another one supposedly

Ann MSG United flight 93 on route from NJ to CA crashed

Tim MSG oh man

Ann MSG antoher one

Ann MSG concern about another one

Ann MSG this is insane

Ann MSG commander of NATO

Ann MSG on line now

Ann MSG a General

Tim MSG ok hold one

Ann MSG k

Ann MSG they're expecting more trouble

Ann MSG they're worried about flights already in the air

Ann MSG says we need to ready for whatever happens next

Tim MSG geez I thought everything was grounded?

Ann MSG it was once they realized what was going on

Ann MSG anything that was already in the air is of concern

Tim MSG my wife lost cable

Ann MSG you lie

Tim MSG nope

Ann MSG there are two helicopters over the pentagon

Ann MSG people in the lawn

Tim MSG gunships probably

Tim MSG this is nuts

Tim MSG so much for world peace breaking out

Ann MSG helicopters are monitoring the airspace above DC

Ann MSG United is trying to figure out if more than one plane has crashed or if there is still on
e that they are "deeply concerned about"

Tim MSG oh great

Tim MSG great organizagion guys

Ann MSG going from Boston to LAX

Ann MSG they're talking more about the terrorists

Ann MSG islamic

Ann MSG G-HAAD?

Ann MSG haven't confirmed it

Ann MSG but supposedly they are claiming resp

Tim MSG yeah, I doubt it they are idiots

Ann MSG saying it's due to the US stance in the middle east

Tim MSG yeah just heard the same on the rafio

Tim MSG radio

Ann MSG here they go showing it all again

Ann MSG don't need to see it

Ann MSG over and over and over!!!

Tim MSG telling you it was Bin Laden, he is the only one with the brains, resources, and motivation
to do it

Tim MSG that image will be replayed for the rest of our lives

Ann MSG this obviously took a lot of braini

Tim MSG just like Pearl Harbor for some..

Tim MSG never get over it

Ann MSG you know the scene is DieHard 2 where the plane crashes

Ann MSG from

Ann MSG Die Hard

Tim MSG yup, that is wha I just told my friend, just like it

Ann MSG except worse

Ann MSG and i thought that was awful

Ann MSG Logan airport officials are now meeting with reporters

Ann MSG that's Boston yes?

Tim MSG great, really makes me feel like bringing a second child into the world

Tim MSG yes

Ann MSG they're giving a number out

Ann MSG to see if loved ones were on board

Ann MSG they're identifying the flights

Ann MSG saying stay away from the airport

Tim MSG I think Maryellen's cousins were in the Towers this morning, she has heard no new news

Ann MSG shit

Ann MSG what floor did they work on?

Tim MSG my friend was on the way to Boston city is closed

Ann MSG the phones are down

Tim MSG she has no idea

Tim MSG our phones?

Ann MSG i lied

Ann MSG NYC

Ann MSG i lied

Tim MSG you lost me, lol start again

Ann MSG they are NOT confirming any flights or hijackings

Ann MSG NYC phones are dead

Tim MSG ok

Tim MSG got ya

Tim MSG Boston, and Chicago are closed down

Ann MSG Logan has shut down all security points

Ann MSG moving people away from teh gates

Ann MSG all construction around the airport has been stopped

Tim MSG no duh

Ann MSG some dude is asking what they are doing to look at all the potential breeches of security


Ann MSG in all these planes

Tim MSG yeah I am sure that is the first thing on his mind

Ann MSG he's being as evasive as possible

Tim MSG I can't get anything on the internet

Ann MSG "did the pilot have any information or talk to the tower before this happened"

Ann MSG no comment

Ann MSG 'don't kinow

Ann MSG know

Ann MSG blah blah

Ann MSG blah

Tim MSG crazy

Ann MSG all he's confirmed is that the flights took off on time

Tim MSG well you know that is a lie

Tim MSG sorry, bad time for humor

Tim MSG they're talking about shutting down all cel communications accross the US



Ann MSG okay now they're pushing it

Ann MSG interviewing tom clancy

Ann MSG whatEVER

Ann MSG stupid

Tim MSG you think there are more important things going on

Ann MSG Tom Clancy writes FICTION

Tim MSG Harrison Ford will be next

Tim MSG LOL!

Tim MSG yeah but he knows everybody

Ann MSG exactly

Tim MSG one of his books is eerrilly similar to this though, did you read that one?

Ann MSG nope

Tim MSG yeah a Japanse pilot hijacks a plane and crashes it into the Capitol and kills everyone

Ann MSG no kidding

Ann MSG yikes

Tim MSG yeah , guess that is why

Ann MSG more ihnfo colming

Tim MSG ok

Ann MSG about the other United flight

Tim MSG yeh I can hear it now

Ann MSG 2nd plane has gone down

Ann MSG the one from Boston to LA

Tim MSG where?

Ann MSG didn't say yet

Tim MSG ok I am really lost

Ann MSG what

Tim MSG all the planes I can't keep track of them, don't try to explain it is nuts

Ann MSG plane 1 = WTC

Ann MSG plane 2 = WTC

Ann MSG plane 3 = pentagon

Ann MSG plane t = crashed outside of pitts

Ann MSG plane 5 = crashed who knows where

Ann MSG bottom line,

Tim MSG ok now where is this plane tha just crashed?

Tim MSG ok updates

Tim MSG ok I got ya

Ann MSG someone very smart working with a bunch of people that wanted to kill themselves

Ann MSG for the mission

Ann MSG they have not said where the last commercial jet went down yet

Ann MSG US/Mexican border closed

Ann MSG so if the president and VP get killed can we put Clinton back in office?

Tim MSG lol, I don't think it works that way

Tim MSG Powell would be in charge

Tim MSG whoops speake or the house

Tim MSG then Powell

Ann MSG details deatils

Ann MSG i want clinton back

Tim MSG lol yeah

Ann MSG although powell could kick some major butt

Tim MSG Ken Berger get a hold of ya?

Ann MSG yes

Ann MSG thanks

Tim MSG don't know about that, he let Hussein go

Tim MSG this might have been him

Ann MSG THAT would suck

Tim MSG tell me about it

Ann MSG we should just blow IRAQ off the planet

Tim MSG could be...

Tim MSG should do that with all of them

Ann MSG "sorry we had to kill so many people" but had to do it to get Saddam

Tim MSG if you want to make omletees...

Ann MSG they just talked to the governor

Ann MSG powell is in Peru

Tim MSG what did tha genius have to say?

Ann MSG he is on board his plane

Ann MSG to leave for DC

Tim MSG good luck dude

Ann MSG "this is a terrible tragedy for the democracy but this will not stop the support blah bla
h blah"

Tim MSG think we will stop bombing anywhere? don't think so

Ann MSG blood shortage

Ann MSG in DC

Ann MSG LAX evacuated

Tim MSG no kidding

Ann MSG disney world is being evacuated

Tim MSG lol talking to a guy downtown who was sent home, former Marine, said he's pissed off

Ann MSG go find out who did this and kill them, k?

Ann MSG do you have military friends with access to planes?

Tim MSG yeah, a few times over

Tim MSG lol, not anymore

Ann MSG bummer

Tim MSG believe me I know a lot of pissed off Jarheads right now that are just itching to go..

Ann MSG a witness is talking about a woman who had a baby on the street and people were stampedin
g it

Ann MSG so she and another dude jumped on the baby and pushed it by a building

Tim MSG where was this? NYC?

Ann MSG yes

Tim MSG baby live?

Ann MSG outside the WTC

Ann MSG yes

Tim MSG well that is good

Ann MSG european officials saying "act of war by madmen"

Ann MSG no kidding

Tim MSG lol boneheads

Ann MSG family members are starting to show up at the airport

Tim MSG Palastians are celebrating

Ann MSG there is a gas leak in NYC

Tim MSG no surpise there

Tim MSG bet there are a bunch of them

Ann MSG they're also afraid another building may fall

Tim MSG geez, how many others are on fire?

Ann MSG it's actually cuz of debris that fell from one of the towers that hit another bldg

Ann MSG hit the other bldg

Tim MSG great

Tim MSG be back in a bit going to lunch

Ann MSG bush not returning to washington

Ann MSG don't know where he'll go instead

Ann MSG afghanistan is having a conf call when yuou get back

Ann MSG they think it was Bin Laden

Ann MSG like you said

Ann MSG oh apparently we're blaming the afghanies for harboring Bin laden even though he is dange
rous

Tim MSG ok back

Ann MSG all flights are now accounted for

Tim MSG ok that is good

Ann MSG FBI reports no claims of responsibility

Tim MSG I heard that the Taliban condemed the attack and did not do it????

Ann MSG true

Ann MSG but the US seems to be attacking them for letting Bin live there

Tim MSG looking at still pics from a Boston paper, un beleivable

Tim MSG lookst like a volacanic eruption, people covered with ash

Ann MSG yup

Ann MSG there are papers and desk things everywehre

Tim MSG undoubtely bodies too

Ann MSG gross

Ann MSG disgusting

Tim MSG geez I am thinking of going home

Ann MSG witness talking about the first crash

Ann MSG was in the basement

Ann MSG see ya

Ann MSG i'm staying here

Tim MSG yeh haven't left yet though

Ann MSG hubby wants me to stay home

Tim MSG yeah

Tim MSG I would

Ann MSG he worries aboutt his kind of stuff

Ann MSG i even have roses waiting for me at the front desk!

Tim MSG so do I, and it is modified about ten thousand times when you have kids

Tim MSG well that was nice

Ann MSG our anniversary was yesterday but the flowers didn't come on time

Ann MSG :(

Ann MSG they're there today

Ann MSG the witness said he was in the basement and there were people trapped in the elevator tha
t was filling up with water

Ann MSG they broke it open and got the people out

Tim MSG WOW! lucky bastards

Ann MSG no kidding

Tim MSG HA HE, guess what today is for me

Ann MSG they got up to the 39th floor when the 65th floor collapsed

Tim MSG oh man

Ann MSG what is today for you

Tim MSG My anniversary at Hewitt.

Ann MSG no kidding?

Tim MSG Guess it will be a memorable one

Ann MSG congratulations!

Ann MSG it is 9/11

Ann MSG 9-1-1

Tim MSG yeah, wish I could skip it though, seems kind of ominous

Ann MSG vested?

Ann MSG %

Tim MSG yeah they were saying that they used American and United planes too

Tim MSG no my one year

Ann MSG that's still 20%

Ann MSG no?

Ann MSG or did they move it to 2 years

Tim MSG don't know

Ann MSG you're 20%

Tim MSG ain't 100% so I am still sticking around

Ann MSG by the way, i didn't think you were serious about palastine

Ann MSG celebrating

Ann MSG apparently you were serious...

Tim MSG got two years on my contract then I am up for free agency

Tim MSG yeah

Tim MSG about Palastine

Ann MSG gotcha

Tim MSG hehe

Tim MSG I will be renogotiating at that time, aren't you my agent now?

Ann MSG they stopped a dude in Seattle with bombs

Ann MSG closed the needle

Tim MSG wow really!

Tim MSG we heard a report about a bomb in a school somewhere

Ann MSG i can't keep track

Ann MSG how's everyone on the team doing?

Tim MSG yeah it is nuts

Tim MSG well some people are actully working

Ann MSG i talked to Amy

Ann MSG it sounded like she was working

Ann MSG dharmesh is working

Ann MSG i, on the other hand, am not so much

Ann MSG a little PTO today...

Tim MSG yeeah I am trying to write SAS code but it is kind hard to concentrate

Ann MSG all baseball games cancelled today

Tim MSG oh that's it now I'm really pissed

Tim MSG any updates?

Ann MSG every domestic aircraft is grounded

Ann MSG never happened before

Ann MSG nothing is new

Ann MSG just talking about the flight patterns and all that

Tim MSG oh

Tim MSG looking at some pics, unbelievable

Ann MSG they're not doing any people searches until they know they buildings are safe

they want to get the black boxes obviousy...



Ann MSG from the planes

Tim MSG yeah, might be awhile though

Ann MSG oh yea

Ann MSG i've got to run out for a second

Ann MSG apparently the boxes have tracking devices on them

Tim MSG yeah I have trainig at 2 till 4 then I am gong to split

Ann MSG k

Tim MSG talk to you tomorow then

Ann MSG i'm going to stay here

Ann MSG k

Tim MSG later