City of Charlotte, NC Community Safety, 11 Sep 2015

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From YouTube: 9/11 CMPD & CFD Remembrance

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The events of 9/11 have left memories for everyone. These are the memories and lasting impressions from City of Charlotte employees.

A

9-11 was a terrible tragedy, I'm sure everybody knows where they were and what they were doing when they saw the first video images of the plane in New York City I was.

B

Pleased to offer than New York City uh from 95 to 2002 with the NYPD and was there for 911 during.

C

911 I was serving as a National Guardsman in the Air Force and.

B

Started off, I was working on election Duty in a church in the Bronx and one gentleman came on and then he said of a plane hit the World Trade Center and we were like. uh We didn't believe him.

C

Well, my first experience finding out that the United States had come under a terrorist attack was when I had discovered that the tower the first tower I've been hit by a plane. You know.

B

City was in dismay and panic everywhere. We.

C

Were actually told by our supervision, we were going to be getting some casualties. We prepared for a mass casualty incident, worked.

B

Around the clock for many days slept three four hours. I went back to work the next day. You see how big the devastation was. We like to me. We like pretty much the whole downtown. Charlotte would be you know, coveting, you know messed up and you know 2,600 people, it's like we'd, be the whole Charlotte, Police, Department, plus another 800 people. Every officer would be gone, say things that stand out to me from that day.

B

Besides, just what I saw was what I heard you know initially, I couldn't respond directly there, but I heard or offices that I know calling for help. They were trapped and.

B

Not being able to get to them stands out pretty heavy. My.

C

Experience with 911 I would say, has changed me I think just like most Americans, it kind of was an eye-opener. You know you've heard of other terrorist attacks in other countries and just never thought it would come here. I can't.

B

Watch anything about it and even talking here's rough.

B

B

Hope it doesn't happen again. We.

C

Were able to overcome and not only rebuild what we've done already build, what we've had, but actually show that we can come together as a nation and withstand any struggle and that no matter what that we can do it over and over and over again, and that there are good people in this nation.

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