[Milsurplus] Moment of silence, 20 September 2001

[Gene Smar]

I've been out of town with little time to reply but here's my 
contribution to the 9/11/2001 recollections:

I was working from home and monitoring the nets on 40M when a call came 
through.  The Ham in NJ was asking if someone could make a call to 
Rockville, MD.  I live there, so I took the info.  A woman in NJ had 
been trying to call her fiance' who works at the Pentagon but lives in 
Rockville.  All LD lines between NYC area and DC were choked with 
traffic and she was unable to make a call to see if he was alright.  I 
took the local number from the NJ Ham and called it.  The fiance' 
answered.  He had skipped going in to work at the Pentagon that 
morning.  I explained that his fiance' in NJ had been trying to call and 
was worried about him.  He told me to tell her that he was fine and 
would call her later that evening, presumably when the phones lines were 
open again.  I got back on 40M and passed the message on to the NJ Ham.  
Half an hour later he called me again on the net freq and told me the 
woman was relieved and grateful to hear from her fiance'.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
Rockville, MD


On 9/11/2021 7:05 PM, n2lxm at juno.com wrote:
> 
> Went to the docks in Highlands New Jersey. Were I helped the Red Cross 
> off load boats bring Civilians from lower Manhattan. There was a small 
> Ceremony. Many God Bless everyone of those Boat Captains, Without them 
> we may have lost more then we did.
> We Must Never Forget
>
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