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Memories of 9-11

Do you remember where you were, or what you were doing, when the 9-11 attacks occured?  What were your first thoughts? How has life changed for us as a county, and a nation, since that fateful day?

Leave your thoughts, memories, or comments here, or send us an email to news@hamptoncountyguardian.com, so we can share them with the rest of the community online and publish them in The Guardian.

God bless America, our military, our emergency responders, and our fallen. And may we never forget. 

9/11.....

I was working as the asst. superintendent for Crosswinds Golf Course at the airport in Savannah. I was in the clubhouse when it came on T.V. and couldn't believe it at first. When we realized it was real I headed back to the maintenance shop which was near the end of the Savannah International Airport runway. The gold course was in the glide path and the jets would blow the lims on the trees back and forth as they would come in to land. We sat around the radio in the shop all day and listened to what was going on. When the FAA sent out a grounding of all flights the sky around us soon became full of airplanes of all shapes and sizes. Every 5 minutes a jet was landing from every airline imaginable. All commercial flights were sent to the nearest airport that could handle the planes so of course Savannah got more than its share. I think by the time the last flight came in hours later we had counted over 30 different airlines. It was a day that changed us forever.