Dell complaints

[Camarorock]

Ever since the World Trade Towers, this is a special date for me. You see, I brought in a new life far from home among all the death and horror, and with my daughters birthday, it gives me hope. I would like to share that days event while we were stationed at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, England.

It started out as any other day. My oldest daughter attended a British Primary school in Watton, Norfolk, UK. She was 5. I took her there. You know, the British love their garden gnomes and stone statues. My husbnd loved em and we had about 12 of the things lining our driveway. Well, I got out of the car, 9 months and about due and lo and behold, I tripped over one of those things and landed hard on my stomach. So, I call up the OB/GYN clinic and told them. The nurse initally told me its okay. I guess she told a Dr., because she wanted me to come to the hospital immediately. Now, the base is about 8 miles away (RAF Lakenheath). My husband was at work at RAF Mildenhall, which is 15 miles away. So, I arranged for my 1 year old son to go to one of my great Brtish neighbors. I called my husband, and the non com said, take care of wife.
Well, he met me at the hospital, and I told him, pick up Linda, and take here to ballet, as the due date 1 week away, and everything looked good. That is when Hell broke loose.

So, I was bored, being monitored and was watching a very boring movie on Brit TV called Lady Chatterly's Lover. Finally, I turned over to the Armed Forces Network, and they had a CNN feed of a plane hitting the tower. I thought : My god, an airplane hit a building" Then shortly after another one hit. I buzzed the nurse and said hey look. They then tuned in.

Then it all went crazy. The Pentgon was hit. They locked down the base good and proper. Then I started to go into labor. The Air Force considers the hospital to be a wartime asset and they shut that building down also. Well, my hubby got daughter to ballet, and all the bases in the UK was in lockdown, so he took her to our neighbor and then went to me. He was a security policeman, and he managed to get a fellow SP to let him on base. So he got on base, and then was denied entrance to the hospital. Durig this time I went into labor. The SP at the hospital said no one in ,under lockdown for wartime emergency, mission essential personel only. My husband replied he mission essential as wife fixing to have baby. No talk would sway the SP, so he had to go into base housing and find someone to let him use the phone. He called up the floor and a nurse had to leave the delivery to sign him in. Crystal was born 5 minutes later.

Our daughter was unamed for three days. British law is different as there is an amount of time to name your child. We debated. I wanted to first name her Manhatten, but hubby was afraid of possible bad memmories. After all, predicted deaths over 1,000. We were in a dilema, as we felt, with everything that happened, the chosen name of Patricia (our mom in law) was in flux. Everything was hectic on our base. One of the floor nurses suggested Crystal, because with everything happening a bright crystal was being born during the dark day, giving new life spark and hope for the ones missing.

We then chose Crystal (for hope) Patricia (for my mom in law) Charlotte(my sister) Scherich. We felt good about it. Crystal is a child who shines to this day.

When I arrived home at the British village we lived in (East Wretham), our floor was covered by post from our British villagers(they do not have post box, you get mail thru a slot in your door). You see, I was also a barmaid at the local pub, and all the villagers knew me. Brian, the owner of the pub, came over crying about the disaster. The local newspaper mentioned my birth on 9/11.

Let me tell you shock, and horror, and sadness plagued me, which I think induced the labor.
1 month later (October) I was awarded a Suffolk County Constabulary award for saving a man fixing to drown in a 20 ft ditch flipped upside down in a car in 8 feet of water in November 2001 (that is another story, I was scared that I could not help him). The police chief himself had tears and made special remarks during the award. There was a couple that saved a man from a burning vehicle, which I thought was much more significant than what I did. I do have the remains of that photo of award (my newborn was in that photo). (house burned during hurricaine Ivan)

One thing I can tell you all. The British people were affected deeply by what happened. The shock and sadness, and the togatherness was very apparent.

In November we were transferred. When we arrived back in the US there was so many billboards and the feeling of unity in that disaster that made me think I was proud to be an American.
On this aniversary, as with the others, I look at my daughter. She is happy, fresh, and full of life. I am happy with her name, as out of so many deaths on that day, a new one was born. She is a living memory......

Mary

[paul_dellcc]

I'll say only one thing for now, it goes for lame americans who told me on the phone they lost a relatives on 9/11 just to get some sympathy from me and get free stuff.
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I see DELL people!!

If we don't remember our past, we can't understand our present and we can put in danger our future...

[rustyboots]

I was working in DMC on the 3rd Floor Round Rock 2. Spent so much time trying to find a streaming web site. I just gave up and pulled out the TV and plugged it in. No management problems with that. And the phones DIED; no calls for hours.
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rustyboots (i use to slave at dell)

[FallenAngel]

[Camarorock]

I did not say I lost anyone during 9/11. Just brought in a life

[paul_dellcc]

[paul_dellcc]

It's worth it, believe me:

http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331
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I see DELL people!!

If we don't remember our past, we can't understand our present and we can put in danger our future...

[MagiAwen]

I was on my way from a local hospital, having spent most of the night setting up new servers. I was looking forward to sleep when I turned on the radio and caught just a few words before the station went to identification.

All I caught was "trade tower, airplane and crash." I know there was more but that is all I caught. Immediately I was in surreal-land. Did they just say what I think they said?

A minute later I was at home and turned on the television. I could not believe it. I mean..they were talking and I was seeing the footage but...you know...surreal-land.

As they were covering it, I was glued..heart sinking..knot in my stomach and then came the second tower, the second plane.

I never did go to sleep that day and stayed in surreal-land in front of the television and glued to CNN on the computer. I think I stayed in that shocked frame of mind for several days after. Fortunately no one I knew were in the towers and those I know in that area were alright that day.

I guess I don't have a lot more to say on it...I could...but well..I won't.

[Dark Jedi]

I was in my car driving a rural Texas highway between Plainview, Texas and Slaton, Texas to go fix a network for one of the dealerships that the company I worked for owned.

In the area I was in I didn't get a real good radio reception, and those I did get were mostly country music or talk radio, and I wasn't in the mood for NPR (although I do love NPR) so I was listening to a CD when all of the sudden I nearly got run off the road by a crop duster landing in the field adjacent to the road as he came in VERY low over the road. I of course swerved to avoid a collision and stopped the car and jumped out, assuming something was wrong with him because no pilot would do something like that unless there was something wrong or he was an idiot, in which case I was going to rip him a new one.

It was about the time he killed his engine that I noticed another two crop dusters coming down in nearby fields and heard and looked up to see a group of F1-11s screaming by overhead from Cannon AFB in Clovis, NM (the nearest AFB). Something just didn't seem right about seeing a group of them in formation like that, flying lower than normal.

So I approached the pilot that nearly hit me as he was climbing out of his plane and asked him what the deal was. He said he wasn't sure yet, but that he and other pilots had been told over their radios to either land now where they were or they would be shot down and that all traffic was being haulted. I immediately ran back to my car and plugged in my Sprint phone to my computer and logged into CNNs website. It was laggy as can be when it was ordinarily fast enough to watch streaming media on. It took a few minutes to bring up the video, and all this time I am doing this on the hood of my Jeep with now 3 pilots standing over my shoulder watching too. The video came up, was being streamed live, and we watched in horror as the towers fell.

I remember one of the pilots muttering repeatedly under his breath while we watched it unfold, but I don't remember much else because I was in tears. I was frantically trying to do what many other people around the world were doing and trying to reach loved ones that we knew who worked in one of the towers.

When we watched the second tower fall, I felt my stomach drop, and a sense of dread that I wouldn't be able to get Keri, David, Stacy, or Nguyen on the phone. It was two days later that I got the phone calls that I didn't want to hear, about 4 of my friends, people I had known for years, two of the guildmates in my guild on EQ, and 2 of them people I went to grade school, middle school, and high school with... all of them killed during attack.

I completely understand when people say it is dispicable how someone could possibly use "I lost a loved one in the attack" as an excuse for sympathy or trying to get service or something. Being someone who lost 4 people I cared about in the attack, I think if someone had pulled that on me I probably would have been fired for telling them off after kicking their arse.
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I crossed over to the Dark Side... fortunately I brought a flashlight!

[Scoop]

I was working at a bench for the QA group by Line 4 when the events of 9/11 occured.
We'd just recently had a speaker system installed and were listening to the radio...well we weren't due to noise levels from testing...but others on Line 4 came over and asked if we'd heard anything of it.
I went to a cell to hear the radio because there was confusion if one or both towers had been hit. I went to the lunchroom where at the time there was a big screen tv to hear Peter Jennings while seeing both towers blazing.
I was there as were others for quite a bit. There was utter chaos on the floor....I'll never as long as I live forget Jeff Barett, then specialist at eg1 on Line 4 hollering to the builders "Keep building, there ain't nothing you can for those people keep on building.".
A coworker had a child in DC on a field trip, she immediately left after word of the Pentagon.
It's not a day I'm likely to ever forget.
Mary, thank you for your post.
And paul, we'll agree to disagree on "lousy Americans". There are lousy people as well as good in all nations.
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Practice what you preach.

[nashdell]

[delldelldell]

I was in bed with a gf I had back then. Woke up, turned on the tv, nothing was on only the news. So I start watching the news and all I could think was that the Mossad did this. A few days before 911 there was UN talks about putting Israel on the hate crime nation list or something like that. After 911 we forgot about that. Now it looks like it was more of a joint effort between the cia, mossad, and maybe even the mi6. At the very least the mi6 learned from 911 and created their own 711 and again in spain with their 311. I'll never understand the globalist occult fascination with numerology. But then again I'll never understand why some people cant see the connection when they are running drills of the exact same thing at the exact same place at the exact same time. Worse yet they did those "drills" with the same results 3 different times and still some people cant see it.

[Maggie]

I am in NYC. We lost over 100 souls from our neighborhood alone. Ten parishoners from our one Parish, 21 alumni from my son's Catholic HS. Countless alumni from my daughter's Catholic HS.
My husband was working a couple of blocks from the WTC. My cousin across the street. Another cousin was in the towers.
My husband and my cousins made it home, two of our very dear friends did not, along with countless neighbors and acquaintances from the Street and the FDNY, who did not make it home.
For well over a month, we lived beneath an acrid cloud, the smell was overpowering and everyday, we attended wakes and funerals. And everyday the sirens could be heard as new threats were put out against our bridges and tunnels.
Then there was Anthrax and it was real and the doctors and nurses in our neighborhood said, "There is a remedy to this, don't be afraid."
And as NYC is all about neighborhoods, those of us not in the medical field took solace in our trusted neighbors' advice and we stayed on and we are still here and we will not leave as this is our home and no one will ever take it from us.
Has it changed our children, yes it has. Has it changed the adults, yes it has.
BUT this is our town, our country and we ain't running away now or ever.
Maggie

[Camarorock]

It must have been very hard for you! My prayers are with you! Yes, every year I am remeinded of the events, and yet at that time, I look at my daughter, Crystal, and feel hope, togatherness.

Our nation needs to be proud. Our nation needs to be united. I pray for that to hppen, but even after the harmony after 9/11, we are as spilt as ever.

At the end you said it all....neighborhoods, togatherness, trust.

That is what this nation needs.

Now, because of everyone's post, I have more to reflect on then just the birth of my child. I have your stories. and you feelings. As I was not in the US, and base in lockdown, I have never learned true impact. your stoies make my daughter that much more special (if that could ever happen)

God Bless the USA, and God bless you all!

Mary

[Maggie]

It is said that for every life that leaves this world another life is born. I believe in this and so your beautiful child should not feel slighted or fearful in that she was born on 9/11, rather she should know that this was her time to be born. She should not only enjoy the love of her parents but also to revel in life's glory.
So many were lost on that day, I knew many of them, and I can tell you, from knowing them that their greatest joy, their greatest comfort was to know that life would go on through their children and others' children.
It is not a stigma to be born on 9/11. Life was lost on that day and life also began on that day. I feel it is important to remember both.
Best of luck to you and your family.
Maggie from NYC