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I was in Ottawa and still in the military - National Defence Medical CentreWhere were you?
Don't know how I missed you're from Fayetteville. We were practically neighbors! I spent a lot of time around Tahlequah and Stillwell over the years. Also Ft Smith, Hot Springs and Siloam Springs. I've been to Fayetteville a lot too. Also used to go up to Bentonville to do training for Wal Mart employees on various IT topics. Small world.I had worked a 12-hour shift the night before at the PD, 2pm to 2am. Hadn't went to sleep until about 5am that morning. Shift supervisor called as soon as the things started happening. The Chief called an "all hands on deck" type of order so everyone reported to the station. As I was getting dressed I watched the second hit on the towers and I remember I had been carrying my boots from the closet to put them on and just dropped them on the floor, and stared for a few minutes before getting ready, almost putting my boots on the wrong feet because I couldn't concentrate. When I got to the PD it was chilling to see all the SWAT guys getting ready just in case. No one was talking much, which was weird for the PD. Usually the minute you hit the door someone was making fun of you or joking around, but that day it was all business.
I walked into the 911 center and the boards were lit up across the screen with fights at gas stations, people freaking out about real or imagined aircraft overhead, it was nuts. There were all kinds of crazy calls that day/night. One particular one I remember is a 911 call in which a group of guys were out in the parking lot of an apartment complex near the U of A campus cheering and holding up the flag of a certain foreign country telling everyone it was a "great day". A guy had called 911 because this group of 5-6 guys was being quickly surrounded by the rest of the members of the apartment complex, passers-by and several others. This much larger group was not happy and it quickly escalated but stopped just short of all the residents beating the crap out of the other group. I never really understood why you'd want to stand out in front of a 100 or more people on a horrific day like that and shove it in their faces. There were a bunch of fist fights at gas stations all that day and night also. Someone got the bright idea of jacking up the gas prices all around the city and pretty soon gas was going for $5.00 a gallon. People were getting into fights because other motorists were filling up their tanks instead of just buying a certain amount and everyone behind them began to get scared the pumps were going to run dry. I heard later on that several gas stations were fined by the AR Attorney General's office for price gouging.
I also remember watching F-16 Falcons on CAP overhead that afternoon/evening from the Fort Smith Air National Guard unit 50 miles south of us. For some reason, that was the eeriest part of the whole day. I heard later from one of our guys who was in the AR National Guard that said jets were patrolling fully armed with air-to-air missiles.
Don't know how I missed you're from Fayetteville. We were practically neighbors! I spent a lot of time around Tahlequah and Stillwell over the years. Also Ft Smith, Hot Springs and Siloam Springs. I've been to Fayetteville a lot too. Also used to go up to Bentonville to do training for Wal Mart employees on various IT topics. Small world.
Don't know how I missed you're from Fayetteville. We were practically neighbors! I spent a lot of time around Tahlequah and Stillwell over the years. Also Ft Smith, Hot Springs and Siloam Springs. I've been to Fayetteville a lot too. Also used to go up to Bentonville to do training for Wal Mart employees on various IT topics. Small world.
Don't know how I missed you're from Fayetteville. We were practically neighbors! I spent a lot of time around Tahlequah and Stillwell over the years. Also Ft Smith, Hot Springs and Siloam Springs. I've been to Fayetteville a lot too. Also used to go up to Bentonville to do training for Wal Mart employees on various IT topics. Small world.
We were just passing through Fayetteville 2 weeks ago on our way to SC and stopped there for lunch. Nice little place.
I was actually born in Berkeley, CA, but my mom is originally from Oklahoma and we moved there when I was around 5 or 6 (we went back and forth a couple time during that year; 76-77). We first lived in Bartlesville and Nowata, before moving to my mom's home town of Pawhuska. We lived there until 1984 and then moved to Skiatook. From there I lived in and around Tulsa until 2003 when we moved to Florida. I had a lot of friends that attended NSU and also other who just live in that area (Sallisaw, too), and some up at NEO in Miami, OK.Definitely. I'm originally from about 60 miles south of Hot Springs, a very small town no one has heard of and probably will never hear of..lol, Wal-Mart is big business around here for sure. Been to Tahlequah and Stillwell both several times for training of one sort or another and I used to go shoot with a friend of mine right on the Arkansas/Oklahoma border near Westville, OK. You from that area or just lived there previously? I saw you live in FL currently.