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Posted: 7/21/2010 9:36:13 PM EDT

[#1]

Thanks for finding that GB!

Never Forget!

Posted: 7/21/2010 9:40:02 PM EDT

[#2]

I really appreciate being able to read that.

Thanks for the work you did to get that back up, GB.

Posted: 7/21/2010 9:43:27 PM EDT

[#3]

man that brings back some memories.. i wasnt here but it was completely surreal all day. we were running around the base installing IPTV for everyoneso they could keep up with CNN and other news....

NEVER FORGET

Posted: 7/21/2010 9:47:10 PM EDT

[#4]

I was only lurking back then, but I had that thread pulled up the entire day. Thanks for the work recovering it GB!

Posted: 7/21/2010 10:43:06 PM EDT

[#5]

That was a good read. Brings back lots of memories of that day.

Posted: 7/21/2010 10:53:29 PM EDT

[#6]

Thank you GOATBOY, outstanding work.

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:18:04 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Thanks for finding that GB!

Never Forget!

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Posted: 7/21/2010 11:20:48 PM EDT

[#8]

GoatBoy, thanks for doing all that.

6

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:31:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Tag for when I have hours to read

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:39:55 PM EDT

[#10]

What about the missing end on the 9/11 thread?

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:44:00 PM EDT

[#11]

jesus all those graphics are HORRIBLE

fuck the old internet

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:48:38 PM EDT

[#12]

That thread is what made me join...

I was a lurker back then and joined a month later.

Posted: 7/21/2010 11:58:33 PM EDT

[#13]

May the innocent rest in peace, may the guilty be justly dealt with.

Posted: 7/22/2010 3:31:04 AM EDT

[#14]

Thanks for finding that, GB.........

..........................man, it seems like yesterday.

Posted: 7/22/2010 5:07:00 AM EDT

[#15]

We had some folding CRKT M6 knives made in very limited numbers with the towers and Never Forgive,Never Forget on them.

Anyone has a picture?

Posted: 7/22/2010 5:39:26 AM EDT

[#16]

I wasn't a member back then

I was driving back down the M6 in the UK when I first heard reports of a "light aircraft" crashing into the WTC. I'd been working on the Foot and Mouth Crisis in the UK at the time, and had been up in Cumbria for a debrief.

By the time I got home there, my neighbour Dave had phoned me and we met on the drive, came into my home and watched the events unfolding........ when it became apparent hat the hole had been made by something much bigger I think we knew it was an attack, then the second plane struck.......

I agree, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 it would be poignant to resurect the threads as a reminder to what happened...... we've all seen the pictures and films, but it's the reactions of ordinary Americans that is most haunting.

Posted: 7/22/2010 12:02:08 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
We had some folding CRKT M6 knives made in very limited numbers with the towers and Never Forgive,Never Forget on them.

Anyone has a picture?

I remember those

I found this on google images

Posted: 7/22/2010 1:33:47 PM EDT

[#18]

Found this little gem in the early archives (I remember that post very well):

Quoted:
Well, I was going to skip over this one until I read through it and really enjoyed a few name histories... Many people have asked and been curious, and I don't even know if my old man (EdSr) knows where the nickname came from, nothing too glamorous, but here's my story... First job out of college I worked as a System Administrator (fixing desktops and servers at Xerox!) and I made a good friend with a guy who was a constant joker. We tortured everyone in the department together and one day I came in and got my share of it. As I walked in every morning, left at night, and pretty much anytime I walked by someone, a modified Beavis and Butthead clip was played.

The original was, "It is in these hills that Juan Valdez and his trusted goat gather coffee beans." Being Spanish and named Juan, a simple change turned Juan Valdez into Juan Avila and everyone took it and ran! I was called the "GoatLover" for a few days and it quickly changed to "GoatMan" (which lasted about a day) and then finally "GoatBoy" was born. They said I was unskilled in the arts of love and was a mere BOY to the other goats. People would buy me any and all products with goat pictures on it or goat in the name... (Bully Hill Wine was a big favorite in the office!) Since then I have used it in everything I do and people seem to find it friendly and humorous. I still have the modified sound clip on a CD somewhere in the house. Not glamorous, but true!!! –– GB

Posted: 7/22/2010 6:30:39 PM EDT

[#19]

Well done!

It's amazing how many of those 2001 posters are still with us after all these many many years.

Posted: 7/22/2010 6:35:18 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Well done!

It's amazing how many of those 2001 posters are still with us after all these many many years.

And it's equally amazing how many of them are NOT, not by their own choice.

Posted: 7/22/2010 6:42:04 PM EDT

[#21]

God Bless you, Goatboy!

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:41:18 PM EDT

[#22]

Did any arfcommers perish in the attacks that day?

Posted: 9/5/2010 3:48:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Did any arfcommers perish in the attacks that day?

None that I know of, but if a random, nondescript member suddenly just stopped posting, would we really notice?

And THANKS Goatboy.

I am so glad you found that backup. I had always thought it was such a shame that threads from back then had been lost, especially the ones around 9/11.

Posted: 9/5/2010 4:00:18 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
I was trying to search the archives for any comments within the GD. I must be doing something wrong since my search does not bring back any results.

It was. I was flipping back and forth between FNC, CNN, and Arfcom.

Posted: 9/6/2010 2:27:12 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Thanks for the hardwork Goatboy.

Posted: 9/6/2010 3:05:12 AM EDT

[#26]

tagg

Posted: 9/6/2010 3:39:30 AM EDT

[#27]

I can't read the thread. I am assuming I need a team membership?

Posted: 9/6/2010 4:50:04 AM EDT

[#28]

Yep, you need to be Team to get into the archives.

Damn, has it really been 9 years?

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Posted: 9/6/2010 5:27:56 AM EDT

[#29]

That day for me like the rest of us here was full of shock and disbelief, I don't think I browsed or posted on Arfcom for a few days afterwards

The facility I work at went on lockdown for a day or two, moron Sheriff didn't offer any assistance to NYPD

A few of my neighbors perished in the tragedy along with a fella I used to work with ( All NYFD )

Posted: 9/6/2010 5:33:15 AM EDT

[#30]

This one?

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=50617

Posted: 9/6/2010 5:33:27 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
We had some folding CRKT M6 knives made in very limited numbers with the towers and Never Forgive,Never Forget on them.

Anyone has a picture?

I remember those

I found this on google images
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6927/212261344f888e2ad6a8822.jpg

I had one of those, and put it up for auction on this site as a part of the fund raising for ETH's daughter.

ETA:

Posted: 9/6/2010 5:35:07 AM EDT

[#32]

Arfcom was around. Unfortunately I got to see that shit up close and personal

Never forget

RIP: Daniel Afflito
We miss ya Brother.

Posted: 9/6/2010 5:42:28 AM EDT

[#33]

I see I posted on that thread. One of my memories of that day was leaving work early shortly after I posted on Page 3. A man was leaving just before me. His hand was shaking so bad, he dropped his card while trying to swipe the gate.

It was a sad day, and a day of great anger. I think we need to recapture some of that anger as the job is far from finished.

Posted: 9/10/2010 11:29:54 AM EDT

[#34]

WOW, the memories. I had just come back on light duty after being injured. I was about to get married. It’s amazing the things we forget until something sparks them.

Thank you Goat Boy!

Posted: 9/10/2010 11:51:41 AM EDT

[#35]

Wow. Reading that thread gives me the chills. Thanks for finding this important piece of history.

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