9-11 D-Guard Giveaway! Winner: ESEESTATIC

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THE WINNER IS ESEESTATIC! thank you everyone for your stories and entries.

In honor of Patriots Day, September Eleventh, I am doing a giveaway for a custom red, white and blue D-guard.

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To enter:

1- Tell where you were/what you were doing when you heard about the tragedy.

2- Post a picture of the knife you'll be putting the prize on.

3- Guess a 3 digit number. A random number generator will choose the winner on the 10th anniversary Sunday night, September 11th 2011.

Firefighters, military, and police can guess 2 numbers :thumbup: Thank you all for your service.

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NEVER FORGET!
 
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I was in college at the time, just arriving to class when I saw that we were watching a movie for class, or so I thought.

Everyone was surrounding the TV and a girl was sobbing her eyes out. Just as I arrived, the second plane hit. It was possibly the most memorable experience of my life; realizing that it wasn't a movie and that we we under attack. It turns out that the crying girl's father was on the first flight that hit the towers. Since I lived so close to NYC, and many of my classmates were from there, I knew a lot of people who were affected by the attacks. One woman I know walked through the towers minutes before the attack. A friend of mine's dad worked in the towers and stayed home sick that day. There are so many other stories like that it's amazing.

My father worked at the world trade center when the first bomb went off years before. He stayed there until December 2000 when he had a STEMI (S T Segment Myocardial Infarction, in laymans a very sever heart attack.) He survived the heart attack, and subsequently quit the job and took one closer to home. I like to think that ironically the heart attack saved my father's life, as he still would've been there if he didn't have the heart attack. He's a great man and I am forever grateful for the fact that he left.

The image of that second plane hitting that building is one that I will never forget.

I am an Paramedic now (non-practicing but licensed,) but wasn't back then. At the time, I lived in Connecticut just minutes away from the NY border. Had I been licensed as a Paramedic at the time, there is no doubt in my mind I would've gone down to help. My firefighter/EMT cousin did, and I have great respect for him for doing so. He made it back alive, but doesn't like to talk about what he did and saw.

The D-Guard will go on my SFNO LE:
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I'll go with #137, my new JYD number.

Thanks for this giveaway. That is an awesome D-Guard by the way. If I win, I will wear it proudly, and pass it on with the knife if I ever have to let it go.
 
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What a great gesture!

I was in college. Heard about it right as I was getting back from philosophy.

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Here's what I'd put it on. And I'll go with 761.

Thanks!
 
I was on the bus when the tragedy happened , everybody was speechless.
this is what i put on it


I am in the military , i can prove it. my numbers will be 124 568
 
Dave,

Awsome giveaway.
I already go my free one so will let anyone in the military have my guess.

I was at home strictly by accident and should have been in the air headed to Chicago that AM.
Got about 20 calls from friends & family checking to see where I was.
 
drbarnes, this is very cool of you to do, man. :thumbup: ...And what a sweet D-guard!

If you don't mind, I'm going to quote part of an an old post of mine...
I was at home and just waking up when the phone rang repeatedly. Missed the call, so I got up, went to the kitchen to start coffee, and turned on CNN. Maybe I hadn't fully awakened yet, because I had a hard time registering what I was seeing until the second plane hit the towers. I remembering standing in the kitchen in a daze until the towers began to fall. Reports were free flowing, each worse than the last, and after I learned that the Pentagon had been hit as well, the woman who I was dating at that time called, cheery and apparently oblivious to the whole nightmare... I had to calm myself and ask her as quietly as I could muster if she'd talked to her brother that day. She responded that she hadn't, why do I ask? ...It was very hard to break the news to her that we'd been attacked, and in addition to the Towers, the Pentagon where her brother was stationed was also hit by a commercial plane hijacked for destruction. She was stunned, and hung up with me to find him. Completely out of character, he had taken a personal leave to enjoy the day with his family... A beautiful day, if you recall, outside of the horror... Still strikes me how odd something so freaking terrible could happen on such a perfect day, weatherwise... His office was on that side, but a ring or 2 further in, so I believe that he might have survived regardless, but last I heard (years), he still feels very guilty for not being there... snip


If I were to win and actually accept this beautiful D-guard, it would have to go on this custom...
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...But if my number hits, I'd like you to award it to the first responder or US Military enlisted person who's post is closest to mine, please. :)

Let's go for... 207


Thank you for the GAW! :thumbup:
 
Not an entry, because I don't need the D guard.

But I was listening to my Radio alarm, and it said that a plane hit the world trade center tower. I thought some knuckle head crashed his Cessna or something. So I went out and watched the news. I was watching when the 2nd plane hit!

I was flabbergasted. Like some one punched me in the guts!

I had a work meeting that day, so I went to work, and took my gun, spare mags, and more ammo in the trunk! I was in Utah, (very unlikely for any type of attack there, but I sure was thinking about it).

I remember my first thought was to put gas in all my vehicles, and check my stock of basic supplies (water, and food storage, and fuel for my coleman stove).

As a kid who literally grew up watching Red Dawn, I was definitely thinking those types of thoughts (even though I was pretty sure it was irrational).

Especially with the Pentagon getting hit, and not knowing what other planes were still up in the air!


I kind of understand how the US felt when Pearl Harbor happened!
 
I was watching a DVD when a friend called and told me to put on the news, worried that my son might be at the Pentagon (he wasn't!).
I would like the number 858 for your very generous offer.

This custom shop knife that I bought from Jerry at Blade 08' would proudly wear the guard (beautiful work by the way!

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This was my first Busse Custom and is special to me!
 
I was conducting a review session on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to 2nd-year medical students. One student walked in and said something off-the-cuff about a plane flying into the WTC. After the session, I spent the rest of the day watching the news alone on a TV I kept at work.

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#571
 
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Not an entry as I don't have any knives that could use a D-guard.

I was in high school walking between classes when I heard about a plane crash in NYC. Got to my next class and a TV was turned on which was weird. I sat down and nobody was saying anything, and after a few minutes we all watched the second plane hit.

Had a bit of a local scare later when a military jet flew over and people heard the sonic boom and coincidentally a fire had started in a field near our city's VA hospital. Lots of panic over that, and long lines for $5 gas.
 
I was in high school taking a standardized test, when the teacher stopped us and turned on the news, the 2nd plane had just hit. After school that day I stopped at the gas station to fill up and it took 1.5 hours to get gas at $4.50 a gallon.

It is a day that I will never forget.
 
Eseestatic wins the D-guard, congrats! and thank you to everyone who entered and shared their stories!
 
David,

Great contest:thumbup: Congrats to the winner:)

XOXO
Amy-0
 
Thanks Amy-O!! I wish I had known that someone made D-Guards and lanyards like this sooner! They look awesome!
 
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