Tuesday - September 11, 2007

Where Were You?

There are many good sites doing 9/11 memorials today.  Have a look at:
Kim DuToit
Hot Air

Wizbang is doing a real-time memorial.

So what I want to know from you today is:  Where were you when you realized we were under attack and this was not an accident?

I had a news ticker on the bottom of my screen at work and it came up with a bulletin that a small plane had crashed into the WTC.  I brought up MSNBC.com on my PC and they were doing a live video stream of the tower with smoke billowing out.  The reporters were a little circumspect at first, but as eyewitness reports came in, they said there was the possibility it was actually a jetliner.

I watched and listened while continuing to try and do my work, but that didn’t last long.  Some of my staff came in to watch as well because apparently I was one of the only ones able to get a stream because MSNBC’s servers were being overloaded. (they were one of the few that were still letting you have a live feed without paying)

As we watched, we saw plane number two hit.

That was it.  I declared right there that we were at war.  I called my wife and with a lump in my throat told her what was going on.  The rest of the day was a blur in my memory, except when the towers collapsed.  There were about 15 people in my office as the first one went down.  People screamed and cried right there on the spot, knowing, but not really knowing, what it all meant.  We knew it was bad, worse than we could imagine, and now see in hindsite that it was even worse than that.

What about you?

Posted by Drew458     on 09/11/2007 at 07:53 AM   
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