OT: 8 years ago this morning....
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The previous Saturday, I was in Seattle and saw the Wolverines lose a close game to the Washington Huskies. Monday was a beautiful sunny day, I was on my way home from work with the top down, basking in the sun, still thinking about the blocked field goal which lead to the collapse the previous Saturday. The radio was tuned to NPR, and I recall a story about an Afghan warlord who was the victim of a suicide bomber posing as a journalist. I thought to myself, "How unfortunate for the poeple in that part of the world. I'm glad that kind of turmoil is so far away."
The next morning, Sept. 11, our clock radio clicked on with a story about a plane hitting the World Trade Center. We have a group of buildings in Portland called the World Trade Center, so at first I wasn't sure what/where this had happened. The a commentator mentioned the city bound lanes on the Tri-Borough bridge were being closed, and I knew that the WTC inquestion was in New York City, where our son was in his first full week of class. We rushed downstairs to turn on the TV, all long distance telephone circuits were busy, we couldn't reach our son by phone. I'll never forget hearing a second plane had struck the South Tower, the instant realization that this was not a horrible accident, but a diabolical act of terrorism. We spent a frantic half hour, until our son logged onto IM and let us know he was fine, had been in Calc class at the time.
Thanks to all for sharing your stories about that day.
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