September 11, 2001
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sinanjuMy wife woke me with the words, "we're at war."
She told me that planes had flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and that one of the two towers had collapsed. I found it hard to believe, but I couldn't doubt it. I got up, watched the television for a couple of minutes, then went to take a shower. By the time I was done my wife told me that the second tower had collapsed. I finished dressing and watched the news--I saw the planes hitting the tower, and film of the towers collapsing. Saw it over and over, of course.
We went to work as usual, though I don't know how much anyone got done that day. We listened to the radio, watched television or surfed the net for whatever news we could find. Nobody knew much at first, of course. Rumors ran rampant. The talking heads on tv and radio yammered on non-stop even when they had nothing to say. The film footage of the planes flying into the WTC and the towers collapsing were aired over and over and over again.
I didn't lose anyone in the attacks on the WTC or the Pentagon, nor Flight 93. If anyone I know lost anyone close, I don't remember it. I know some people who knew people who did. My office was in the middle of the annual fundraising campaign, and some of the corporations we work with had offices in the WTC in New York, so I knew of a lot people who knew people who died that day. But fortunately for me, I didn't experience it directly.
Not a terribly dramatic tale, I suppose. But that's my experience of that day.
She told me that planes had flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and that one of the two towers had collapsed. I found it hard to believe, but I couldn't doubt it. I got up, watched the television for a couple of minutes, then went to take a shower. By the time I was done my wife told me that the second tower had collapsed. I finished dressing and watched the news--I saw the planes hitting the tower, and film of the towers collapsing. Saw it over and over, of course.
We went to work as usual, though I don't know how much anyone got done that day. We listened to the radio, watched television or surfed the net for whatever news we could find. Nobody knew much at first, of course. Rumors ran rampant. The talking heads on tv and radio yammered on non-stop even when they had nothing to say. The film footage of the planes flying into the WTC and the towers collapsing were aired over and over and over again.
I didn't lose anyone in the attacks on the WTC or the Pentagon, nor Flight 93. If anyone I know lost anyone close, I don't remember it. I know some people who knew people who did. My office was in the middle of the annual fundraising campaign, and some of the corporations we work with had offices in the WTC in New York, so I knew of a lot people who knew people who died that day. But fortunately for me, I didn't experience it directly.
Not a terribly dramatic tale, I suppose. But that's my experience of that day.
