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In reply to the discussion: Tell me about your 9/11. [View all]Old Terp
(464 posts)which was right across the highway from Andrews. My desk had a good view for planes taking off and coming in for landing. Don't remember if I saw AF 1 that morning. It was rather quiet. A coworker announced that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. At first we thought that it must have been a small plane (suicide by plane?). We all went in search of news sources on our computers. We saw the second plane strike and knew this was not an accident. I kept watching for the little fighter jets to take off. Silence. The Pentagon was hit. They announced that several other planes were missing. (And while the President was out of town on AF1, it's twin was home at Andrews. Was that also a target?) Then the South Tower fell. I called my husband and said I was going home. As I walked to my car, the little fighter jets screeched by overhead. "Where have you been?" Later, my daughter was stressing out because she couldn't reach us. She was at college in Western Pennsylvania. Not a day I would want to relive. I can say the same thing for the US under Trump. We're 28th!