9/11
11. Sep, 2009 
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I can’t think of any better way to remember/commemorate this event than to point you all to Fred Kiesche’s piece – here.
Give it a read for some insight into the lingering effects of that day.
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My own experience of that day is this:
I was in Florida and just arriving at work a few minutes after the first plane impacted. Everything stopped as we watched the coverage.
The cameras were focused on the rescue operations as it was reported that a second plane was entering the area.
I immediately felt sick to my stomach, realizing that the second attack had been timed to allow first responders to arrive on the scene. I was so overwhelmed that I had to sit down – but didn’t have enough time to explain to my co-workers why I was so upset before the second plane hit.
That is the moment that stays with me.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY FEED
I was on my way to work in Washington, D.C., stuck in traffic on I-395 trying to get onto Washington Blvd, and I saw the plane hit the Pentagon. It was a paralyzing moment. Shock, disbelief. But the most sickening thing was the smell of burning fuel coming toward us from the Pentagon. I can’t believe there are some people, such as the “Truthers,” who think it really didn’t happen or that it was a missile or bombs. For months I could not hear a jet flying overhead without a mixture of fear and anger.
I got to work at 7:00 am Pacific time. People said something had happened, there was an attack. No one knew much, reports were scrambled and contradictory, and this was 10:00 in NY. We were told we’d be informed if there was anything we needed to know, meanwhile keep working. I was in meetings most of the day and it wasn’t until I got home at 5:30 (8:30 pm Eastern time) that I even knew what had happened. But by then the news people had apparently gotten pretty tired of the same story and pictures over and over all day, so the coverage was very sketchy.
I didn’t see the footage of the planes striking the towers, or the collapsing buildings until several days later in a 1-hour special, and it was a year until I saw the Pentagon and PA pictures.
Yep, when a story is 6 hours old or more, you either analyze it to death or toss it aside…