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Twelve Years Ago

September 11, 2012 21:43:21.951

I remember my wife calling me up to the bedroom - I was downstairs getting breakfast - the news was showing the first tower smoking, when bam - the second plane hit. The news anchor thought it was a small plane, but I fly a lot - I knew it was no small plane right off. The rest of the day was spent watching the news coverage, and getting my (then very young) daughter from school. Not that I thought she was in any danger, it's just that every other kid was being picked up, and the school wasn't telling the kids anything. My wife and I called the school, and ended up getting her simply so that she wouldn't keep wondering what the heck was going on. A lot has changed since then, but it's worth remembering where you were and what you were doing when all that went down.

posted by James Robertson

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