On 9/11, and for 11 yeas afterwards, I worked about 100 yards from NSA’s first high-rise building off Fort Meade, just just a freeway overpass away from the campus.
I had just arrived at work when someone told me about the first plane. I thought it was just another lost aircraft, like in 1942(?)
When the second aircraft hit, everyone immediately said terrorism. When the 3rd aircraft hit the Pentagon, the NSA director ordered an immediate evacuation by all NSA contractors in the region. It took me 3 hours to get home, just 22 miles away.
There were more than 25,000 NSA employees on Fort Meade at that time.
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