[newzjunkey]

Two freepers were lost that day. One on the pentagon flight and one at the towers. I was talking to a friend in Sydney when the first tower was struck and their ABC broke in with the news. Another friend of mine worked at Merrill Lynch but missed work that day to look after his fiancé. I joined the live thread on FR as I often did in those days.

I’ve been to the Pentagon and also W’s presidential library which has a piece of one of the towers to pay my respects. I haven’t made it to New York.

[mware]

One of my colleagues at the school where I taught lost her nephew. He worked for Morgan Stanley. The family did not receive info on his fate until later in the afternoon when they received a call from London. He was on the phone with a London Office when the first plane hit. They told the family there was a scream on the line and then it went dead. Ironically his brother was a state trooper and the family always feared for his safety.