[TADSLOS]

I was sitting at my desk at Fort Hood working on some project as a new hire contractor. I had just retired from the Army three months earlier. A coworker sitting behind me mentioned that an aircraft had just hit the WTC. I went downstairs to the conference room to turn FNC on the big screen.

There were already a half dozen officers and NCOs there watching the attack unfold. We all watched the second tower get hit. A very surreal and sobering moment that I'll never forget.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I actually missed all the major stuff happening live on TV that morning. When the 1st plane hit, I was walking with some co-workers outside to get to our weekly status meeting at 9 (yes, east coast). We had our meeting. Disrupted a bit by 1 co-worker who came back in from bathroom break at 10 and told us his wife texted him on Blackberry that planes had hit the WTC and Pentagon.

So our super dismissed the meeting and we all went to a drafter admin who had a small TV going. Must’ve just missed the 1st collapse. I knew right away we had Moslems on our hands. A co-worker of a certain persuasion argued we never know who it could be - they could be whites. Yeah, right. Sorry, wrong!