[Moose4]

I was at my job in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, just sitting in my cube, when I overheard one of the ladies in the Operations department telling my next-cube neighbor that she'd heard that "two planes had hit the World Trade Center." I figured that there had been a mid-air and the wreckage had fallen and hit the WTC, a terrorist attack never occurred to me.

So I swung around to my computer and tried to get on the Internet. CNN.com, nada. MSNBC.com, timeout. Foxnews.com, timeout. In desperation, I tried freerepublic.com--which is normally blocked by our Internet filtering software for some reason. I got right through, and was able to keep up with the events of the day through threads here on FR, and continuous coverage from local radio stations.

The sick irony? 11 September 2001 was my thirty-fifth birthday. Needless to say, my wife and I didn't go out to celebrate that night. We finally had my birthday dinner this past Wednesday.

}:-)4

[Burkeman1]

Terrible- I am sorry- How can you ever celebrate agian without remebering? My prayers are with you.