Posted on 03/20/2003 3:12:02 PM PST by EveningStar
It was a beautiful, clear-severe, late summer morning. Autumn was in the air and the forest’s perfume surrounded me as it came in on the breeze off the deck through the open office door. I was working here at the keyboard, like so many other mornings. The phone rang; it was my daughter. She said, “Turn on the local (NYC) channel. Someone has flown a plane into the World Trade Center tower.” I switched channels on the little office telly and the world came to a halt as I watched smoke pouring from the Tower.
Suddenly I heard myself say to her: “What is that plane doing so close to…” as the next plane flew right into the second Tower. When the second plane hit, there was no doubt in our minds it was terror, the second incident at the WTC since the first in 1993 and this one was so much more devastating. I stayed on the phone as we were glued to the television screen, and we watched in horror as New York City’s famous skyline changed before our eyes. We never expected the towers to fall, but they did, as though demolitionists had expertly placed charges. I have nothing to indicate they weren’t set, as years passed after the first WTC bombing, which our then corrupt antiAmerican co-presidents did nothing to stop the planning and assaults on our home territory.
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