When the first report came in on 9/11, I thought of this event. And thought the first crash was an accident.
Then came the report of the second.
I thought about the B-25 incident on 9/11 as well but that was not the first event that came to mind. I recall the morning of 9/11 vividly.
I was in my youngest son’s bedroom helping get him ready for school when my wife came in and said “A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.” The words out of my mouth were “What do those people have against those buildings?” My first thought was of the 1993 plot to blow up the World Trade Center by moslem terrorists.
I knew immediately what it was, and who was behind it. And when the second plane crashed, I was not only shocked and angered, but also marveled at the operation the terrorists had just pulled off. My response to the second plane was “You sons of bitches...”
You read my mind. I started reading about this and the story of the woman who was in the elevator. The plane cut the cables and the lady survived the fall and was in a body cast for more than a year.
I did too. Someone came into my office and said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and I immediately thought about this incident. I had no grasp of how bad it was at that point.