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askye at 12:49pm on 11/09/2006
askye at 12:49pm on 11/09/2006Five years ago I called in sick to work. I was thinking about not even turning on the computer or the tv and just reading. Instead when I passed by the tv I couldn't resist and flipped it on. It was set to USA and I saw a partially collapsed sky scraper and a burning skyscraper and it looked like one of those cheesy "Live News Report" things on a movie so my first thought was "What kind of crappy movie is this???" And flipped the channel.
It was on every channel and that's whe I stopped and watched. It was so hard to process. It was unbelievable. I kept thinking "This is a Tom Clancy novel! " esp. when the Pentagon was hit. I also remember watching people in front of the Pentagon being interviewed and thinking "what if there are men with guns and they start shooting the people evacuating." Planes flew into the WTC it didn't seem so unreasonable to think that maybe there would be snipers.
I spent most of the day on WX talking to the buffistas. Getting reports and head counts at some point my grandma called and I went to her house.
There was so much going on and eventually it was hard to watch the news coverage that was on every channel. I ended up not watching the special that aired, because I was so overloaded and feeling a bit cynical about celeberties and musical guests. I wish I had watched it now though.
It was on every channel and that's whe I stopped and watched. It was so hard to process. It was unbelievable. I kept thinking "This is a Tom Clancy novel! " esp. when the Pentagon was hit. I also remember watching people in front of the Pentagon being interviewed and thinking "what if there are men with guns and they start shooting the people evacuating." Planes flew into the WTC it didn't seem so unreasonable to think that maybe there would be snipers.
I spent most of the day on WX talking to the buffistas. Getting reports and head counts at some point my grandma called and I went to her house.
There was so much going on and eventually it was hard to watch the news coverage that was on every channel. I ended up not watching the special that aired, because I was so overloaded and feeling a bit cynical about celeberties and musical guests. I wish I had watched it now though.