Sept. 11 and another rally
Getting ready for work Thursday and driving into the city, I listened as television and radio stations replayed the news – verbatim – of Sept. 11, 2001.
At 8:45 a.m. on that crystal clear Tuesday morning 13 years ago, an American Airlines Boeing 767 carrying 20,000 gallons of jet fuel rammed straight into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
That year, I was also behind the wheel of a car. I was south of Atlanta, en route to Florida to attend a newspaper seminar. My husband called me on my cell phone to tell me about it.
My first response was, “Didn’t we just see this in some movie, recently?” As we hung up, I turned on my radio and kept driving. Less than 20 minutes later I listened as a horrified news announcer said a second plane had just sliced into the south tower. Suddenly it became quite clear that the first tragedy was no fluke. Our country was under attack.