Posted by
jimmytheleg on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:16:34 AM
Sept 11, 2001, was a warm day in Southeastern New England, and I was home sick from work.
After watching the news for a few minutes around 8:00am I decided to watch "Time Tunnel" on the SciFi Channel. It was the one where they appear at the Alamo just before Santa Anna attacks.
When it was over, just before the top of the hour, I switched it over to the local NBC affiliate to catch the weather, I need to see what the chances were of my getting any rest that day.
The image that was on my tv was hard to understand, but as I watched I found out that a plane had hit the first tower. I continued to watch, hopping to find out what had happened, when...
When that second plane hit, I knew I was not getting any rest that day, my bum leg was going to have to keep hurting.
A short while later as Kattie Couric was talking to Pentagon corespondent Jim Mic (I ain't even going to try to spell that name) and he basically said "the building I'm in just got hit, I'll talk to you guys later" that was when I knew that "it" had really hit the fan.
I then called my buddy capham (although at the time he was just ltham) and spent time getting what info he was able to gather from the web, while I watched the nets and their biased news. The highlight was finally being able to watch Fox News when the local Fox affiliate carried it instead of what ever daytime garbage it usually carried.
I remember having a brief moment of confusion when I was unable to get WPIX 11 out of New York (my cable system carried that channel at the time) until I remembered where their transmitter was located.
Was I mad that the President kept reading to a bunch of little kids? Heck no! What were we supposed to do, just launch a strike against everyone right away out of fear and anger? I was more upset with the Networks whining about not knowing where Airforce One was. WTF, The DC area had just been hit, was the POTUS supposed to just put himself in harms way to make Peter Jennings happy?
The only light hearted moment that I had was later in the day, around 4pm when on the local news a business man who's office is in the building I work in, was interviewed and told the reporter how out of the kindness of his heart he sent his employees home early that day. Now this guy had 2 (TWO) employees working for him and they were both IT guys who usually worked from home on Tuesday. So they were not even in that day. And talking to them later I confirmed that truth.
Five years later, We Must Never Forget!!!!!