Cafeoutdoors.com: Where were you when you heard thirteen years ago?

I was on my way to work - heard it about the first plane on the radio.....got to work and turned the television on and saw the second plane go into the second tower and the reports come in about the Pentagon and the one that crashed.

We had just watched countless police officers, firefighters and other emergency service personnel run into the towers and looked at each other knowing they would probably never come out after the watching the second plane impact.

Hated to leave the tv but had a meeting already planned in downtown KC for that day for metro area emergency service agencies. They called me while I was on the way - I remember when they called I was watching a commercial jet that had just recently taken off from KCI do a donut in the sky and leave pretty much a perfect circle of a jetcon trail when they grounded all of the air traffic - said they had cancelled that meeting but to still come because they were calling a planning/briefing for committee officers - spent the morning guessing about the "what if's"....luckily they did not happen.

I also remember seeing on the television GW Bush at the grade school, I think he was reading to a class of students, and someone came in the room and whispered into his ear and he excused himself and off he went.

But....of all that I remember from that day - what sticks out most to me is early on before the news media realized what they were really showing, was seeing people jumping from the roof of the first tower as their only option of not being burned alive.

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