email879.xml
Title
email879.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
email
Date Entered
2002-09-15
September 11 Email: Body
Jeff Knorek <jknorek@mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
> ...that you are both okay.
>
> JK
>
yes, we're OK.
my work takes me to the Pentagon about once every three or four months - but not today. as it happens I was downtown, double booked for two am meetings (one a block W of the white house, the other a block E of it). was just south of the White House while walking from the first one to the second when Frank Phillips called about the events in New York; didn't believe it at first but called Rebecca and asked her to pull up cnn.com and she said she couldn't get through. later we had to break off our meeting when the building was closed/evacuated. I then went back to the site of the first meeting (had left an engineer there and wanted to make sure she got out OK: it was her first-ever field call, but she had gotten out earlier and managed to call me from the subway in Rockville -- she asked what to do so I told her "just keep going"). from the mall I could see the smoke from the Pentagon fire but no evidence of fires/bombs at the State Dept. by then Rebecca had gotten through (cellular was useless for outbound but now and then an inbound call could get through), so I walked through gridlocked streets over to her work where we sat with her colleagues looking at horrific images on TV. upon learning the subway was operating we took it home.
am at home for the moment, passing through on the way to the office, although I can't see how I'll get much of anything done. it's odd to not hear commercial air traffic passing overhead. military aircraft are operating in the vicinity - they have quite a different sound to them.
>
> ...that you are both okay.
>
> JK
>
yes, we're OK.
my work takes me to the Pentagon about once every three or four months - but not today. as it happens I was downtown, double booked for two am meetings (one a block W of the white house, the other a block E of it). was just south of the White House while walking from the first one to the second when Frank Phillips called about the events in New York; didn't believe it at first but called Rebecca and asked her to pull up cnn.com and she said she couldn't get through. later we had to break off our meeting when the building was closed/evacuated. I then went back to the site of the first meeting (had left an engineer there and wanted to make sure she got out OK: it was her first-ever field call, but she had gotten out earlier and managed to call me from the subway in Rockville -- she asked what to do so I told her "just keep going"). from the mall I could see the smoke from the Pentagon fire but no evidence of fires/bombs at the State Dept. by then Rebecca had gotten through (cellular was useless for outbound but now and then an inbound call could get through), so I walked through gridlocked streets over to her work where we sat with her colleagues looking at horrific images on TV. upon learning the subway was operating we took it home.
am at home for the moment, passing through on the way to the office, although I can't see how I'll get much of anything done. it's odd to not hear commercial air traffic passing overhead. military aircraft are operating in the vicinity - they have quite a different sound to them.
September 11 Email: Date
11-Sep-01 14:51 EST
September 11 Email: Subject
we're fine (was: Let us know)
Collection
Citation
“email879.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed November 29, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/39895.