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2002-09-11

I was at my desk in the office the morining of the 11th, I had just pulled up the WFAA.com web-site of a local TV station to check what the weather forecast was for the day, when I saw that a "breaking news" headline had been put up that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought it was probably a small plane and either felt it was some sort of accident or a suicide attempt and did not pay very much attention to the report. About 30 minutes later someone in the office said another plane had hit the WTC. At this point I and several of my co-workers felt that this was obviously not an accident or isolated incident. Being a financial services firm we have TV's in our trading room that monitor the financial news of the day and we all went into the trading room to see what was going on. At that point we saw what had happend and then watched to video replays of the second plane flying into the WTC. We also watched as both towers collapsed. The reaction was shock, dis-belief, confusion, and of couse grief and sadness.