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2006-09-11

My friend Larry called me early in the morning to tell me that an airplane crashed into a building in New York. I was really groggy and didn't think much of it. I then went back to sleep.

My alarm went off a few minutes later to the local news channel, 770 KKOB AM, and reported that another plane crashed the World Trade Center. I didn't think it was a big plane at first...maybe a single engine 120 hp plane or something!

I got dressed right away and called my Larry and chided him for not telling me it was a 747 or something.

By this time the first tower went down in front of my eyes! Holy crap. My heart fell with it. I called by office and told them I was on the way. I didn't want to be alone and experience what was going on.

As I drove to work I noticed that the streets were just about empty, you know. Like it was thanksgiving or something. Hardly a soul was on the road.

The second tower went down while on the way to work. The air was silent and there was an uneasy calm in Albuquerque that day.

I wasn't yet born when Kennedy was assasinated so I cannot tell you where I was when that happened. I was around when terrorists tried to assasinate America...they failed...and I will never foreget...