I worked at United Airlines at the time and heard on the way to work that a small private plane had hit one of the towers. In the parking lot someone told me there were two planes and they were both 767s, a far cry from a Cessna. I knew then it was terrorism.
It was one of our planes that hit one of the towers, and one of our planes that went down in Pennsylvania. We sat around a radio all day and listen to in unfold. A flight attendant I was dating at the time called me when the first tower went down.
We were all in shock.
Had I been president, a tactical nuke (a small one) would have detonated over a remote mountaneous area of Afganistan - to me, that would have been the propper initialization of our reaction. Would have set a good tone for anyone contemplating trying that shit again in the future
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