I was home from working nights and Trich called (we where still dating at the time) and said 'we' are under attack. Having been a sleep for 3 hours at that point I told her to hang up and called the cops, she said no some terrorist flew a plane into the twin towers, (at the time in orlando there was this pink double high rise hotel called the twin towers) I asked her what she was doing in the disney area and she said no in nyc. she told me to turn on the TV and right then saw the second plane hit live, I was like is this a joke.. she said no and then the news said disney maybe a target as well..
We met up at her work and I bought a news paper which headlines where some city council man had a melt down.
I remember thinking how simple life was and how this was going to change everything forever.
My best friend lived in DC when you went out on his street turn left and you could see the dome of the capitol building. He made it out ok, but it took a few days to hear from him because the phone lines where messed up.
I actually drove up to DC a few weeks later.. wow like a military state. humvees on every other corner national guardsmen on foot and on patrol in the streets. I think I have a pic of the pentagon (the side that is next to the highway with a bradley fighting vehicle (mini tank) point towards any cars that might want to skip the raiing and bee line towards the building. The next year I flew into boston where the planes left from and they where still up armored with tactically outfitted cops/soldiers with mp5 and attack dogs.
We met up at her work and I bought a news paper which headlines where some city council man had a melt down.
I remember thinking how simple life was and how this was going to change everything forever.
My best friend lived in DC when you went out on his street turn left and you could see the dome of the capitol building. He made it out ok, but it took a few days to hear from him because the phone lines where messed up.
I actually drove up to DC a few weeks later.. wow like a military state. humvees on every other corner national guardsmen on foot and on patrol in the streets. I think I have a pic of the pentagon (the side that is next to the highway with a bradley fighting vehicle (mini tank) point towards any cars that might want to skip the raiing and bee line towards the building. The next year I flew into boston where the planes left from and they where still up armored with tactically outfitted cops/soldiers with mp5 and attack dogs.
