Journal Entry 9-11-01 Part 2

All we did at team meeting was watch the internet site that Terri Zumbrook had on in her room. We saw the second tower plane crash over and over then the almost unbelievable collapse of both towers in a cloud of debris. They almost looked like they'd been imploded, coming nearly straight down almost in slow motion.

Went to Freddie's, but did not feel like playing NTN. Just watched TV. A guy across the bar from me agreed that perhaps the terrorists were on the ground and placed bombs during the chaos. That is the only way we could explain the implosion effect. However, as we continued to see the second plane crash and the towers coming down, I noticed that the debris was starting from the top and plummeting down almost in slow motion so it wasn't an implosion.

We got very excited when we got reports of explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan. Everyone was hoping it was a US retaliatory attack, as almost since we first heard of the attack, we were sure it was bin Laden's work.

We never did hear anymore of it [the explosions in Kabul], too bad. The major networks had nothing on but the news and NO commercials. Somehow, seeing a beer commercial or Must-See TV promo would be hugely inappropriate.

Liz and I just watched TV until 11. The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania apparently did not reach its target (it had been taken by the hijackers) because the passengers rose up against them when they heard.

Liz said she first heard about it at home and listened on the way to school. They did not discuss it with her 3rd graders, but one of her kids went home.

End of Journal for this day.



A Follow-Up

I lived through the Kennedy assassination, but was born ten years after Pearl Harbor. I never in my wildest dreams could have even imagined this happening. The idea that terrorists would use our own planes to do the killing and destruction is still pretty much unfathomable.

It still gets to me when I see those buildings spewing the smoke into that blue sky. Plus, it is strange to see movies or TV shows that have the Towers in the background.

I checked out other cable channels to see what they had on. Many had accounts of the days events, even MTV. Some were continuing with regular programming. Actually, I felt regular programming wasn't that bad of an idea. Some people just needed to do something different.

Of course, with Kennedy's assassination, we only had about six channels to watch. This were in the pre-cable days.