where were you?

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Since this has stayed remarkably sane ... or someone has been hiding comments that went off track ...

I had gone to a house to install a radon mitigation system. My sister had called me just before my wife and I left to tell me a plane had hit the WTC, but she didn't say that it was a big plane. So we were thinking, gee, it's just a small plane or something else like that. Listened to the radio while we were working. I'm still not sure how the heck we did our job that day - the home owner was also there, and he was listening to our work radio with us.

He was a WWII veteran, and remembered when the B-17 had flown into the Empire State building. We were all going - well, these buildings are designed to handle certain things - and then we heard them announce that the towers had fallen. At one point we thought there were in excess of 10,000 people dead there. The homeowner said the same thing we were thinking - Well, we're at war. Who are we at war with now?

We finished up the job and went home and just sat in front of a TV the rest of the day. My wife and I are both prior service, and we were wondering when her brother (who was, and still is, in the Reserves) was going to get called up. One thing we did do was head out and fill up on gas for all our vehicles, because we knew there was going to be some gas gouging going on for the next few days - and quite honestly, we thought the short and long term consequences of this were going to be worse than they were.

(I'm not saying they haven't been bad - but we also didn't pop any nukes, which would have qualified as a BAD thing.)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.