Why is this thread called 9/11/2001 - 9/11/2015 ? (please fix the title)
Tomorrow (Sunday) is 9/11/2016 - the 15th anniversary
Sept 11 2001 I was working at an Army Civilian location in the DC area.
One of our Govies got a phone call and pulled out a TV, and plugged it in just in time to see the second plane heading towards the Twin towers.
Later we heard the top Govie for our group had just left his office at the Pentagon and was being driven to another location for a regularly scheduled meeting.
As they circled the building to head for the parking lot exit, he happened to turn around
and look out the back window of the car and saw the building (and his office) go up in flames ...
They let us go within the hour and we went home to be with our loved ones, not sure what was coming next.
That morning of Sept 11 2001 we didn't know if this was the start of nuclear war, WW3, or what would happen next.
Understand, when I grew up, we did atom bomb drills (early 60s) and crawled under our desks in elementary school.
But it was quite a change to realize any American location could be a target for some hate mongering murderous bastards.