So where were you - When you heard about wtc bombings?

[Is Don on the phone?]

It sounds like there is a plane right over our heads and VERY close. Someone actually screamed "Oh no, another one"

What we didn't know is that it was the Combat Air Patrols.

Made us jump down on the pile, too.... In fact, we worked under the idea that there may have been secondary devices planted to aid in the destruction of the towers (everyone in the command post, including I found out later the engineers, felt that the aircraft hitting the buildings alone would not cause them to collapse) so anytime there was an unexpected loud noise, we would freeze like deer in the headlights. Hell, it got so that it seemed we would evac on a regular schedule based on the fear that the WFC would crumble, or the retaining walls on the Hudson would go.

Thinking about it, we were nuts for being there. But we did what we had to do, and I'd do it again in a new york minute.