For History lovers.

[piece-itpete]

Too young for JFK, 9-11 I was at work when a shop guy came to the window to the office and said a plane hit the WTC. I said wow or something and went back to work (I knew an Air Force plane had hit the Empire State Building years ago, I figured it was an accident).

When he came up and said the second plane hit, I said, this means war. Shut down the shop and we sat around the radio.

Looking back, I should've sent everyone home, or at least we should've gone down the street to the bar to watch the tv.

The shop was located in an old industrial neighborhood. It was a beautiful day. Normally there would've been tons of trucks on the road - it was dead quiet, like a ghost town.

I didn't grasp the full horror until I got home and switched on the tv.

Pete