We got a phone call from a friend.........she said to turn on the TV.
We watched the events reported and then saw the second plan crash into the other tower. The News people reported about ALL the airplanes being grounded to prevent anything else happening.
Well, another plane crashed into the Penagon building and a 4 th plane crashed into a field.....due to brave action by some of the passangers.
After watching the TV for an hour (?)....don't really remember how long....I saw that one of the WTC towers was leaning some. This had not yet been reported by the news people. I told my wife, it is going to fall but I did not image the whole building would crash down. I also remember seeing the "dark streaks" falling from the towers.
During these early minutes of reporting......it was speculated on how many people could have been in the buildings. The estimates were much much higher than the final death toll.
My plans for the day were to go scouting.......so I left the house, just before the first tower fell.
Like most of Americans....we watched the TV for days to hear all the reports. Nothing else was being reported for the next week.
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