I Know Where I Was

Glad you made it through!
You're right about the media. Think of where we'd be if AlGore were president. Thank goodness for GW!

God bless Ameica!

I'd just finished a run. I didn't have class until 11, so I was going to work on a paper until then (coincidentally, a policy paper on the U.S.'s no-negotiation policy with terrorists). I turned on the radio. The first thing I heard was a report that a second plane had hit the WTC. I'm sitting in a dorm room in Minot, ND. The only thing I'm thinking is:

What. The. Foxtrot?

I left my dorm room and went to the common area, where there was a television, and turned on the news. I ran back to my room and grabbed a notebook and a pen. I started taking notes. I bounced from MSNBC to CNN to Headline News, before settling on the local Fox affiliate, which like yours, was carrying the FNC feed.

I went to class, Policy Issues in the Criminal Justice System (guess what we talked about), at 11. There were all kinds of rumours: something about O'Hare, something about Houston and something about the ND capitol building being the tallest in the country (I don't even know if that's true). It was a mass of confusion. I tried to read back what I'd heard on the news, but nothing was certain at the moment. I'd made a list of possible perpetrators, and I'm ashamed to say AQ didn't make the list (ideological fellow travelers certainly did, however).

You are absolutely correct about Bush. What was he supposed to do: Drop everything, run to the nearest phone booth, and save the world? That wouldn't have caused a panic or anything. Do these people not understand that calmness and thinking things through in a stressful situation is good?

Kerry said that he'd sat in a trance-type state. I'm guessing that didn't involve a great deal of either action or thinking.

Enemies attack the U.S., nearly taking out an entire branch of government (if pentagon had been able to find his way, or if PA flight hadn't stalled as long as it did), and the media want to report where the POTUS is?

What. The. Foxtrot?

Good post.

An thanks for commenting.

mgraves, I can only hope that your class was les ideological than any Poli Sci classes I took back in the late 70's early 80's.

But that first burst of who could have done this, I also kept AQ off my early list. I just figured them for a bunch of spoiled rich Suadi kids playing jihadi. Guess that's why I don't work in Langley.

Again thanks for reading.

It was a tragic day which I will never forget