9/11 As it happened

[sharkbitten]

My wife and I had gone to the Monday Night Football game the night before between the Broncos and Giants and we got home late Monday night. Tuesday morning (9/11), I called in to work sick at 6 am Denver time and went back to sleep. Next thing I know, a few hours later, I hear my wife yelling for me and I knew something strange was happening by the tone of her voice. At first, I thought something was wrong with our 5 month old daughter. She runs in and tells me to turn on the tv and that the Pentagon had been hit by an aircraft and that the WTC has been hit also and collapsed.
We watched the coverage all day in total amazement and disbelief. It was like someone said earlier-we felt like we shouldn't turn it off, so we saw the same images over, and over, and over. Around dinner time was the first time we turned off the tv all day. We were so numb from seeing all of those images. A lot of those images are still burned into my brain.

I work for an aircraft charter company and one of our aircraft was allowed to fly blood and other emergency supplies into New York from Bonfils Blood Center and from FEMA a few days after the attack but prior to any other civilian aircraft in the US being allowed to fly. I talked to the pilots later. They said it was really strange being the only aircraft in the sky and all the radios being silent. They also said they could see the smoke from ground zero from over 200 miles out.