What the Sept 11 bad guys didnt want to happen
I worked the night shift on Sept. 10, 2001, didn’t crawl into bed until about 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 11.
Little did I know when I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, everything would be different by the time I woke up.
A ringing telephone. That’s how my day started around 11:30 a.m. It was my friend and co-worker, Tom Gromak, who had worked the detnews.com desk with me the night before. He had been awoken by a telephone call a few minutes earlier by a bearer of the bad news, which Tom then passed on to me.
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He rattled off a laundry list of tragedies that seemed impossible at the time: hijacked planes flying into towers, towers falling, Pentagon attacked, likely thousands dead, air traffic around the United States halted.
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