20th anniversary of 9/11.
Sometimes it still seems like it was just yesterday. So vivid are the memories.
There was only one other coworker in the office when I got there about 7:45a (same building we’re still located in).
I got settled in and a few minutes later he came to my office and said a plane hit the WTC a few minutes ago. My first thoughts were of a B-25 bomber that hit the Empire State Building back in 1945. But, that was in heavy fog, and this was a clear day in NYC.
Most of us were in the office to see the second plane hit the other tower on one of the partners office TVs.
No chance it was an accident now. I'll never forget the all-enveloping sick feeling I had.
I had met the pilot of Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon) on one of my former flight attendant SILs layovers here in Austin once.
He invited me into the cockpit and we talked aviation while DWifey and her sis sat in the front first class seats of the plane and chatted.
Also lost on that flight was a friend of SILs and fellow flight attendant, and her husband, also a flight attendant. She was working the flight, and he was flying a jump seat to California with her for a vacation. She was also our guest book attendant at our wedding.
Just a horrible day all the way around. Seems like everyone I know was affected/connected in some way or another.
Continued prayers to all affected.
In memory of Charles "Chic" Burlingame, and Jennifer Lewis and her husband.
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