I'll never forget that day. I was at the Probation Office getting files ready for court. I was in Joe P.'s office and there was a live interruption on the radio about the first plane hitting the Tower. The announcer was flustered and kept saying, "We don't know what happened. We don't know why this plane hit the building." At first I was was like, "Wow, I wonder what happened to that flight! Was it a control tower error? Did the plane malfunction?"

Then the second plane hit while I was in Ryan's office. I just stood in the doorway, totally numb. People were rushing around, all you could hear were people saying, "Did you hear?" and "What the hell? What the hell is going on?"  I'll never forget the look on Suzanne's face when she ran past the door because her son is in the military and she just knew what it all meant. I remember being terrified because my brother worked in Boston at the time and no one knew what was happening, if there were more targets...

~i~