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querelle

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Mon Sep-11-06 09:34 AM
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47. 9/11/2001

I was in a meeting with my boss when a colleague burst into my bosses office shortly before 9:00 AM to tell us that he had heard on his radio that a plane had just slammed into one of the towers at the World Trade Centre. I didn't really think much of it at the time because I know that a plane had hit the Empire State Building during WW2 and these things are bound to happen where ever there are tall buildings. Newsworthy and tragic, but not enough to halt the day's activities.

Well........

The same colleague interrupted our meeting again about twenty minutes later to tell us that ANOTHER plane had hit the other tower at the WTC. This time we knew it wasn't a tragic accident. We all gathered in the board room where we have a big screen television and stayed there for most of the day watching CBC Newsworld (CNN equivalent in Canada). We tried from time to time to check news sites on the web, but the traffic was just too heavy and we couldn't access any of them.

Went home early that day feeling kind of numb and full of dread about what was about to come.

Q

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