Reply #12: let's see

[fizzgig]

1) i still had another five weeks in the womb when reagan was shot

2) all i remember is seeing the footage played over and over on television. i remember columbia very clearly, though. it was a saturday and i was on my way into work when i heard the news on npr. i was stunned. i sat in my car and cried for a bit before going into work.

3) i came upstairs to get my coffee when my mom told me a plane had hit one of the towers. i thought it was some sort of small private plane or something until i saw the tv footage...and then the second plane hit...and then the towers came down. disbelief does not even begin to describe how i felt that day...neither does surreal.

i went to school and work as normal, but the campus was so quiet, so muted...it was eerie. my first class of the day was poli sci, taught by professor who is internationally considered an expert on local politics. we talked about what had happened and what it could mean, i still remember that bin laden was the focus of that conversation.