Reply #13: Balancing my checkbook.

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I checked CNN.com just before signing on to my bank to balance my checkbook. I saw that a plane, reportedly a twin engine plane, had hit the WTC, and I tried to remember details of the plane that had hit the Empire State Building in the 40s. After balancing my checkbook, I tried to sign back on to CNN to check the headlines again, not really remembering the plane story. I couldn't get CNN to load, so I checked my other favorite web sites, and none of them would load, either. I thought "Hm, I wonder if it's my connection or if something big has happened." About then my wife came home with our daughter, who had thrown up in the car just as they were getting to school, and so had to come back home. We talked about her sickness for a bit, then my wife asked, very somberly, "Are you following the story out of Washington?" I was confused for a moment, then I said, "Oh, the plane crash? That was in New York." She told me a plane had crashed into the Pentagon, and she thought one had hit the WTC in New York, too.

I remember trying to walk slowly up the stairs to the television so I wouldn't frighten our daughter. Before I turned it on I was trying to guess who had attacked us. Bin Laden was my top guess, but I couldn't remember his name. I remember thinking "Bush will be impeached by the end of the week for this. This is what Clinton has been warning the Republicans about since 96."

I spent the rest of that day checking websites on maximum age to join the military, and checking out sites on the FBI, NSA, etc, trying to find some way to get involved. I kept thinking this was our Pearl Harbor, this was our time to sacrifice.

Sad how many god intentions were wasted by the "Feel Good" Republicans after that.