Reply #36: I was at college in Dover, Delaware.

[Phillycat]

They evacuated the campus because of the Air Force base. I went home and glued myself to the TV for the rest of the day, until the evening, when I went out with my then-boyfriend and his little brother, because it was the little brother's 21st birthday. Poor kid! We sat at the bar and watched Bush's address to the nation, and I remember thinking, (like Steve Buscemi in Armageddon when they're trying to defuse the bomb) "Do a good job. Do a good job." I loathed Bush but was desperate for a leader of any kind and hoped to god I'd been wrong about him.

Of course, I wasn't wrong and he's managed to take the whole thing and turn it into the biggest, bloodiest, most financially costly collosal fuckup in the history of this country.

So. Kind of an accomplishment, I guess.