Its Me wrote:
I was in Syracuse, NY. We were in a RF shielded staging room at
Lockheed-Martin, and when we came out to head to lunch, everyone was
huddled around the various TV's watching the coverage of the Twin Towers
coming down. We stood there in shock for a few minutes, and then my cell
rang. It was my best friend's wife checking on me... she knew I was in
NY, but not exactly where. Had been trying me for a while, but there was
no reception in that staging room.

I was set to leave the next day, so when I got back to my hotel I called
Hertz. They said I could do a one-way return back to Columbia, SC with
no extra charge. The drive back was surreal. Light traffic, and saw
several of those programmable road signs with the American flag and "God
Bless America" on them. The rental car return lot was filled with
license plates from all over the eastern US.

God bless the 2,996 that died that say, and the ones that continue to be
sick and die from illnesses cause by their presence on that day.


I was on a 3/4 day tuna fishing trip out of San Diego. We saw it on the
onboard TV. We did catch tuna as they closed the ports in San Diego until
6pm that evening. I was out of Seaforth, and all the P.t Loma boats had to
return to Seaforth as San Diego Bay remained closed.