Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)

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Mark Ewing

I had just settled down in my office for the morning when the fax machine began churning yet another fax.  I ignored it, as usual.  In 2001, I was operating a news site, and it was not uncommon for news stories to be delivered via fax.  I’ll check it later.

Then the next fax came through just about two or three minutes later.  And then another, and another.  This was not common.  I walked across the room to see what was up, and I read something that drew my attention immediately.  One of the faxes described an explosion, and the other two described a plane crash.

I flipped on CNN and watched live footage of smoke billowing from one of the massive World Trade Center towers that adorned the NYC skyline for decades.  At the moment, I didn’t grasp  the magnitude of what had just happened, because I was still…

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