Six Years Ago Tomorrow – Looking Back in Video

Something very important happened.

Do you remember? How well do you remember?

Let’s go back to that day, September 11, 2001. It was a beautiful morning, wasn’t it? I remember it being sunny, with a bit of a breeze. I had to work, but since my desk backs up to a window, I was looking forward to some birds singing right outside my window.

I got a phone call from one of my officers that I should turn on the television. Something had happened to one of the World Trade Center towers. So we hauled down the television from the floor above mine and turned it on. Here’s what it looked and sounded like that morning.

CNN:

ABC:

Then, just as we were starting to get a handle on what in the world was going on in New York City, this:

And this:

Was your head whirling a bit at that point in time? Mine certainly was. We had really important stuff to do at work, but it seemed we couldn’t fully tear our eyes from what we were seeing and hearing.

Someone heard the word “Pentagon” – just a few miles up the river from where my officers routinely patrol. Heads snapped to the television again.

And then back to New York:

It seemed we could hardly absorb what we were seeing. The reporters, normally keen-eyed observers, were nearly dumbfounded.

Then this:

“Good Lord” was all, I think, anyone could muster. Even now, it’s more than I can hold in my head all at once. Tom Brokaw ended his early coverage this way:

Later on, the President, with the entire weight of the country on his shuolders and an uncertain death toll that could well have numbered more than ten thousand, spoke to America.

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