09-11-2016, 03:29 PM
I was at college about an hour from where my house and day care were, and was going into period one when the first, supposedly accidental, plane hit. I told the others what had happened and no one could really concentrate. As soon as class ended I want to the quad I saw the footage of the second plane but nobody had officially closed the school yet. All I could think was that they would close the roads any minute and I didn't want to be stuck so far from home if things continued to escalate, so I ran for my car and drove about 80 all the way home. Grabbed my boy, hightailed it home and called my wife. Everything else that day was a sickening blur of television images and fear that more was coming any,minute.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.