Remembering 9/11/01

9/11/01 was like yesterday to me. I was living in Washington, DC and commuting back and forth to work in Tysons Corner.

I was listening to the radio that morning as I got ready for work and heard the deejay say that President Bush was on his way to Florida to read schoolbooks to children. I stopped and thought, "That's weird. He has to meet with that diplomat at 10 a.m. Hmm...guess his schedule changed."

I remembered hearing on the news the night before that the 10 a.m. meeting at the White House was very important. So I thought it was strange that the President would go and just cancel like that. But the way the world works...meetings get canceled all the time.

I left my house to head towards the metro and a block from the metro I said to myself, "Today is going to be one day you will never forget." Even then, I thought my intuition was just nuts and I said to myself, "Ok, you're crazy...we'll see about that."

I arrived at the office and sat down at my computer right at 9 a.m. I first went to check my emails and saw the Yahoo! banner in the news section say, "President Bush to meet..." I sat there thinking, "I guess Yahoo! didn't get the updated itinerary for the President." Then the phone rings.

It's my boss' fiancee saying, "Turn on the news. The radio is saying that a plane just flew into the World Trade Center." I turned to my co-worker and told her what just happened. We proceeded to the conference room to turn on the TV. We stood and watched the first tower ablaze.

At the time, I had thought we were watching a recording, because I sat there saying, "I don't understand.