I was in downtown Atlanta picking up some Braves Tickets I had won for that day, September 11,2001. My Dad called me, told me that a commercial airliner had hit the World Trade Center. We (my building partner and I) zoomed over to the Varsity, the worlds biggest drive in, ran inside and watched with a few 100 other shocked people. When the second plane hit, women screamed and a few fainted. I knew we were under attack. We were right next door to the tallest building in Atlanta, the IBM building. The local news broke in and said that there was a possibility that other planes had been hijacked in major cities, Atlanta included. We booked back home, I got my kids out of school so we could all watch this together.
I still have a hard time taking it in. All that talent gone in the blink of an eye. All the lives lost.
Bless you that knew someone there. We all lost friends that day.
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Jim
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