After the calls, I talked to co-workers and occasionally listened to the radio, our only source of information. It was then that it registered that two planes had struck the towers.
We then heard that the Pentagon had been hit. Instantly, I thought of a friend’s husband who had been assigned to the Pentagon. I forgot that he had been transferred to a site in Virginia just last month.
Then I thought of another friend who works in the Capitol; for certainly if the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were targets, the Capitol would be a target. I quickly dialed his office number but only got his voicemail.
I then joined my manager and a few co-workers in his office. “Do you think they can fall?” Tom asked no one in particular.
“Nah. Those buildings were designed to withstand an impact from a plane,” one of us said. “They would have to directly hit the support columns for that to happen.”
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