09-11-2015, 10:51 AM
I was at a work training event. Some of you young whippersnappers will be amazed to know that nobody in the room had a cell phone. A couple of the more well-heeled attendees did have pagers. Some of those only received phone numbers, but our boss paid an up charge to get news headlines on his pager. That's how we found out. It came across his pager and he interrupted the training to announce the first plane, and then the second plane. We took a short break to try to find out what was going on, but nobody really knew any details. It wasn't until we went to lunch that we saw any television coverage and learned the towers had collapsed. It was surreal walking into a restaurant and seeing what many people had been watching all morning, not wanting to watch yet unable to stop staring at it and wondering what the heck was going on. The rest of the day, like everyone else, we were just in a state of shock. What a horrible day and what miserable subsequent days of sadness and confusion by day and restlessness and nightmares by night.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
