Where were you on 9/11?

[*jason*]

I had the day off.  I slept through the whole thing.  My landline (blast from the past) was ringing off the hook all morning, but I ignored it.  I remember driving north on 315 in Columbus later that day, and some guy was standing on an overpass waving an American flag.  I remember the Senate standing on the steps of the capital building singing God Bless America.  And I remember Bill Mahr losing his job over a comment that it is more cowardly to fire cruise missiles from miles away than it is to perform a suicide mission.  Two months later I flew to Washington (actually Baltimore because Ronald Reagan was still closed), and I saw the Pentagon.  The gaping hole had been squared off by that time, but it took my breathe away to see it.  I still have a picture (that I took) of a little girl with afro puffs standing in front of and staring at a poster of the victims of the Pentagon attack.  Their faces made the image of an American flag.