9/11

[davsel]

Eating breakfast in the cafeteria on Schriever AFB watching the second plane hit live on CNN.
I remember hearing the broadcaster stating that there may be something wrong with their navigation instruments.
Later watched them fall on the big screen in a conference room.
Got sent home for two weeks.
They actually brought in metal detectors to the portals afterward. If you know about Schriever, you understand how ridiculous this was.
Every morning, we'd wait in a line stretched across the parking lot for our turn to have our bags searched and a pass through the detector.

Not seeing/hearing any planes in the sky for a while afterward was strange to me.