It was a long couple of days for me. My wife and I were living on Ft. Dix, but that day I was in Bristol, PA helping get the 465th Trans Co (US Army Reserve unit) get ready for an upcoming maintenance inspection. The Motor SGT got a call from his wife telling him about the first plane hitting the tower. He pulled out an old portable black and white TV he had stashed in his office. We were watching the news when the second plane hit. We were both dumbfounded, couldn't believe that we could be attacked in such a manner. I immediately called my wife and asked her if she was watching the news. She said she wasn't, so I told her to put it on. After a while she called me back, to tell me they had shut down Ft. Dix.
The two things that stuck in my mind that day (other than the attack itself) was the video of the Palestinians celebrating and dancing in the streets and news footage of New Yorkers in the street just an hour or two after the attack. There was this one guy, who had made a sign out of cardboard that said "bomb the Taliban". That guy had called it even before they had taken responsibility.
That day had changed Military life forever.
Ray
The two things that stuck in my mind that day (other than the attack itself) was the video of the Palestinians celebrating and dancing in the streets and news footage of New Yorkers in the street just an hour or two after the attack. There was this one guy, who had made a sign out of cardboard that said "bomb the Taliban". That guy had called it even before they had taken responsibility.
That day had changed Military life forever.
Ray