I work for Boeing, in the same factory that those two planes were built.
I was inside an Airplane working on the interior when a woman, who was listening to her radio towards the front of the airplane came running back, crying towards me and asked me to turn the station on my boom box so that everybody could listen.
No more work was done that day and everybody wanted to go home.
The company would not let us leave unless we wanted to use sick leave although they decided to shut down operations at the headquarters in Chicago for fear a plane might hit there.
I remember looking at the 777 I was working on as though it too might become another weapon for some future attack.
I work with a lot of middle Eastern customers from airlines in Saudi, Pakistan, Kuwait and a few others and although I know that I should not stereotype them. I have a hard time not feeling differently about them all these days.
Say what you want about Bush, I say many of the same things but the militant whack-jobs have not hit us on our own soil since that day on 9-11
Bless our military and our firemen, policemen and all the volunteers who give everyday to maintain our freedoms and safety.
Bless every American and believer in freedom and democracy for we were all injured in some way that day.
I will Never Forget.