tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post7756776371107987710..comments2023-09-09T07:55:53.277-07:00Comments on El Pollo Real: What were you doing the morning of September 11th, 2001?chickelithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post-9613906018994209422011-09-10T15:54:35.585-07:002011-09-10T15:54:35.585-07:00I don't recall exactly when I heard that morni...I don't recall exactly when I heard that morning but I was in the office where I worked at the IRS and my cubicle neighbor said a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Towers. I thought small plane, accident and gave it not much further thought. When reality began to sink in - we didn't have a television in the office so I don't think I saw events unfold live, only heard them - having lived through the Oklahoma City bombing - I mean, I didn't survive the bombing but I was only blocks away - I knew the death toll would be staggering. We had 180 people die in the Murrah bombing, how many thousands would die in the Towers? As bad as it was, it was a miracle it wasn't any worse. <br /><br />I had to been in Dallas a day or two later and walking the streets, I looked into the empty blue skies and realized nothing, nothing would be the same.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04210441627504923976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130126685334700207.post-44559827672506808462011-09-10T15:22:56.310-07:002011-09-10T15:22:56.310-07:00I was the commander of the Orange County Regional ...I was the commander of the Orange County Regional Gang Enforcement Team and on my way in to work, driving on the freeway, my daughter called and told me that an airplane crashed into the WTC. I told her not to worry because it was engineered to sustain an impact from a 747 (but nobody factored in burning fuel). <br /><br />When I got in to work, I flipped on the TV in the office and watched the second airplane hit. I told my subordinates (Santa Ana PD Sergeant and a California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement Special Agent Supervisor) that we should anticipate instructions to stop hunting gang members and start hunting rag heads. <br /><br />There were about twenty people in the office grouped around the TV all day. Nobody got any substantive work done. The taxpayers were cheated - but I expect that the same scene was played out nationwide as the Pentagon was hit, a flight spiraled in somewhere in Pennsylvania and there were rumors of other flights headed here and there.<br /><br />Mohammad Atta had lived in Rancho Santa Margarita at one time so there was a flurry of activity there to see what turned up.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.com