I actually heard the news on QR77 initially. I went into work and a TV was set up in our board room. We had really crappy reception, but people would move in and out to see what was going on. A co-workers wife was a flight attendant who had just finished a trip to Germany. She was called in her hotel room and told that all flights had been grounded and she would be called when they were rescheduled. She didn't hear back for days, until a few hours before the return flight. No one overseas knew anything and of course no one really knew how/if things were going to get back to normal.
Today is also a friend's birthday. I kind of feel bad for her because every year since then, today is filled with memorials and a sense of loss.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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