My wife Paula needed some help on her computer that morning, so I was going to go into work late that day. The TV was on (I think it was NBC). When they first mentioned that a plane had hit the WTC tower, I assumed it was some little 4 seater airplane and either the pilot had some medical problem or there was some mechanical problem with the plane.
When the second plane hit was when it became pretty obvious what was going on. Although I remember one clueless tv reporter who said "I wonder if Air Traffic Control is having a problem?" as if on a crystal clear day, two pilots in two different airplanes in the space of 10 minutes would fail to notice a large building in their flight path!
At the time, I was not called to a congregation, so I filled in as supply and interim in various places. I also got a gig as one of those "civilian contractors" you hear about - in my case, chaplain in the Sioux Falls Veterans' Hospital. We were short-staffed, as there was a hiring freeze in place (budgets!), and I remember catching small pieces of the story between patient visits, paperwork and meetings. I didn't get the whole story until the evening. Since we served veterans, the coming days were busy. Patients were angry, naturally, but mostly they were worried about those currently serving. Somehow they got a sense of what kind of danger this meant for our millitary.
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My wife Paula needed some help on her computer that morning, so I was going to go into work late that day. The TV was on (I think it was NBC). When they first mentioned that a plane had hit the WTC tower, I assumed it was some little 4 seater airplane and either the pilot had some medical problem or there was some mechanical problem with the plane.
When the second plane hit was when it became pretty obvious what was going on. Although I remember one clueless tv reporter who said "I wonder if Air Traffic Control is having a problem?" as if on a crystal clear day, two pilots in two different airplanes in the space of 10 minutes would fail to notice a large building in their flight path!
At the time, I was not called to a congregation, so I filled in as supply and interim in various places. I also got a gig as one of those "civilian contractors" you hear about - in my case, chaplain in the Sioux Falls Veterans' Hospital.
We were short-staffed, as there was a hiring freeze in place (budgets!), and I remember catching small pieces of the story between patient visits, paperwork and meetings. I didn't get the whole story until the evening.
Since we served veterans, the coming days were busy. Patients were angry, naturally, but mostly they were worried about those currently serving. Somehow they got a sense of what kind of danger this meant for our millitary.
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