that day

It was five years ago.
I was at the office when a co-worker commented "A plane crashed into the World Trade Center." I thought maybe a small plane had lost it's way and done that. There was a famous incident in the early 30's when a plane had crashed into the Empire State Building. So I figured it was something like that.

Then we tried to get into the CNN site and couldn't. There was no huge tv in the office but somebody had a small B&W set. And there we saw the whole thing as it unfolded. With a million thoughts in our heads, from how many people were dead to what this all meant. And how everything was going to change because of it.

Nobody really worked that day. We all sat there, dazed and stunned.