Several Years Ago Today

[Platapus]

How's this for a creepy 11Sep01 story:

There I was (no Sh!t)

On Tuesday mornings I was supporting our war-gaming and exercise support people in Virginia. Tuesday 0900 was the team meeting. I remember walking down the hall and catching a glimpse of one of the towers burning.

"oh crap, there is a fire in one of the WTC towers, that must suck." And I went down to my team meeting.

It just happened that there was an exercise going on in my agency. The way they run these exercises is that they hand out script cards to people to participate. The card might say "at 0905 call the security office and report smelling smoke in stairway 7F" Stuff like that.

One of our exercise support people had such a script card and was supposed to participate in the exercise.

Just after 0900 we got word of the second aircraft crashing into the towers. Our exercise guy paled. His exercise card said that at 0915 he was supposed to call and report that a airplane had crashed into one of our towers. Our facility consists of a number of connected buildings referred to as towers.

Naturally the exercise was canceled, but this is very very eery.