9/11, ten years later. Seems like forever ago. There are literally billions of stories about "where were you on that day?" I recently watched a NatGeo story about George W. Bush's story and found it compelling; I simply couldn't have imagined being in his position of responsibility on that day. But he said something that struck me interesting: paraphrased, he said that "some day 9/11 will be a date on the calendar like Pearl Harbor, but for us that lived through it there's our memories of that day". Here's mine. On Monday September 10, 2001 I was in Albany NY on a business trip as a Novell IT consultant, having flown myself there in my Grumman Tiger . I was supposed to be working with a downtown state government agency all week but there was a problem with the contract when I arrived that morning; either the statement of work was wrong, or there was disagreement on the scope of work, or something like that. We tried to come to an agreement but by ear...
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