Inside the situation room 4

"Sit Room, this is Andy."
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"Andy, what are you doing there?" I perceived the voice of Captain Loewer, USN, the Director the Sit Room and the NSC agent going with the President.

"Greetings Capt. Loewer, how are you?" It was an inept inquiry and a reflex that I couldn't stop in time. I immediately included, "I'm keeping a line open amongst us and Offutt," which appeared to fulfill her.

I was in the interchanges territory, holding the telephone, when the Twin Towers began descending. Towers of metal and glass had gotten to be towers of smoke; it took a few moments to enlist what had simply happened, yet once I did I felt wiped out. What number of individuals were in there? What number of laborers? What number of rescuers? I had experienced childhood with Long Island and the Twin Towers were a historic point I would recognize each time I went into or close to the city, and now they were no more. Until the end of time. Alongside a huge number of individuals, men and ladies going about their every day lives who were insensitively killed by a foe people in general would figure out how to fear.

Everybody dependably discusses the World Trade Center and the fearless souls who battled about the Pennsylvania wide open, yet they appear to disregard the seething gap in the side of the Pentagon that murdered very nearly two hundred and injured numerous others. I was reminded each day on my approach to and from work, when the transport to the Metro passed the side of the Pentagon that was struck.

The shoot down request had been given around the time the Towers caved in, and those of us in the correspondences zone saw and heard the Vice President get that request. There was a bank of little TV screens in the interchanges part of the Sit Room that were checked when gatherings occurred to guarantee video and sound quality, and since the President and Vice President were videoconferencing, their discussions went through the Sit Room. It was an inconceivable request: military planes approved to shoot down business carriers. The reason for existing was to spare lives, yet I couldn't envision sitting in the cockpit of a F-16 and being requested to focus on a 200-seat traveler plane.