I still remember that morning like it was yesterday. I was 40 and getting myself together that morning to go to my college classes. I was told by someone that a plane had crashed in to the World Trade Center, but I was running late and didn't turn on the TV, When I did get to my 1st class of the day, they had the TV on the projection screen in the room. I saw the replay of the planes crashing n to the towers, I was in shock but the first thing that came in to my mind was that Bin Laden was behind the attacks. I really didn't know what to think. Since the college was the next door neighbor to the Army Base Fort Detrick, they canceled classes for the day. We didn't know if we were going to get hit again or not. The whole area was on high alert being we're only about 48 miles from Washington DC. When classes finally resumed, I remember seeing heavily armed guards walking the perimeter of the base every day after that, it was not a normal scenario to say the least. I should mention that Fort Detrick is one of only two places in the country where they store, and research level 4 bio-hazzards, the stuff that has no known cure so base security was of the most important thing there was at the time. Who knows what would have happened if the base was targeted and some of that stuff released in to the wild. I shutter to think about it......

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