24 years ago...

[johno]

I was walking down a hallway at NORAD, when the boards lit up. Without the *exercise* light on.

I raced to the nearest office, to find everyone clustered around the TV watching as CNN ran the explosion over and over and over...

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[kshandra]

I was walking to homeroom and overheard two upperclassmen in the hallway. I remember thinking it was both way too early for April Fools and a really sick choice - and then the TV was on in homeroom....

I was at a parochial school; religion was my next class. One of the other girls wound up getting permission from the teacher so she could run to the bathroom and get me tissues.

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