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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[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I saw it on a TV at a restaurant on my way to work. Watched it and re-watched it then walked to work and told them I was going back home.

I was living in Chicago at the time and it occured within a week of the Bears' Super Bowl victory. Very surreal.