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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[elizabear.livejournal.com]

I was working on the switchboard at Marriott. I was on a call when someone came in to the office and told us. I said "WHAT?!", and the woman on the phone asked me what was going on. I told her, and we were both in shock.

I also remember that it took less than 24 hours for the jokes to start. It struck me at the time that we humans have some strange coping mechanisms.