I woke up to see Tower 1 burning. At that point, they were thinking it was an accident. I took a shower, got out, and saw that Tower 2 had been hit. Then the tower collapsed. I went into work.
I spent the next 8 hours on air relatively straight (I was in radio at the time), only going to the network for occassional commentary. A problem surfaced after getting to work with the national network. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, gays, lesbians, and liberals were the reason why the country was under attack (according to the fine hosts of U.S. Radio Network --- which we used to fill up night time). So instead of having hateful speech that was ignoring what was going on, I talked with local police officals, community members, congresspeople, ect. and monitored CNN and Fox news while reporting on the events. It was argueably the toughest day of my work life (the other was when Sen. Paul Wellstone's plan crashed --- but I was only on for about 4 hours straight that day). When I left, I had literally no voice left.
After that we decided to drop that network and get CNN. My boss may have been a right winger, but even he was disgusted by the commentary on that network.
Grady
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machin ery of night.