Dimitri wrote:
> I'll bet you remember what you were doing 7 years ago today.
>
> As I walked through the Bar to get to the restaurant there was a giant
> screen TV. Several men were standing around discussing the event. At
> the moment I looked at the giant screen, much to the horror of
> everyone standing there, the second plane hit. A man said "Holy F***
> We're being attacked".
> As they say the rest is history.
>
> And you?
>
> Dimitri
>
> I hope we never forget.


That's almost exactly how it played out. I'd been at the office since
before 7AM central so I didn't know what was going on in the world outside.
When I got a second cup of coffee a co-worker who had just arrived told me
he'd heard on the radio a plane had hit the WTC. We were speculating how on
earth that could have happened when another man rushed past us, "The other
one just got hit. We're at war!"

The first man looked at me, rather dazed, and said, "OMG, that's where our
headquarters is." Holy crap. The parent company, Marsh & McClennan,
occupied the 99th-101st floors of the North tower. When they acquired our
company a fair number of co-workers moved from Memphis to NYC to work in
their offices. We lost 295 colleagues that day, a number of whom I knew
personally. Forget? Not bloody likely.

Jill