September 11, 2001 Ten Years Later

[Bill Gulley]

I woke up at my cabin at the lake and got my coffee. My wife turned on the TV and called me into the living room telling me what had happened. I stood there watching and at first thought it was a small plane untill they said it was a passenger jet. I had an air traffic controll background in the Army and couldn't believe it was an accident. After the second plane, I told my wife- we are at war! She asked who would do that and I said I bet it's Bin Ladden.

I watched the rest of the day until I went home that afternoon. Later I called the Army Reserve Center, as I am a retired officer, and ask if I could come off retirement and go active again. I was too old.

About a year before there was a video of Bin Laden walking aalong a dirt path with his top followers, one of the waved his hands, palms facing each other in a vertical motion, then waved on hand down as if he was pushing something down. That clip, to my knowledge has never been seen again on TV.

I believe they were talking about the 9/11 plan.

Do you remember where you were ten years ago today?