I was at work glued to PBS radio.

Out on the farm I live on a high hill with a 360 deg. view. It was erie that all air traffic stopped. I was so used to seeing planes in the night sky. It made you feel as if you were isolated or cut off from the world.

On 9/12/2001 I got up at 5:30 am and I was having my coffee on the porch before going to work. The day was crystal clear and this time of year, just as that year, the humidity was about 0%. The visability was tremendous. As I was having my coffee I noticed a plume of blake smoke in the northeast sky that rose to what I could guess was the stratosphere then panned out at the top. I realized that this was the smoke form the World Trade Centers over 600 miles away. I got my wife and we both looked at the smoke. It was visable most of 9/12 and disapated 9/13.

Bin Laden got his due, unmarked grave at the bottom of the deep blue sea. A coward hiding in a hole for 10 years.

It did take a strong conviction to authorize going into Pakistan without their knowledge, with good, but not certain informationn that Bin Laden was there and to carry out a mission that was long over due. I don't think it could or would have been done any other way. Pakistan was protecting that POS.

Bless the 2000 souls of 9/11/2001.