I love Aussies, always have. Thank you, Equine of Beelzebub.

I was in a Microsoft class at RETS. One of the guys in the class was surfing the web instead of paying attention, and he piped up that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. I remember that it had been in the news not too long before, there had been one or two accidental small-plane v. skyscraper crashes, and I assumed this was just another one. The instructor just kept on going, and seemed a little annoyed that the guy had said anything, until he said that another one had hit. That was the end of that class. We had a cookout at the school a few days later, I think it was 4 days, and I remember it was the first time we saw a couple planes overhead since the attack. On an unrelated note, I saw a documentary recently about "ConAir," where they fly inmates here and there, and they said that was one of the few flights allowed to continue in the days immediately after 9/11.