Grab a sentence from the nearest…

The post prompt from The Daily Post at WordPress.com today was:

Grab the nearest book (or website) to you right now. Jump to paragraph 3, second Sentence. Write it in a post.

Here goes…

BOOK:
Beyond Fear.  Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World, by Bruce Schneier. [Amazon]

SENTENCE:
From Chapter 1: All Security Involves Trade-offs, para 3, sentence 2:

“No one had ever done this before: hijack fuel-laden airplanes
and fly them into skyscrapers.”

wow…

The events of 9/11 were unthinkable.  The sentence before the one above reads:

“The attacks were amazing in the audacity of their conception.”

We’d sadly seen terrorist attacks overseas and in the continental US before, but nothing like the 9/11 events at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville.

I remember that morning…

My wife and I were getting ready for work.  I had just gotten out of the shower and she told me that a plane had struck the World Trade Center.  As we watched the news, the second plane struck.

After the first plane struck, I thought it may have been accidental (but not really.)  When the second hit, I knew it was not.  As the news broke about the plane striking the Pentagon, I think I told her that this was definitely a coordinated terrorist attack.

I left for work…

She left for work…

Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania…

… and life was forever different.

OK, do the same: nearest book (or website), paragraph 3, second Sentence. Write it in a comment below.  GO!