Stay out of downtown on the 11th. It's going to be a little... uh... smoggy...

From: David G Miller
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
To: Brian Gunn

Subject: You okay?
DM: Is this it?
BG: I'm good. I left my office after I heard another plane went missing and I realized that my window has a perfect view of the FBI building.
DM: Fuck, this shit is crazy.
BG: Incredible. Think of the planning, resources, and balls that went into these attacks. Fucking incredible.
Downtown D.C. is a state of martial law. Guys with machine guns are all over the place. Chevy suburbans that usually have dark windows rolled up have their windows down with gun barrels exposed. As I said, I left the office when I heard that another plane was missing and it dawned on me that my window overlooks the FBI building. I'm home now and am fine. Our damages expert in this case I'm working on -- who I have been working with for the last week -- was on the 15th floor of Two World Financial Center.
DM: Government officials are yammering on about how they're going to track down those responsible, and I'm thinking, aren't those resposible dead? The assumption at this point is Bin Laden, I've heard, and just imagine the hassle bringing him in.
I'm just amazed and relieved nobody coordinated a nuclear bomb while they were at it. Obviously, they're ready, willing and capable.
I think we can very happy there's a Republican in the White House right now.
BG: I just talked to a friend of mine who was at the Pentagon when the plane crashed into it. He said it was like an earthquake, and that as they evacuated, Secretary of State Rumsfeld -- who he has never seen -- was hauling ass out with everyone else.
A D.C. police officer told a group of people that the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was shot down by a military aircraft. There have been sonic booms here all day from F-15s flying overhead -- evidently they had standing orders to shoot down any aircraft that didn't have a military escort.
Got this from Pam:
I'm okay, very shaken up. I was two blocks away. Saw the whole thing
and watched the building turned into a fireball. The second plane hit and
came from above our building and passed in front of our window. It was
like slow motion. I could see it slowly hit. Watched about 10 people
jump from 100 floors above. Was yanked into the hallway when the building
fell and our windows were shot out. We ended up having to sit in a room
outside the lobby with our faces covered with towels with the wounded
being worked on. They finally let us walk home but it ws terrible. We
had to hold hands and walk through the cloud to get out. It was so
horrible. A lot of people have kids at the daycare at WT1, it was the
major daycare center for downtown. When the building collapsed we were so
stunned and sat in the hallway then I heard the women on our floor
screaming that their children were dead. Awful. Who would do something
like this? Just really in shock right now.