I was at Essayons and it was around 2130. Earlier that day in formation we were told that the ACE had lost a classified laptop so when we were put on alert (only my 2nd in area 1) i thought it was utterly ridiculous. Soon after a soldier came running past me and asked if i had seen the incident, which sounded like pure fantasy to me, but if it was on t.v. i'll take a look. i couldn't believes what i saw. i felt nothing but amazement. well, the rest of that night was drawing weapons, setting up defense positions, laying down ta 312s and learning how to kill people with yours truly as a practice dummy. welcome to the most F'ed up tour of korea.

It's amazing how anyone from our generation will be able to tell you what they were doing the morning of 9/11....kind of sad too.

Matt had just walked out the door and I was putting on my boots before I went to finish clearing post. I remember that I sat for probably 20 min with only one boot on and the other one in my hands. i didn't care about making my appointments right then. I was just in a state of shock.

My husbands car didn't have a radio so he had no idea what had happened until he arrived at the SCIF and saw everyone huddled in the MP shack.....