We will never forget September 11,2011

Of course I was not there at the time but Bobie and Caroline were. They lived in Clarksville, Arkansas during that time. Mom was just waking when her daughter Amy, who was getting the children ready for school, came crying into the bedroom that a plane had hit the first tower. Mom jumped up running into the living room thinking, as Amy was, that it was an accident but then the second plane hit and the world turned upside down. They sat crying glued to the television unable to take their eyes away feeling the sorrow that was happening so far away. The horror imprinted forever on their minds. Then the news of the Pentagon and we felt like America was truly invaded. Of course the children were not sent to school that day. No way could we separate with such things going on.

Then the silence........we had a busy flight pattern on a usual day and nothing. Eerie silence..then the bomber jets, cargo planes..Black Hawk helicopters flying overhead coming from the Louisiana air base. F-15's flying overhead guarding the nuclear plant about 20 miles east of us. Stunned as we tried to go about our daily routine. We felt as if invasion was imminent.

We will never forget..