5 Years Hence

It was about 5 in the afternoon, as I remember and people were going home for the day. It got progressively quieter as people turned off their airconditioners. I was working at Jwaneng Mine in Botswana, way out in the Kalahari desert. My phone rang and it was my daughter, calling from Johannesburg. 'Dad.' she said, 'You'd better go home and turn on the TV, there's been some attack in New York.' I called our General manager, Steve Gould and told him to go and turn on CNN. I didn't have a TV at the time, so I went home and waited for VOA to come on as the sun went down. I must have sat listening to the car radio for three or four hours.
Horrified.