![]() Obviously throughout the day, as we learned what had happened, the mood really changed. When we came inside, everybody’s really quiet, all the TVs are on, which is really unusual, and we just did not know what had been going on. And so when the first planes hit the towers, we were outside, and we had no idea. So I was out on the marching field because band was first block. So our show was about how the Japanese attacked on the morning of December 7, and on the day of 9/11, we were laying out on the field the mushroom cloud formation to symbolize our response to the Pearl Harbor attacks. Our show that year was called Tides of War because it was the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It’s peak marching season, so every morning we would be out on the football field – well, it was the practice lot, so it was the parking lot – and we would be laying out our show. I was a sophomore in high school, and I was in the marching band. The biggest impact I saw was at the airport security.” It became more difficult because the individuals who were responsible for were getting on with fake documentation, fake passports, fake IDS, fake licenses or whatever. ![]() The airport lines got longer because the screening process was more serious than it had ever been. Also airplanes, airport security, people were getting on the planes with different weapons. Security became more focused on government and federal buildings as a result of the damage that was done and the amount of people that it killed all at once. Security for federal buildings, security for government buildings because shortly before that or after that there was the Oklahoma bombings, the city where they bombed the buildings and killed a lot of people. I couldn’t believe my eyes, I thought it was a movie. ![]() I missed the first plane going through the building, but I got the second plane. It was a morning shift that I was working, and I watched live, on the news coverage, the second plane. Until I started realizing it wasn’t a movie, it was live. I saw this airplane fly through a building in New York. While I was in the waiting room, getting a cup of coffee and waiting for them to repair my tire, I was watching the television. I remember that day so well because I had a nail in my patrol car tire, and I went to a shop in Carrollton to get it repaired. “On September 11th, 2001, I was an eleven-year state trooper working on the Dallas North Tollway, more specifically George Bush Turnpike.
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