I was getting ready to start a new job, and to top it off, it was my mom's birthday. She later told me that she cried because of it. She didn't want to have her birthday on this day, but thought it was sad. My wife came home for lunch and told me about it. The local radio station in Tucson, AZ (KFMA) morning DJ's stayed on till 6pm to help cover all of the details, since there was a lot of Air Force presence in Afghanistan during the time from the AF base there. Also there was security lockdown at the air base and the boneyard(where all of the old planes go to storage for the AF) and also since there is a lot of governement weapons building from Raytheon, Bombardier, and etc, there as well.
Got to love being in the desert where still no one in the US knows where Tucson is, but the terrorist do!
It was later reported that the terrrorist that crashed the plane into one of the Twin towers got their test plane (747) from the civilian boneyard in Tucson and even went to the University of Arizona for international studies to aquire the plane to learn how to fly it. Just for that reason. Govt' security didn't pick that one up, like they usually do at the UofA. You would have think that they would have learned about it from the Mar's rover project at the UofA security breach before the Mars Pathfinder mission that something might be going on with security...........
I was getting ready to start
I was getting ready to start a new job, and to top it off, it was my mom's birthday. She later told me that she cried because of it. She didn't want to have her birthday on this day, but thought it was sad. My wife came home for lunch and told me about it. The local radio station in Tucson, AZ (KFMA) morning DJ's stayed on till 6pm to help cover all of the details, since there was a lot of Air Force presence in Afghanistan during the time from the AF base there. Also there was security lockdown at the air base and the boneyard(where all of the old planes go to storage for the AF) and also since there is a lot of governement weapons building from Raytheon, Bombardier, and etc, there as well.
Got to love being in the desert where still no one in the US knows where Tucson is, but the terrorist do!
It was later reported that the terrrorist that crashed the plane into one of the Twin towers got their test plane (747) from the civilian boneyard in Tucson and even went to the University of Arizona for international studies to aquire the plane to learn how to fly it. Just for that reason. Govt' security didn't pick that one up, like they usually do at the UofA. You would have think that they would have learned about it from the Mar's rover project at the UofA security breach before the Mars Pathfinder mission that something might be going on with security...........
Chris Jaynes