What a day… I’ll never forget waking up to a few friends calling my “answering machine” and leaving messages to tell me to turn on the TV. The first plane had just hit. I was sleeping in as I didn’t have class until 11. We sat around my fraternity house as pretty much every professor canceled class in the Business building. I remember this Plainsman page like it was yesterday…..

I remember that morning. I was a sophomore, living in the CDV extension (Building F, first floor if anyone cares ) I woke up late that morning and the first thing I do every morning is check my email. I glanced over and noticed that my fraternity’s (Alpha Phi Omega) mailing list was on fire. People saying things like “pray, lots of people are dying today.” CNN.com was down, so I turned on the TV.

All my classes were cancelled. Me and my roommate spent most of the rest of the day just watching TV (although I did, at my Dad’s insistence, gas up my car, and I seem to remember paying like $3 something a gallon for it too at that station on Wire and University).

If TWER is interested, I have some photos from the planning sessions in the SGA offices for the memorial service that took place on the Samford lawn a few days later, as well as the memorial itself and some of the fundraising efforts on the concourse. I could probably dig them up.