I was in the barn, running late to leave for my genetics class @ nine, listening to Howard Stern on the radio...I was turning horses out and didn't hear all of what was said so I thought it was some kind of joke. The farm is directly behind the airport where the Air Guard is stationed (since we are 600 miles from NYC and the coast etc they were called up). I am so used to hearing commercial planes take off and land all day that it was surprising how much the absence of flights over the next few days really made for an eeiry silence; Broken every 45 minutes or so by the take off and landing of the fully loaded f-16's (they shake the ground when they take off with live weapons, I guess because of the added weight they use more power taking off).
Instead of class I drove to my parents house where my brother was sitting dumbfounded in front of the television...pretty much spent the next three days glued to the screen.
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