I was on the tractor sowing wheat......
It was one of the nice John Deere's with a radio and air conditioning, so I just listened to NPR all day and didn't see or talk to a single soul.
Didn't really realize the impact until I got back home that night and watched the news.
A couple of weeks later when I was cutting the stalks on the same tractor after we picked cotton, NPR had that orchestra thing from the United Kingdom that played Adagio for Strings in tribute to America.
I stopped the tractor and cried just thinking of how sad that was.
It really was one of the only times of my young life that I can remember feeling the gravitas of life as we know it as humans.
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