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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was working in my Metro Center office when a colleague called and told me about the first plane. We saw the second plane hit and then watched the Pentagon burn from the roof deck.  My boss was on the Hill for meeting and was taken to an underground bunker. We were very concerned about what could be hit next and feared for his life as well as our own.

My boyfriend (now DH) was at his office next to the Capitol.  Phone lines and cell signals were jammed and it was very hard to make contact with anyone.  We lived to together in an apartment in White Flint and had no idea how we could get home seeing as Metro was shut down and traffic was at a standstill everywhere. He eventually walked to my building because it seemed the safer choice. I managed to convince the VP of my company to squeeze us in to his already overcrowded car and we spent hours and hours just trying to head north out of the city.

I'm someone who's very good in high stress/panic situations and kept my composure, except I can still vividly remember feeling a feeling I had never experienced before. [b] It was like the world was screaming but all I could detect was silence - similar to being exposed to a large blast/sound that temporarily renders you unable to hear[/b].[/quote]

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My office was on K Street and when I emerged from my office building onto K (near 20th Street) soon after the 2nd tower fell, the sidewalks were flooded with people and there was bumper to bumper traffic inching by. Visually there was so much frantic activity yet, there was this thick layer of silence. Almost complete silence.

PP, until reading what you wrote just now I have never been able to fully describe what it was like that morning on K St.[/quote]

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