Getting ready for work (5:55 a.m. PDT), heard on the radio news about the first plane. Turned on the TV and saw the smoke billowing out of the north tower, and, having read about the B-25 that got lost in fog one night during WWII and crashed into the Empire State Building, my first thought was, 'how could a plane crash into a building on such a perfect day?'

And then, a few minutes later, I watched in horror as the second plane hit the south tower. Catching only a glimpse of the silhouette coming in from the right of the screen, and without a good size reference, I'd thought it to have been a 737, not a jumbo 767! At that point, I turned to my spouse and said, 'we are at war.' Sadly, all of this immense loss of life and billions of dollars in expense might have been averted had US airlines instituted processes similar to those of El Al.

I was driving to work that morning. I was at a stoplight on Kirkman Rd right in front of the entrance to Universal Studios when I turned on the radio and it was happening. When I got to work, all the TVs were tuned to it and it was all anyone was talking about.

I know I can't.

The inquiry into the bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has just started and sadly it is apparent that several opportunities were missed to stop the bomber.
I think the same could be said about the Twin Towers atrocity.