ダニジョーのインスタグラム(dannijo) - 9月11日 22時59分

September 10th, 2001, was the last day of a certain kind of American innocence. The country was more concerned about the end of summer vacation than the threat posed by terrorists. The big movie at the mall was "The Musketeers," which had just taken over the box office lead from "Jeepers Creepers," and Beyoncé was thinking about ditching her band for a solo career.
The major stories in the news were about unemployment, wildfires and a missing Congressional intern named Chandra Levy. A teenage baseball player became a hero, and then a villain, after he pitched a perfect game at the Little League World Series. There were also inklings that something might be amiss at Enron, a major energy company. Americans had become all too familiar with "hanging chads," but few had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
While the nation drifted through the dog days in the weeks prior to 9/11, 19 terrorists were in the final stages of planning a series of attacks that would kill thousands of people on September 11th. Much of the federal government seemed to have been in a summer daze, missing the warning signs of what would become the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil. While some in the intelligence community raised red flags, the White House had brushed off warnings of an impending attack and the Central Intelligence Agency was failing to share information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the terrorists' travels.
For Karen Hughes, counselor to President Bush, September 10th was a day of celebration and relief. It was her wedding anniversary. She and her husband, Jerry, dined at their favorite restaurant and reviewed the drama and chaos of the previous months. There'd been the long presidential campaign, the disputed election, the move to Washington. They had to move a second time when the first house didn't work out. Then a freak summer rainstorm had flooded their basement, soaking their possessions.
All of that was finally behind them. "We've survived the worst," Karen said to her husband as they eat dinner that evening, unaware of the horrors that would unfold the next morning. "Things can only get better from here." - via @911remembrance
?: Jake Rajs

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