9/11

There were victims, there were heroes, there were jerks.

I was living in Central NJ and teaching a computer class that day in Northern NJ. I was listening to NPR (WNYC) on the way to class. At 8:47 the host announced that a “small plane” had crashed into the WTC. Seconds later there was only static. WNYC’s transmitter was on the roof of WTC1. As I continued to class, more news rolled in.

I arrived a couple of …