Sept 11, 2005

entry for september 11, 2005 sep 10, '05 11:39 pm for everyone Well, it's been a while since I wrote in here. Lets see, I went back to work last week, and that was rough. Laurie and I were on the truck together for 5 years, then when I got this local job, she was always nearby, so we could meet for breakfast, and she'd always be waiting to meet me at the door in the evening, so it really hit home. T went to the baby doctor on Wednesday, and has gained 15 oz. in a week. She now weighs in at a whopping 6 pounds, 8 ounces, and is growing. The Doctor was thrilled, she's a tiny vietnamese lady named Lin Doan-Pham, and I'm really pleased with her so far. Since today is sept.11 and some of you may not know, I'll tell you what we were doing on 9-11-01. We started the day on I-80 in eastern Indiana, right at the Ohio state line, heading east to New Jersey. I turned on the cb to find out what was going on around the state line, and heard some driver talking about "dirty ragheads", I said "Can't we all get along?" He asked if I'd heard the news, and told me to turn on the radio. That's when we heard about the first tower. by 9:00 we were pulling into the truck stop at Toledo, and they were telling all traffic to get off the road. We had just walked into the resaurant when the second tower was hit. Laurie started crying, because she'd been having dreams about a fiery crash, and lots of bodies. We sat and watched till about noon, then got the word that refrigerated trucks (which we were) going east could go on to Carlisle, PA. So, a bunch of us headed out that way. We drove right past the crash in Pa. on the turnpike, funny thing about that. They were telling us that the plane had crashed east of Pittsburgh, and south of the turnpike. We were driving along, looking right for signs of the crash, and went right past it. It was within view f the road, but on the north side, to our left. The state put the information out wrong, in order to stop people from slowing or stopping traffic to rubberneck. We got to Carlisle, Pa. about 3:30 that afternoon. (Oh, while we were in Toledo, it was broadcast on local news that an airliner had been shot down in the great lakes, headed to Chicago, and that another one was taken over by the passengers and landed safely in Cleveland, neither of these items ever made National news, but we saw the one in Cleveland) That night we were sent on to New Jersey, where we were checked at the Delaware river, given a white sign with a big red dot in it to put in the windshield, dropped our trailer at the reciever, picked up an empty trailer, and spent the next three weeks shuttling I/V meds from Knoxville Tn. to Jersey City on what they called the "Red-Ball." ©F.Pierce 9/11/05