Re: From Washington, DC

[dbalsam <dbalsam@PEN.K12.VA.US>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, dbalsam wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:44:24 -0700
> From: dbalsam <dbalsam@pen.k12.va.us>
> To: pmilbury@ericir.syr.edu
> Subject: From Washington DC
>
> Peter,
> Since I sent you my information here in Washinton, I thought I would
> send you the email that my husband sent to our family and friends.
> My first grade class only has 7 kids now, lost one during the story.
> Debbie Balsam
> Taylor Elementary
> Arlington, VA
> dbalsam@pen.k12.va.us
>
>
> > It's now around 2:00 pm, just came back from a Sam Adams lunch,
needed to
> > relax.
> >
> > Streets are less crowded now, and there's a state of emergency,
which means
> > I should be at home.
> >
> > Will tell u now that I was less than 1 mile from the Pentagon when
the
> > airplane hit-- I was at a meeting in a Treasury Building, right next
to the
> > 14th Street Bridge-- The Pentagon is on the other side of the
river.  I did
> > not hear or see anything.  When the Treasury building was closed, we
went
> > outside and could see the smoke from the fire-- large volume and
some gray
> > but mostly black --
> >
> > We walked back from the 14th street bridge (too nervous for the
subway),
> > past the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (prints $20 bills) and the

> > Holocaust Building, not the buildings we wanted to be near, to our
offices
> > at 20th and K St-- the roads were gridlocked, police everywhere,
secret
> > service in heavily reinforced trucks-- saw a couple of fighter jets
flying
> > around the Pentagon, plus a couple of helicopters-  All National
Monuments
> > and federal buildings were closed, and heavily guarded-
> >
> > At one point the police needed to get a couple of cars through an
> > intersection, so they had all pedestrians move back next to a
building to
> > let the cars go over the sidewalk.  Then I realized that I was next
to the
> > World Bank, not a comforting thought.
> >
> > It was somewhat surreal-- it's around 82 degrees today, a beautiful
blue
> > sky, perfect weather-- and on the way back, sirens everywhere,
gridlock, 50
> > of us at one time standing around a car parked on Constitution Ave
with the
> > radio news full blast, listening as things unfolded-- like a
disaster
> > movie, only it was real.
> >
> >
>

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