I worked nights driving for the St. Pete Times then, and had gotten up to check on my mail on my day/morning off. I had been up until 3 a.m. that morning watching and taping an X-Files Marathon. I turned on the TV for the hell of it and they were showing live footage of the fire in the first tower and then the footage of the plane that hit it.
I immediately called a buddy who I worked with who had the same days off and we both stayed on the phone talking and watching as the second plane hit. We were both a little freaked out and then said our goodbyes to call family members and see what they thought about it all. I lost track of how many friends and neighbors that I saw and talked to the next few hours as everything unveiled and the towers came down. Pretty much up until that point, I thought that it was an act of terrorism, but when the towers came down the way they did, I started to have my doubts. The memory of the planned demolition of the Soreno Hotel downtown came to mind and the way that it came down after all those charges went off was still too fresh in my mind I guess. Them buildings came down too precisely and too uniform to have been anything other than a controlled set of explosions. The way the media kept slamming us over the head with the same footage over and over again, pretty much convinced me that this was some kind of put-on.
I got some sleep finally, and when after I got up, a neighbor who worked for the credit bureau stopped by and I fired up my Windows 98 Flight Simulator. I entered a program to fly a 737 along the path that the first plane supposedly took. The program allowed for crashing into the World Trade Center. Doing the sharp bank that happened over the Hudson River that took the plane less than 200 feet above the George Washington Bridge was tricky as hell. It took me and my neighbor about 13 tries before we finally nailed it. We had to use the fuckin airbrakes and slow the jet to damn near stall speed and then jam the throttle to get it back on course. After that, hitting the tower was a piece of cake.
Now some people might think that a person has to have some pretty sick brains to do what we did, but I basically had to satisfy my curiosity and prove to myself that the 9/11 attacks were just an elaborate hoax to get our government in place for the inevidable oil crisis that is yet to come. From what I experienced from spending about 3 hours messing around on a pretty sophisticated computer program, the attacks on them towers were done by professionals with military training, not a bunch of illiterate fanatical camel jockeys who could'nt even fly a Cessna 172 without messing up.
