When the first plane hit, it took several minutes for news channels to break away from their Tuesday morning talk shows.

I had just sent the front page of the small daily paper to the pressroom. No one really understood the magnitude of what we were watching on the newsroom television mounted above the sports desk at The Piqua Daily Call in Ohio, where I was working back in September 2001.

I glanced up in time to see another plane circling around.

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Having lived in New York City in the mid-1980s, I was familiar with the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and their location relative to nearby airports — Laquardia and Newark.

Automatically, I began thinking like a journalist, quickly organizing my thoughts: who, what

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