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9/11 Replay

I don't know what anyone else is watching this morning, as far as 9/11 retrospectives. I'm watching the CNN.com Pipeline real-time replay of their coverage from that morning (Fox News is doing the same thing online). It's very difficult to watch. Complete chaos. Witnesses on the phone panicking. Anchors speculating that maybe a navigation system was malfunctioning. A complete inability to comprehend that a second plane had hit, even though it happened live, on camera.

I actually never saw this initial coverage, because I was in D.C., not in front of a TV, and then we were all evacuated. I watched the towers fall on a portable TV some guy had on my bus.

9:25: The word terrorism is breached for the first time I've heard this morning, in a quote from an unnamed government official.

9:31: President Bush makes his first remarks, sounding extremely shaken.

Well, you get the idea. Again, it's very difficult to watch. Much more so than I thought it would be. But for those remembering this day, five years on, maybe you want to tune in.