- September 11th, 2008, 8:29 pm
#195847
It was a gorgeous, sunny dry day in Lynchburg, around low 70's.....just perfect, for a while that is. I was working in the Hancock Athletic Center Football Office with the previous coaching staff. All the coaches were in a coaches meeting. I was sitting at my desk doing some work when Michelle our receptionist came in my office and apologized for interrupting but then said her mom just called her to tell her that an airplane had just crashed into the WTC in NYC. We immediately tried to get any news site online but couldn't because they were all generating so much traffic by then. We then turned on the radio the whole time thinking, should we interrupt the coaches to let them know? Well no sooner were we thinking about it when they were finally dismissed from their meeting. As soon as Ken walked in I told him and he immediately went to his phone to call his wife to check on her dad to see if he was okay because he worked in the Financial District in NYC (thankfully he was ok). A couple of hours later, Dr. Falwell asked that the whole Liberty community - students/faculty/staff get together in the Vines Center for a prayer service. How could such a beautiful day in central VA turn out to be ones of it's worse.