9-11-01 where were you?

[Scurlogue Champ]

I was on the tractor sowing wheat......

It was one of the nice John Deere's with a radio and air conditioning, so I just listened to NPR all day and didn't see or talk to a single soul.

Didn't really realize the impact until I got back home that night and watched the news.

A couple of weeks later when I was cutting the stalks on the same tractor after we picked cotton, NPR had that orchestra thing from the United Kingdom that played Adagio for Strings in tribute to America.

I stopped the tractor and cried just thinking of how sad that was.

It really was one of the only times of my young life that I can remember feeling the gravitas of life as we know it as humans.