Audio Transcript

I got there as early as I could that morning; I had my cruise pictures from my vacation the week before. I had them all put in there and I was going to share all those with these gals when we met that morning. So we didn’t get started on this meeting until about 8:20 that morning. I would turn around and look at my computer screen, at the next item that we were to discuss. I’d rear back in my chair and let them chat about who’s going to copy this, and who’s going to do this. Get this ready for the banking department so they could hurry with their audit.

I had just turned around in my chair and kind of reared back and was getting ready to discuss the next item that I had mentioned when the bomb went off. It had to be longer but it felt like seconds. All the girls that were in the office with me disappeared. I thought they had ran out and left me alone. I started hollering, “Where are you guys? Where are you guys?”

Then, realization set in somewhat, and I realized that I don’t know where they are. They are gone. Eventually I found out, that when the bomb went up and everything started coming down, that the seven floors above us had took them down into what was eventually known as the pit.