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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 3270283" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>every year i reread it and i'm struck by different things. Like a suspenseful movie you've seen before, i still found myself getting tense while reading it. </p><p></p><p>And the little details are amazing. Things like the col. flying the plane standing it on it's tail during take off, pegging it at mach .94 and forcing the F16s to ask it to slow down, and the fact that the air force and secret service wouldn't let Bush order them back to DC. (I also loved the air force master sergeant yelling at the civilian about the reserve fuel tanks, and the base commander being made to wear his sidearm. )</p><p></p><p>But the most amazing, and perhaps scariest, thing was just how scared and in the dark everyone there was. No one knew what was going on. Communication failures, wrong information, etc. not reassuring in the least, but so very honest (and perhaps clearly what most of us felt, as well).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 3270283, member: 277"] every year i reread it and i'm struck by different things. Like a suspenseful movie you've seen before, i still found myself getting tense while reading it. And the little details are amazing. Things like the col. flying the plane standing it on it's tail during take off, pegging it at mach .94 and forcing the F16s to ask it to slow down, and the fact that the air force and secret service wouldn't let Bush order them back to DC. (I also loved the air force master sergeant yelling at the civilian about the reserve fuel tanks, and the base commander being made to wear his sidearm. ) But the most amazing, and perhaps scariest, thing was just how scared and in the dark everyone there was. No one knew what was going on. Communication failures, wrong information, etc. not reassuring in the least, but so very honest (and perhaps clearly what most of us felt, as well). [/QUOTE]
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