As I sit here in Colorado Springs, one of the nations military "nerve centers", I've heard several airplanes leave the Peterson AFB/Colorado Springs air complex. My scanner has the FAA announcement that all air traffic, including helo's and excepting airborne fire fighting in the northwest, is to cease.
President Bush is also headed "Westward" from Barksdale LA to a "more secure" undisclosed location until it is deemed safe for him to return to Washington. My gut feeling is that he is headed to NORAD via Peterson AFB.
In my lifetime only 3 events in US history have literally brought this nation to a Dumbfounded state of mind. The first was Pres Kennedy's assination. The second was the Challanger explosion, and now this. I truely believe that we as a nation have always thought that we are the safest place on earth to be. We don't have the fighting and hatred that some other places do.
Now for the second time in history something has happened to "American Soil". And that is almost totally beyond our comprehension.