The three of us came into this world from entirely different directions, and from vastly different backgrounds. The difference is that you’re an officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, and you have unique skills that will be tapped to help determine the source of the attack, the nature of the immediate threat to the nation, and our country’s best chances for preventing a recurrence. Just about all the emotions are the same.
You’re not unlike the hundreds of millions of your fellow citizens of America and the world who are trying to come to grips with the same thing. The United States of America is under attack. The charred gash in the northwest face of the Pentagon, just minutes up the George Washington Parkway from where you and your colleagues are still coming to grips with what had happened, is smoldering. The wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 has turned a peaceful field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, into a horrifying disaster site. Rescue crews are dealing with the unthinkable amid the massive heap of acrid rubble at Ground Zero in New York, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stood that morning. Imagine that it’s the late afternoon of September 11, 2001.
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