I HAVE MY OWN “CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND OPINIONS AND SCIENTIFIC FACTS THAT I IMAGINE ABOUT THAT HORRIFIC DAY.

I WAS BUSY, RUNNING MY LITTLE COURIER/DELIVERY COMPANY AND HAD A GROUP OD PACKAGES, AS I HEADED UP THE DALLAS NORTH TOLL WAY TO PICK UP OTHER PACKAGES TO TAKE TO DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. I HAD MY RADIO ON, AS I USUALLY DID, AND SUDDENLY THE BIRDS SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE SKIES, THE CARS STARTED PULLING TO A STOP AND THE DAY WHICH USUALLY GAVE ME MANY SOUNDS AND NOISES OF MODERNIZATION AND YET, “TOTAL SILENCE”; SEEMED TO PERMEATE THE WHOLE MOMENTS… I COULD HEAR MY WRIST WATCH “TICKING” AS MY LEFT ARM HELD THE TOP OF MY STEERING WHEEL, 1ST TIME I HAD EVER NOTICED HOW LOUD, MY WATCH COULD TICK; OR WAS MY HEARING SUDDENLY “SUPER Spidey HEROIC”??… THE VOICE ON THE RADIO STATED “THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER HAS BEEN HIT!” AND THEN, SECONDS LATER “oohh, THE OTHER TOWER HAS ALSO JUST BEE HIT, TOO!” …/WHY DID TEARS WHEL UP INTO MY EYES AS I COULD SEE PEOPLE IN THEIR STOPPED VEHICLES CRYING AS THEIR HANDS WERE PLACED OVER THEIR MOUTHS, I COULD ACTUALLY HEAR “GASPS AND ANGUISH MURMURS”, MAYB I WA IN A DAZE OR DREAMING, I WONDERED “IF” I WAS DEAD AND THINGS SEEMED TO BE MOVING IN SLOW MOTION? AND WHETHER I HAD HAD A WRECK AND JUST DID NOT REALIZE WHETHER, I WAS GOING THROUGH THE TRANSITION AND, NO JOKE, THIS THING “HURT US ALL”, IN MANY WAYS.

I INSTANTLY CAME BACK TO MY OWN REALITY AND FACULTIES, “I CALLED MY WIFE”, WHO WORKED FOR THE CITY OF DETROIT, AND DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE “GM Renaissance CENTER”

I ASKED HER ABOUT MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, DAVID, SHE CAME TO HER SELF AND TOLD ME SHE WOULD CALL ME BACK (DAVID WAS STATIONED AT THE PENTAGON)… ‘GOD” IS GOOD, BECAUSE THAT PARTICULAR DAY, DAVID HAD SWITCHED DAYS OF WORK, WITH A CO-WORKER AND HAD “NOT” BEEN THERE WHEN THESE PLANES HIT THOSE BUILDINGS. “BUT”, MY WIFE WAS ABLE TO GET HIM ON THE PHONE, AND CALLED ME BACK, A FEW MINUTES, LATER, DAVID HAD TO THROW ON HIS CLOTHES/UNIFORM AND RUSH TO THE PENTAGON, AND WE COULD “NOT” CONTACT HIM AGAIN FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

THEN I CALLED TO CHECK ON MY BABY SISTER, WHO WORKED AT “RED RIVER ARMY DEPOT”, AND I COULD NOT REACH HER; SHE HAD TO GO DOWN INTO THE “BONKERS” AS THERE WAS “HIGH LEVEL ALERTS” THAT THE LARGEST MUNICIPAL PLANT IN AMERICA, WOULD BE A TARGET?? WE COULD NOT TALK TO HER FOR A FEW DAYS…

I ALSO CHECKED ON MY NIECE, JANA HAYDEN, WHO WAS ALSO A WORKER AT THE PENTAGON; SHE HAD STARTED TO WORK, AND WAS TOLD TO TURN AROUND AND GO HOME, AS SHE WAS STUCK IN FREEWAY TRAFFIC….

SO, THEN I WAS CONTACTED BY MY DISPATCHER, AFTER I CALL IN, AS THE LINES WERE JAMMED FOR A FEW MINUTES…SLOWLY I WENT TO DROP OFF MY OTHER PACKAGES AS OTHERS SLOWLY HEADED AND MOVED AGAIN SLOWLY UP THE TOLL WAY TOWARDS PLANO, TEXAS… WHEN I DROPPED OFF MY PACKAGES AND PICKED UP THE ONES HEADED FOR DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, I WAS TOLD TO JUST “TAKE THEM HOME WITH ME” THE ‘NATIONAL AIRSPACE WAS “SHUT DOWN” AND WITH MY “BONDED COVERAGE” I WAS “OK” TO HOLD THOSE PACKAGES UNTIL THE NEXT DAY… THAT NEXT DAY, I WAS UP VERY EARLY, AS USUAL AND WAS TOLD THAT “BECAUSE I HAD MY “SECURITY BADGE/CLEARANCE”, AND BECAUSE THE “DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BOARD” WAS MY CLIENTS AND CUSTOMERS, THAT I WOULD CLEAR THROUGH “CUSTOMS” AND WOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE DELIVERIES, AS THE “ONLY” MINORITY CONTRACTOR/SUB-CONTRACTOR COMPANY TO BE ABLE TO PARK CURB SIDE, PRETTY MUCH INSTANTLY, WHILE “OTHERS” HAD TO PARK ACROSS THE STREET IN THE PARKING, AND DOLLY THEIR PACKAGES, I FELT VERY BLESSED AND HUMBLED/HONORED, BUT VERY MUCH AS ANGRY AS ANY OTHER AMERICAN AND “RED/WHITE/BLUE” CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW MILITARY LIFE HAS BEEN WITHIN MY FAMILY, MY BIG BROTHERS, 3 OF THEM, MY OLDEST SON: KARODERICK “ROD” REECE, MY NEPHEWS AND COUSINS, AND MANY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MATES, WHO ALL SERVED…ALL OF THE 1ST RES-PONDERS THAT I HAVE KNOWN/AND STILL DO KNOW… THE WAYS THAT THIS NATION/COUNTRY HAS BEEN TORN APART, LATELY, BY A CERTAIN PERSON AND HIS HENCHMEN, IN THE WHITE HOUSE, IS TRUE/TRULY A “SPITTING” AT THE HONOR OF THE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR COUNTRIES, FROM ALL NATIONALITIES, AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA TO SOMEHOW “FIND IT’S TRUE CREED” AND LIVE OUT ITS TRUE IDENTITY AND IDEALS OF “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness FOR ALL, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL”.

MY “Special Martial Trained” brother-in-law obtained a “Very Rare” form of Cancer, later, of which there was no known cure. An “experimental” had to be tried upon him, where the stem cells at the Bone marrow levels had to be harvested out from his body and “Super Charged” or “ZAPPED” and then injected back into his marrow level to pinpoint the Cancer cells..WE Cried, as we thought we would loose him…GOD is Fantastic, as he finally got “Released” of his 23 years of Military duties with a clean bill of cancer free check up and a miracle living these days with our sister-in-law in Maryland areas.

NOW Y’ALL CAN BELIEVE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO, I HAD “ZERO(0)” IDEA THAT, WHEN I 1ST WROTE THIS SERIES AND STORIES, THAT MY “BROTHER-IN-LAW” WAS GOING TO GET SOO OOOSICK, THAT WE ALMOST LOST HIM, AND “IF” YOU GET THE BOOK AND READ IT, IT’S JUST CRAZY HOW CLOSE TO THE TRUE/TRUTH LIFE STORY, THE “SCI-FI” STORY REALLY WAS??!!….

FACT IS THAT DAVID DEVELOPED HIS RARE CANCER AND SO HAS MANY, MANY OF THE SURVIVORS OF GROUND ZERO, AND ALL THESE YEARS LATER, NOT “ONE(1)” WORD AS THE WHETHER A “DIRTY” BOMB OR “W.O.M.D.”, AKA “WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION” WAS DISPERSED WITHIN THOSE “CLOUDS OF SMOKE AND DEBRIS”..??!!

OK, JUST MY OWN “CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND FACTS OF OBSERVATIONS AND MEDICAL REPORTS AND RECORDS, AS SAME AS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN OUR MILITARY PEOPLE WERE “NOT” INFORMED ABOUT GETTING “HIT BY AGENT ORANGE”!! AND OTHER STUFF!!!