Ten years ago today ...

I originally wrote the part under the cut on Sept. 11, 2006, recounting what happened in 2001, but updated it today to add in some more memories and the AP bulletins, which AP added into a story it moved today detailing the attack minute-by-minute.

At the time I was a senior at the University of Alabama. I was the news director of the student daily paper, The Crimson White. National media were at our doorstep because they attempted to integrated the then all-white sororities (this finally happened a couple years later.)

( On Sept. 11, 2001, I woke up at 8:10 a.m., and I was late. )

What's so funny is that I never wrote all that much the bookend moment to this: The night that Osama bin Laden was killed. Both the original CW from 9/12/01 and the paper from 5/2/11 are seen above. In an eerie parallel, I was at the helm the night bin Laden was killed -- nearly 10 years, a thousand miles and a different person from who I was on 9/11. I really do need to write it down, and maybe I will later tonight, because it's so eerie how May 1 this year contrasted to 9/11.

Below is a photo page I did for today's Patriot-News. We've all done some truly amazing work this week. I'm proud to count this as one of them.