[personal profile] indigojo
Where was I on 9/11? I was working for a security company (then known as Securicor Omega, now Yodel) delivering parcels in east London. I drove a 7.5T Iveco and pulled into a housing estate in the Bengali area around Whitechapel to deliver a load of books to an Islamic publishing company called Awakening. The guy who received the parcels told me about the attacks because I didn't have a radio in my truck. I'd heard about the attacks several years before (which Omar Abdel-Rahman, among others, is still serving time for) so I wondered why he was telling me about that now.

I was very worried about the attack on the Pentagon, because I have a cousin (well, a second cousin) who worked there. However, she was not there that day. Later on, I had to deliver to Canary Wharf, and called base to ask if I should still attempt that delivery after what had just happened. They said yes. However, I could not get into it; I arrived near and found all the workers going home.
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