More pix from before this blog started. Here it's summer in Washington DC, three months before the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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| Clare and Adrian fronting the White House - how American they look! |
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| The author and his wife - it's August 2001 |
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| Clare is doing that 'dubya' thing .. I think .. |
When the planes hit, I was in a meeting in Vienna, Virginia. We had another C&W office a few hundred yards away, and in its basement car park was
MAE East* (1919 Gallows Road). Would it be a terrorist target - to close down the global Internet? We didn't know but
Craig Stenberg and myself zoomed down there, fast-talked our way past an officious guard, and got the C&W people out.
Then most of us went home and watched it all unfold on TV**.
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* MAE East: the American east coast Internet hub (Metropolitan Area Exchange, East).
** Cable & Wireless, like other major telecommunications companies, played an important role in restoring communications in New York and Washington in the aftermath of the incident.
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