The Day the Towers Fell - Paperback

by Dan C. Boutwell (Author)

On the day the Twin Towers collapsed we were all in shock. We did not know much about the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. The idea that someone, anyone, would actually carry out a terrorist attack of this magnitude on the US homeland was foreign to the minds of most Americans. On that day, we went about our business doing the things that made our lives typically American. Businessmen were engaged in business, tourist went sight-seeing, and the labor force that cared for the infrastructure performed their menial jobs. Within the midst of it all extended two magnificent engineering and architectural accomplishments - the Twin Towers. In a matter of minutes they were gone. We were left with the horror of watching them fall. And we were left with the memory of that very moment. Forever, our lives will carry the memory of where we were when the Towers fell.

Author Biography

Dan Boutwell is a retired professional city planner. For thirty years he worked as a planning consultant with a planning firm he owns. His vocation took him into scores of Texas cities where he was exposed to the colorful Texas history. He is a student of American history, the West, the American Civil War, and anything dealing with Texas and/or Indian Territory. He is an ardent genealogist. His passion, however, is writing fiction. His studies in genealogy have fed his appetite for creative writing. He has authored a science fiction action novel, Dream Wanderer, a historic fiction novel, Across the River, and ghostwritten a book on Vietnam POWs. He has published a number of meditation pieces in a spiritual devotion magazine, and has over 300 short stories, essays, and non-fiction works stored in his portfolio on writing.com.