Ann Compton on 9/11 Attacks: ‘The History Was So Important, I Couldn’t Lose Sight of That’

‘Suddenly, the day had a face that I knew’

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COMPTON: "The history was so important. I couldn‘t lose sight of that. But we got back to the White House, which had been evacuated earlier, and I finally opened my laptop and I looked at my own email. And the first message was from my two sons, bill and Ted, at vanderbilt university. Mom, our fraternity brother, Ted adderley, was on the 93rd floor of the first tower, and suddenly the day had a face that I knew. My kids, friends. And that‘s the"

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