Working on at GWU, 4 blocks from the White House, watching the NY news unfold on a little black and white TV that a secretary on another floor brought up to the dean's suite that I worked in. A while later we watched the smoke rise from the Pentagon and freaked out that a 4th plane was heading this way. We didn't know whether to leave the building or stay. To this day, I have a fear of helicopters as it was all I heard in the weeks following. 9 years ago today I decided that it was time to leave DC...