What were you doing 24 years ago?   I can remember when I awoke, and how I stayed in bed with my wife, Pearl, for at least five hours.   Somehow, and this was rather unusual, she was watching TV, and woke me up around 2:50AM Hawaii time, saying something was happening. Apparently American Airlines 11 had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46AM EDT. I was groggy, but the scene was New York City, and I actually saw United 175 crash into the South Tower at 9:03 EDT. Soon thereafter, President George W. Bush who was in a classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Florida,, was approached byAndrew Card, his chief of staff, and you could see him whispering into the ear of Bush something, who exhibited symptoms of quiet shock, and did nothing unusual for a long length of time. At 9:37 EDT, American Airlines 77 crashed into the Pentagon. It was announced at 9:45 that all U.S. airspace is shutdown, which means that all airplanes had to immediate...