By LEW K. COHN
Managing Editor
HIGHLAND LAKES NEWSPAPERS
It was a Tuesday morning in September and it was deadline day for getting the Bowie County Citizens Tribune out the door. I was in the office early, like I usually am when it is deadline day, and the phone rang around 7:50 a.m.
“You won't believe this!” my (now former) wife said. “A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. It's on Good Morning America.”
“That's horrible!” I said. “Let me know if you hear anything more about it.”
I ended the phone call and went back to work on the paper, thinking a plane crash in New York City was tragic, but would have very little impact on my job locally as managing editor of a small-town Northeast Texas newspaper.
Then the phone rang again at a little after 8 a.m.
