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SPRINGFIELD \u2014 When then Capt. Deborah Loewer first informed President George W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that an airplane had struck one of the towers of New York\u2019s World Trade Center, she could offer no details.<\/p>\n
Because of that, the then director of the White House Situation Room added something she\u2019d learned from her lengthy Naval career: \u201cThe first report is typically wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, something \u2014 maybe the tone of Senior Duty Officer Rob Hargis\u2019 voice over the phone from Washington \u2014 made Loewer ask that a television be brought to the \u201chold room\u201d next to where President Bush would be reading to children at Emma E. Booker Elementary School.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never had a television,\u201d said Loewer, a graduate of Shawnee High School and Wright State University.<\/p>\n
It was just one more thing to carry.<\/p>\n
So at 9:02 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001 \u2014 a minute after she had tuned in CNN \u2014 Loewer found herself watching what millions of other Americans watched: A second plane crashing into the other tower.<\/p>\n
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