 9-11 I was preparing along with two other response coordinators an exercise that we were going to have on 9-12 and in preparing the room we do what coordinators always do. And another coordinator Doug Weaver came in and he said are you watching what's going on in New York? We turned on the TV monitor and saw what was going on at the World Trade Center. And we talked about how odd it seemed on such a beautiful day that an airplane could make the mistake of hitting a building that big. But it wasn't very long before the next building was hit and then we immediately all the four of us knew it was time to do what we do. The problem is there was no plan for this. And I got to thinking about Dwight Eisenhower talking about plans are useless but planning is essential. And that's what we do in emergency response. You never get the emergency that you plan for. But we all knew what we needed to do and I found myself within 20 seconds in the operations center with the ops officers and they needed somebody to serve as a monitor to brief the chairman, brief senior NRC managers about what was happening and serve as a master of ceremonies on that conference bridge and it turned out to be me. And we were probably on for 45 minutes or an hour. We saw more developments. There was talk of the State Department maybe being attacked. The Pentagon had been attacked. The other World Trade Center, one of the towers had collapsed. And finally the chairman said I'm coming down to the ops center. So it was up to Karen Jackson and myself and the other responders there to activate the center, asked people to come back in because the government had just closed itself. People were evacuating the buildings for their own safety. But the professionalism of our folks, they all came back in, did their duty without any plans. We found the right thing to do, common sense, good training, good management. We got through it and I was very proud to be a member of the NRC that day.