Lewis County Herald - Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898

Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, I was a newly minted warehouse supervisor for a farmers cooperative.

I can remember almost exactly where a customer’s truck was parked when I overheard him telling one of my co-workers something or another about a plane crash up north.

A few minutes later, I received an urgent (landline) phone call from my wife. She had been watching NBC’s “Today” and saw breaking coverage of the suicide attacks on the Twin Towers (and other targets).

In my first few weeks as a supervisor, I made a practice of submitting a daily report about warehouse acti...