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like an arab terrorist. nobody does. i said three words. should i have said something else? what is more to the point than be wear of cockpit intrusion. they are the people who aswoek september 11th living ordinary lives. i was in my office sitting in that chair. reporter: suddenly thrust into one of the most horrific days in this nation s history. they said we have some planes. we clearly had a hijack in process. they said be prepared to shoot down the next hijack track. and they report ten miles from the white house. nine miles. eight miles. reporter: this is their story. if it was going to hit anything, it was going to hit us. reporter: the footnotes of 9/11. tuesday, september 11, 2001, dawn temperate and nearly cloudless. so begins the 9/11 commission report on what was about to become a day filled with dark skies. the first event of that day happened not in washington, boston or new york, but here in portland, maine, at the us airways ticket counte