“I got to go home and kiss my wife and hug my children,” NWACC Director of Construction Technology Ray Taylor said. “There were a lot of people that didn’t.”
ARKANSAS, USA — “It was a moment of panic,” Ray Taylor said. “We all panicked.”
Taylor is a 21-year air force veteran. He currently serves as the Director of Construction Technology at the Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC).
He said he was an intern at the Pentagon when it was struck by a plane on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
“We were all watching on television and what was going on in New York, and somebody joked and said, ‘Well, I’m not going outside today,’ you know, because we’re sitting in a pretty big target.”
Taylor had already been in the service for a decade. An officer at the time, he said he was looking to get a master’s degree …