It was a beautiful day for golf and Steve Aaron, then-deputy communications director for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, intended to enjoy a few rounds with coworkers who were enjoying a final leisure day before state senators and representatives returned to session in Harrisburg.
Most folks still carried beepers in 2001, rather than cellphones. That morning, Sept. 11, high-level state workers on the golf course all started receiving beeper messages at about the same time. Soon, they learned that two planes had struck the World Trade Center towers in New York.
