Rep. Troy Downing remembers being on a moose hunt in rural Alaska when planes hijacked by terrorists attacked the Pentagon and felled the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, in the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.
“I was probably the last person on the planet to find out about it,” the Montana Republican said.
Over three days hiking through the wilderness, Downing began to wonder why none of the usual planes were flying overhead. It wasn’t until a Grumman Goose airplane came to pick them up from Lake Chikuminuk that he heard the news.
