(Written by kencraw)

I’ll admit it, I wouldn’t have remembered if it weren’t for CGB. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth remembering that today is the 3 year anniversary of the final tree-sitters being extracted from the last standing tree and it being cut down, clearing the way for the now nearly complete High Performance Center.

So where were you on oak-grove liberation (OGL) day?

As for me, I was in New York City looking at the World Trade Center site the day the final trees came down, having flown directly from the WSU game in Pullman to Springfield, MA to pickup my brother for a road-trip/tour of the East Coast on our way to the Maryland game the following weekend. Tuesday 9/9/2008 we took the commuter train in to NYC from Newark, NJ (cheap hotels 🙂 ) and toured the city.

While the final tree was coming down, I was looking at the cross that refused to fall on September 11th (click on the picture for a larger image):

OK, that’s a bit over the top 🙂 (but true)

Share your ‘where were you on 9/9/2008’ story in the comments.