Here are several random impressions with direct quotes begun last evening as Donald Trump's Apprentice was truncated with the historic announcment of Osama Bin Ladin's demise. 

I am so proud of our President and the awesome redemption of our intelligence community, and rise now saluting the valor and sacrifice of the brave men and women who risk their lives 24/7 on our behalf as free people, "Rocking in the Free World...."

NBC broke into local programing at 9:45  pm CST this quiet Sunday evening and announced that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. 

It appears that President Barack Obama is preparing an historic announcment  with further detail and confirmation that the terroist ringleader has been executed  by U.S. Military personnel.

Initial NBC News reports indicated that U.S. forces have the body in its custody.  

NBC's David Gregory termed the development as, "breathtaking".

Certainly, the bulletin is momentous and welcome to a war weary nation.

Allow the writer a pause in order to salute the military,  the men and women in harms way who have tirlessly pursued Al Queda and its  tangential operatives.

At the same time threat levels world wide are high, as intelligence braces for any contingency retribution that may have been planned.

No doubt evidence of Bin Laden's demise will be thoroughly reviewed and substantiated, in order to emphasize authenticity of the remains.

The streets of New York and Washington, D.C. are said to be exuberant with spontaneous celebration.  Just four months short of the 10th anniversity of 11 September 2001, near-incalcuble resource and steadfast search and destroy operations have climaxed in the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

President Obama now speaks reminescently of the terror attacks of 9/11...nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us...Twin Towers, Shanksville, the Pentagon...we quickly learned that the operation had been carried out by Al Queda...that they had declared war on us...

...yet Osama Bin Laden had evaded us...I directed Director Penetta...

...today we launched and operation deep in Pakistan...BadaBa...no U.S. casualties...after a brief fire fight, Bin Laden was killed, we took possession of his body...

...The American people did not choose this fight...they brought it to our shores...
Americans understand the cost of war...we will be true to our values...

we give thanks....

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And it does not feel like a decade since I sat here in the same confines, tuned into CNBC

as the Tower burned over Mark Haines' shoulder.  By the grace of sometimes awkward  

serendipity, I'd been 95% cash with only a thin equity position, Haines going on about...." and for those of you just joining us (thumb over shoulder)...:" incredibly,chimmney-like black soot streamed skyward as sunlight glinted on an immense edifice....

I phoned her on the job, surprised that the so-called direct line went through one (a sweet young black femal voice) and then another older managerial female essentially screening the caller, "One moment..."

"I think it's World War Three."

"What?" she was uncharacteristicly (professionally) calm and incredulous.

"I'm watching CNBC and the World Trade Center...remember when mom and Sissy went to to New York?  The Towers. They think a plane hit it. You can see it. They're showing..."

"Yes?"

"They don't know what kind of plane it was. It's very suspicious. Like somebody flew right into it.  There's a woman saying...everything is plunging ... Can you come home? Get out of there?"

"We did not know that...Sandy said there's news on the internet...there she found it."

"Oh my God!"

"What?!"

"Another plane just hit the building! We're under attack!"

Medicine! Medicine! Medicine! I thought.