When I asked her about the atmosphere at the event, which is supposed to be the greatest, she said until that huge Virgin aircraft flew low over Melbourne and the MCG it was terrific.
She said to see the look on people’s faces, being a mixture of shock, surprise and fear, was unbelievable. We live under a very serious cloud of terrorism and most people immediately thought of the September 11 twin towers in New York.
Why didn’t the AFL announce to the 100,000 patrons what was about to take place?
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