It was a beautiful day for golf and Steve Aaron, then-deputy communications director for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, intended to enjoy a few rounds with coworkers who were enjoying a last leisure day before state senators and representatives returned to session in Harrisburg. Most folks still carried beepers in 2001, instead of cell phones. That morning, Sept. 11, high-level state workers on the golf course all started receiving beeper messages about the same time. Soon they learned that two planes struck the World Trade Center towers in New York. Aaron and others quickly went to the state Emergency Response Center in Harrisburg. “Not long after arriving, we learned that a plane somewhere above Pennsylvania was not headed in the direction it was supposed to be going,” Aaron told The Epoch Times. By that time, a third plane had crashed into the Pentagon in Washington. Next, they heard that United Airlines …