Chapter Five
One of the first officials to arrive on the scene was an FBI Agent named Tom Harper, and, after viewing the scene in front of him, his first priority was to call for assistance, especially from medical facilities in the D.C. area.
Harper was a senior agent inside the Bureau who had been involved with several terrorist incidents, but none as devastating as the one he now witnessed.
As he viewed the site, his mind wandered for a second or two to his impending retirement when he would no longer have to partake in visions of such destruction and hatred.
His major concern was to help get the injured to medical personnel arriving on the scene while trying not to disturb as much of the evidence as possible.
Trying to gather uninjured witnesses in a location where they could be q
