What were you doing, decided to do, or did do on 9/11/2001?

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35. My day

I had a dentist appt. when the first plane hit. As I checked out the office manager told the Dr. and I that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers in NYC. I got into the car and was listening to Howard Stern on KRock in NYC. They were discussing the details and watching TV live when the second plane hit. The play by play from that Stern show crew (live in NYC) was pretty amazing and VERY scary. I was only about 15 miles from the Pentagon when they announced it was also hit. That really hit home for me.

I drove straight home versus going to work and parked myself in front of the TV. A friend of mine from NYC was actually in DC and called me. We met for lunch to talk, ponder, cry. He had to drive back home later that day to NYC. It must have been devastating.

Two days after 9/11 I had to drive through NYC to get to Boston. I was driving the Jersey turnpike when the 7pm candle vigil was taking place. Every overpass had hundreds of people on it with candles. It was surreal. Watching the blue, grey and black smoke rising from the NYC horizon was awful and not seeing those two beautiful towers in ton the skyline was really mind altering.