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Ask anybody within a 60 mile radius of NYC about that day and they will have a story to tell you,
that either changed their life or someone's they knew.
My wife and i watched the first news report that morning,
and couldn't beleive what we saw as each plane hit a tower, and those towers fell in a cloud of dust.
My son-in-law is a 767 pilot for a major airline and left a NY airport at 8:00 am that morning ,
exactly the same time as the others had, on a non stop flight to Ca. and a full load of fuel.
We waited on the phone with my daughter, as there was rumor that an additional 2 planes had been hijacked and were still in the air.
Trying to keep her calm for almost 3 hours until he called and said he had landed safely in St Louis.
We lost 2 young friends in the towers, one 24 and another 28 and knew alot of others.
The parents of the 28 year old girl are very close friends of ours, and while they have come through it,and i don't know how, they are still caught up in the nightmare.
Most people i know, while not paranoid, keep their gas tanks full now,
as living in this area, close to the city among nuclear power plants, and chemical plants at least want to be minimally prepared.
The old feeling of "being safe" is gone, and the world as we knew it is gone forever.
God Bless all who have lost their loved ones.
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