It was scarey living where we live, northern NJ. That Thursday, the 13th, my husband and I left for Wildwood, NJ, for the annual fire convention. We were hesitant to go and once there, after my husband attended the required two mornings of the convention, we left. We usually stayed another day and a half. Our kids were 21 and 18, but we didn't feel comfortable being that far away from them. I sat alone glued to the tv in a motel room while he was at the convention hall, and it was sad and scarey. We saw military helicopters flying on the shoreline. When we were on our way home we saw a fighter jet over the parkway. Life had definitely changed as we knew it.
I was at my daughter's north of Houston, just grateful that no one in my family was on a plane that day. My son's bank building in Dallas was evacuated as it is the tallest I believe ..No one knew what could come next..but I think we worried more about the coasts and the Capital.I have read posts by members who were in NYC or in New Jersey on that day..It did change things forever and there are some..not on this forum..who seem to want to deny or forget it ever happened! Not I..
I am old enough to remember going to church with my mother to pray when we learned that DDay had begun in WW2.
Boy....I can really understand how scary it must have been, being so close and not knowing what else was out there.