I was Very Big with Child, and having a quiet morning with our toddler daughter. My husband called to tell me I should not drive near downtown LA. Wasn’t planning on it, I said. Why? He tried to tell me that the twin towers fell down and I just couldn’t picture how they could fall without hitting other buildings. “You mean they imploded?” I said. I got off the phone and went to the computer, not the tv, so I could keep my daughter from seeing it. Every news outlet seemed to be swamped. Then I remembered an independent news source I found out about in pro life political work: NewsMax. That worked. Up came a picture with scrolling updates.
Our baby was born a week later. I vowed to raise him to be a good, brave American man like the ones on flight 93. He’ll be 18 next week.
How scared you must have been. I know that your 18-year old knows and understands what happened that day.