I remember waking up and turning on Fox news just as they were reporting the first tower coming down. My 4 year old son had crawled into bed during the night and I woke him with a loud "Oh my God." My wife who was downstairs came running back to the bedroom after just turning on the news in the family room yelling at me to turn on the news. Desparately needing a shave, I threw on my uniform, kissed the wife goodbye, hopped into the patrol car. The radio was very busy, even out here in Pierce County, WA. Everyone wanted threat assesments for possible local targets especially in a military community they were plentiful. As it turned out I helped monitor a major local bridge on my day off. The skies on the approach to Sea-Tac airport and McChord AFB were eeriely quiet. We never got word on the grounding of air traffic but it was very noticible and uncomforatable. Many of the guys I worked with, and yours truly, over the next few days wanted to be in NYC...that much was clear.
It's amazing, and sad, how so many people have since lost that sense of fellowship. I think that makes me as mad as anything else regarding the libs "amnesia" about 9/11.