It was the end of first period science class. My students were coming into the room when a fellow teacher came up to me and told me a plane had hit one of the towers. I asked,”An accident” She told me I don’t think so. We had cable in all the classrooms and watched until the Pentagon was hit. That is when we were directed to turn off all media.. The 177th air group is stationed15 miles from us and every time one flew over we would all stop and wait till it flew over. About 1/3 of the students were taken home by parents. One teacher lost her nephew who worked for Morgan Chase, and another teachers sister was saved at the Pentagon because their office was still being remodeled. My sister an RN was on standby to go to DC to help in the burn units.
My brother was an emergency room nurse in Brooklyn. Went to his hospital and waited, and waited, for the expected flood of casualties. None ever came.