I had just returned from dropping my daughter off at kindergarten. My sister-in-law telephoned from work all upset, saying something about bombing.........New York........planes. I turned on the Today show, which I had turned off only an hour or so earlier to leave the house and nothing had been going on then at all. I don't think anything seemed real for hours. I remember feeling so detached and distant for a long while. Then sitting outside for ages, trying desperately to hear a plane go by overhead to prove that it was really not happening. I didn't hear any planes.
Later that day, when I watched again, it hit me fully what had taken place. Then I just stood in front of the TV and cried.