9/11 20th Anniversary- Where Were You When Our Country was Attacked, the Twin Towers Fell and America was Changed Forever?

[Snowchild]

I was new to home care and just out of orientation. I was driving to my second patient of the day and listening to the local radio news station. They were reporting on the first plane hitting the tower, and my first thought was “an accident.” Then I heard them saying a plane hit the second tower. I remember thinking at the at that time this was a terrorist attack. 
When I arrived at my patient’s home, he had his TV on and that’s when I saw the smoke and fire coming from the towers. Throughout the visit, I saw both towers collapse in real time. 
The rest of the day was an unreal blur. A page(I carried a pager at the time) meant for someone at a different agency came over, directing their staff to stay at the clinic for now. 
I called my family to make sure they were okay, especially my sister who lived in Baltimore, as she was close to D.C. My friend and I had made plans to go out to eat that night to celebrate my birthday, which was 9/6. We went to Tully’s, which has several TV sets. The entire restaurant went silent when the President came on the air to deliver his address from the Oval Office. That night, I got home, threw up, and had nightmares of burning buildings and dying people. ?

I can’t believe it’s been 20 years, it really feels like it was yesterday.