I'd started a new job just a few days before and was getting ready to go to work- I was going to the home office of a co-worker who worked from home. I remember Katie Couric on the Today show as I was dressing and putting on makeup saying that it was unclear why the plane was flying over lower Manhattan, maybe the pilot was ill. I wasn't in the office but at the co-worker's home - a vendor in Baltimore told us the office was closing and the entire staff was excused for the day. We pretty much kept working all day. When I got back to the office later in the day, they'd had the radio on almost all day. That's when I understood the magnitude of it. One of the passengers on the flight from Boston to L.A. was a part-time pastor at my church (Christ Church of Oak Brook, IL), so our senior pastor was interviewed and we had a prayer service the next evening. The most spooky part of it for me, like Karen said, was no airplanes- I live under a flight path to O'Hare so I'm used to planes all the time. I couldn't listen to the radio or watch TV for several days afterward, I just kept it on the classical station because that was about all I could handle.

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