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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freshman at GW, second week of classes.  I had just walked back from my 8am French class and a bunch of people in my dorm were saying a plane had flown into the WTC. Went upstairs and turned on the tv just at the moment the second tower was hit.

I was in my dorm room wondering if I should go to my 10am dance class when I felt the impact of the plane hitting the pentagon. Then we saw the smoke. I called my mom and woke her up (in California). She told me I must be seeing a new movie or something on tv but then I told her to turn on the news and she believed me. 
School hadn’t said anything about cancelling classes so I walked to my dance class. Got there to learn that yes, classes were cancelled for at least the day. 
Walked home and could barely squeeze myself between the cars trying to get out of the city. We didn’t know what to do but we kept hearing rumors that the White House was the next target and we live about 4 blocks away.

My dad was still in DC for work after dropping me at school. He was supposed to be on AA flight 77 (Dulles to LAX) but had postponed his trip a few days earlier because he had a meeting that Tuesday morning - at the Pentagon. He was driving there when he saw the plane hit, he immediately turned around and went back to the firm he was working with and ended up driving a colleague all the way to New Carrollton metro station where he had parked his car. Dad didn’t have a cell phone and my mom and I were worried about him until he finally got back to his hotel @4pm and called one of us. I remember my mom was furious at him that he hadn’t tried to reach us but of course he and everyone else was just trying to do their best that day.
 
My dad came and picked my roommate and I up and took us to dinner that night - we went to La Chaumiere and I think we might’ve been the only people there.

It was a surreal and very scary day for 18yo me, just starting out on my adult journey. A boy on my floor lost both his parents that day - they worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. I remember he left school the next day. My uncle got stuck on the PATH on his way to a meeting at Cantor. He later told me that he was running late and had been annoyed and then so grateful. The big almost coincidences were really scary to me and I started getting panic attacks that fall.

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I am so, so grateful your dad and uncle were OK. The incredible coincidences around your father's missing Flight 77 and then not yet being inside the Pentagon, and you uncle's nearly being inside the towers--I can see how thinking about those things would drive one into panic attacks. I hope you got help for those. What an experience to have at 18 in a new city, one that suddenly is under attack. I am also thinking of your classmate who lost both parents in one fell swoop. [/quote]

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