Do you remember where you were on 9/11?

[SimonDoom]

It's hard for me to believe it's been 24 years. I remember that moment I found out and that day so well. It was so shocking I couldn't pay attention to anything else the whole day. The Internet was slower then. Information came in more slowly and it took a while for some of the news videos to load. My parents were in another part of the country and couldn't fly home so they rented a car.

 

[iwatchus]

My other memory is not from the day but a few days later. My step mother had been in Canada on a vacation with some friends. They had been driving to the airport when the US closed its airspace. I lived in the US but only a few hours drive from where she was, so I drove up a few days later to bring her back across the border, where she could rent a car and drive back home. I explained to the Canadian border guard what I was doing; he suggested that I might want to leave my step mother there. The crossing was easy and empty. There is frequently a large backup at the crossing there.