Reply #56: I live about 50 miles due north of NYC, near the flight path

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of the planes coming down from Boston.

It was an exquisite morning, a perfect morning. I was watching the Today Show and it was cut into with a newsflash from local NBC news. They were reporting that a plane hit the WTC. They were interviewing on the phone a witness who described the plane as a small jet. I was watching in shock and then saw the second plane hit. I knew then it was a deliberate attack. Not too long afterward I lost tv reception. I then surfed the cable networks and CNN was covering it. When the first tower went down I got on the phone and called my ex-husband. He works in midtown Manhattan and I was told he was out of the office for a meeting. Paranoia set in and my older son (he was home from school sick) and I were on tenterhooks for 3 hours until my ex called and said he was in a meeting near Grand Central which is in midtown..and he was fine.

I recall reports of planes being missing and also that all planes were being called down to land. About an hour after that, my son and I heard a jet and we ran onto my deck. We saw a plane heading due south and we both had the same thought and my son verbalized it...Mom, where's Indian Point (the nuclear power plant)? I told him it was southwest of here. We both held our breaths until we saw the plane move southeast.

To this day I believe that if "terrorists" really wanted to harm us, they would have targeted Indian Point........ and to this day, there is hardly any protection of that facility.

Interesting HBO documentary, Indian Point, Imagining the Unimaginable by Rory Kennedy
http://tv.nytimes.com/show/172605/Indian-Point-Imaginin...