Reply #11: I remember getting up about 8:00 am Pacific time.

[SeattleGirl]

My husband left a note on the bathroom mirror: "TURN ON THE TV" because he knows I don't watch TV when I first get up. So, I turned it on, and there is a split screen. On the left, the dust cloud from what had been Tower 1 and Tower 2. On the right, the Pentagon, smoke pouring out of it. I reached for the phone and called my husband.

He told me about the planes hitting the towers. I could not wrap my mind around it, but then asked, "What about the Pentagon?" He said, "The Pentagon? What are you talking about?" I told him there was smoke billowing out of the Pentagon too. I turned up the sound to hear that a plane had crashed into it. I told him, and all he could say was, "What??!!"

We got off the phone, and I just sat there, watching the television. When I saw the footage of the one tower that had been hit, and then the footage of the second plane hitting the second tower, I started to cry. It still, to this day, seems surreal.