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Driving to Andrews AFB when the towers were hit. There was a higher alertness and lots of DOD planes were in the air when I entered the base but they still let ID card holders on post. When I arrived at my destination, the Pentagon had been attacked and I (along with everybody else) was trying to contact our people in that building. There was a rumor (ended up being true) that all bases were going to lock down so I left quickly so I could get home before my kids' schools ended. As I crossed back into VA on the WW Bridge, I could see the horrible, thick, black cloud of smoke up the Potomac. It was just hanging there, not dissipating at all.
My son's school kept the news from the children. My daughter's school did not. She and many of her classmates were in hysterics as they had parents who worked in the Pentagon.
Our lives were disrupted to an even greater degree in October of the following year when we had to deal with the DC Sniper for 3 weeks.
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....but some are more equal than others.
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