I relive my feelings from that day when I (as always on 9/11 the last five years) reread Mudcat's first thread about the attack. I couldn't watch TV for two or three hours so reading that thread silently (and googling a news-site) was how I experienced it.

When I came home later (with my then 4 years old daughter) I switched on the TV and thought for a long moment whether I would let her watch or not. I still don't know whether I made the right decision but I let her watch (the impact of the second plane was replayed then every 5 minutes or so). She was very silent for some time and then asked "were there still people in tha planes?". When I had to say "yes" I cried for the first time. And that's up til now the only time she has seen me cry.

Wolfgang