Still incredibly vivid and upsetting to me. I had the day off, and was washing my car in the garage, radio tuned to 98 Rock, a Baltimore station who started reporting it. After listening for 15 minutes or so, I decided to go inside and turn the TV.
I had a restaurant outside the main gate at Fort Detrick, MD, an Army research facility that was rumored to be a possible target for Flight 93, we all know how that turned out. I called the Maryland State Police to ask if I could travel to the store via (30 miles South). They advised me to stay put, which was nerve racking.
I had another restaurant in the Alexander Hamilton Travel Plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike. Directly across, from the Manhattan Skyline. You could clearly see the twin towers from their dining room window. I'll never forget the first time there and not seeing those towers. Years later, staring out that same window, a truck driver having dinner said "still makes me angry". Guess he could read my body language.
We had our flags at half-staff today, but I saw plenty of places that didn't. Sad.