User blog comment:Candycoateddoom/Remembering Today - Ten Years Later/@comment-4060828-20110913220026

I was 16 and in High School. Was in the cafeteria with friends when one of them came in and asked if we had heard what was going on. Buses came and drove everybody home and I was in the living room with my mother and sister when the 2nd plane hit so I saw the 2nd Tower go down live.

Total numbness is the only reaction I recall, just shock and kind of watching everything unfold transfixed to the TV. I wasn't that worried about family members since we didn't have any in NY at the time (my grandparents had moved to Seattle long before and my Uncle moved to NY afterwards).

I did have a friend who lost his Uncle so I wasn't surprised when he told me he was attending the US Maritime Academy at the end of Senior year.