I remember where I was 10 years ago...
Palisades is an executive conference facility, and I walked by an executive conference room and they had turned the tv's to CNN and we all sat stunned after the first plane hit one of the towers. People thought it was an accident, and then we saw as the second plane hit. We were so close and so far away. We could see smoke across the Hudson, but were safe on the west side. My instincts were to check on my team. All was well, and I told them all to go home immediately and be with their family. This was no longer a day to work. I remember one employee continued to work, while his wife was looking for her brother- in-law and told him to stop immediately. I spent the next few hours checking on friends in the city, and one was missing for a while and we were worried cause she tended to jog down the west side. Turned out she was down there stunned but ok. Next we learned of the Pentagon, and Flight '93 and the world was in shock with us. I had been in the towers. I had stayed