[Patty]

I was in St. Louis on a business trip. Had flown in late (around 11PM) the night before only because I couldn't get an early flight in on 9/11 to make my meeting on time. Needed to pick up my colleague at the St. Louis Airport at 8:30 AM arriving from Chicago. Saw the second plane hit while at my hotel room as I was checking out to go get her....I too , told her what had happened when she landed that we were going to war. I was also on the phone to JohnZ(hubby) as his office did not have a TV and limited outside internet access. I tried to keep him updated on information as I saw it happening. We went over to where our meeting was to be held and proceeded to try to get transportation back to Chicago and Atlanta respectively. We couldn't get another rental car anywhere so I ended up dropping her off at the St. Louis train station where she proceeded to Chicago and I kept the rental car and proceeded to drive east to Atlanta non-stop. There were very few cars on the road, mostly just truckers and I clearly remember many of them flying flags that day on their trucks.
I was never so happy to come home that day...