but it wasn’t going through. I got home within minutes, picked up the tv remote and the house phone, turned on the tv while dialing my mom’s work number, looked up and saw the first tower fall. My mom answered right afterwards. I didn’t know it at the time, but 2 family friends would die that day. Each a good friend of an uncle. One was a volunteer firefighter in NJ who happened to be in the city on business, the other was a jumper… That day changed me. I will NeverForget911