Reply #1: I was asleep. It was 5:00 a.m. here or 4:30, whatever... [View All]

[Blue_In_AK]

My then-husband's niece called and woke us up to tell us the news. I watched the news all day (I work at home), kind of numb. We live close to the airports and are used to the sound of planes overhead, so the silence was kind of unnerving. We put out a flag, but took it down the next day because we started feeling suspicious about what was "really" going on (meaning no disrespect to the victims, but I felt very early on that ** was going to try to make political hay out of this sad event).