Odd Memory at a Graduation Celebration.

So, at the post-graduation party for a friend of my one lawyer friend from Missouri, who had just gotten her Masters and with whom I've hung out from time to time, I got to meet some of her other friends and relatives, including the family of her husband.

As it turns out, his brother's wife is from New Jersey, and her dad was in one of the Twin Towers, like a lot of people who went to her high school, since all of their families worked in Manhattan but commuted in from northern New Jersey.

They didn't know what happened to him at first, and then he showed up two days later on foot "covered in ash", since all the transportation was shut down and he just kept walking across the main bridges and down the roads and everything, till he finally got home.

She was also watching from across the river when the Towers fell, and could feel shockwaves through the ground.

She also also says her high school got a piece of one of the Towers to display, since so many people's families were affected, about thirty directly, whether their family members ultimately lived or not.