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On 9/11, I was evacuated from the Capitol. Hours later, I walked past the burning Pentagon, trying to get home. I didn’t know it then, but that walk would shape the next 25 years of my life. Do you remember where you were that day? Never forget.

My daughter, in a Mustang stuffed with colleagues, was stuck in a traffic jam trying at the Capitol amid warnings of an incoming hijacked plane. I stayed on the phone with her until they were safely en route to our home. 1/2

Having already evacuated another child from her workplace not far from the Pentagon, I fretted for my son, whose college campus was near the Norfolk Naval Station, a rumored target. 2/2