I was waiting in the ATL airport waiting to get on my plane to Ft. Lauderdale to go get a car. My plane wasdelayed 10 minutes. If it would have been on time I would have been on the tarmack waiting to take off when the first tower was hit.
Instead the tower was hit, everyone in the bar said it was a small plane, then we watched as the second plane hit the second tower. They closed Newark and then closed ATL. I stayed for about an hour waiting for them to re-open and then my mother came back and got me. I drove to Ft. Lauderdale thatnight instead.
At the time I didn't realize the size of what happened.