My mother had not been to Manhattan since before I was born and had to give a presentation 6 blocks away on 9/11. She flew in on the Saturday before and bought a ticket to a Broadway show at the TKTS booth right there. As she was giving her presentation, she could see the emergency vehicles streaming south. On 9/12 she tried to enter a train station but was stopped by a policeman with a M-16 due to a bomb threat. When she finally return home, she put her house on the market because she never wanted to smell a fireplace again. If I mention the smell of the smoke from 9/11 even today, she gets very upset. God bless all the were effected as well as those that perished.