Oh, yes! Keep those blood donations coming!
It was so weird here in that time frame. The next county north of here lost more people on 9/11 than any other jurisdiction except the city of New York. For more than half a year there were multiple obits in the paper as folks waited to mark the many deaths. While i didn't do it you could go not far at all from here and see things smoking up there. A friend who lives up where i grew up (and may yet go back) was watching the event through binoculars from his deck. Yeah, it was insane. If you want some chills listen to Tom Paxton -
http://www.tompaxton.com/audio/the_bravest.mp3
Will have to get a good picture going. Today, however, I'm working and then heading up about an hour and a half to go see Jonathan Edwards. Should be fun.