Secretary of a large yacht club on the south coast, I had a very strained phone call from one of the boatmen in the workshop -"would I come and look at something". Went to the workshop and the TV was on and they were just showing the second Tower being hit. Totally speechless, but now cannot hear Star Spangled Banner without tears in my eyes, and it being played at the Changing of the Guard at Buck House - that was an inspired decision.
I did not believe in "six degrees of separation" until I heard that a fellow member of the RNLI committee on which I served had lost his son in law of 3 months in one of the Towers.