My Wife was flying on 9/11/2001

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We all remember that day when hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. I was not flying that day but my wife, Anne, was. We didn't meet until a few years later. It just started out as a routine flight from Portland, Oregon, where she was living before we met, to Connecticut to visit friends there and in New York, but like all flights, was grounded immediately after the hijacked planes started crashing into buildings. Her plane landed in Salt Lake City, Utah. The airline arranged hotel accommodations, but with so many people getting off planes, she was asked to share a room with three beds with two other women. She was there for three days, then when it was clear that flights would not be resumed, she and three other people from Portland rented an SUV and drove non-stop back home. One of the passengers in the SUV was a man who worked for an insurance company that lost hundreds of employees when the one of the towers crashed to the ground in flames. If he had flown one day earlier, he would have been in the building.