The world\u2019s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own \u2013 around the world, and at home<\/p>\n
As clear as that cloudless September<\/a> morning, Jenna Jacobs McPartland<\/a> remembers the moment everything changed. \u201cI was cleaning the bathroom and watching the Today show in the background and nine months pregnant,\u201d the 52-year-old recalls by phone. \u201cI think they were showing \u2018Today throws a wedding\u2019 when the news broke in.\u201d<\/p>\n A plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. McPartland did not know that her husband, Ariel Jacobs, was attending a conference at its Windows on the World restaurant<\/a>. <\/strong>\u201cI called his office to say, \u2018Hey, turn on the TV. Do you guys know what\u2019s going on?\u2019 His assistant said, \u2018Oh my God, Jenna, he\u2019s there.\u2019 The whole world disappeared and there was this sort of hollow collapsing feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world\u2019s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own \u2013 around the world, and at home As clear as that cloudless September morning, Jenna Jacobs McPartland remembers the moment everything changed. \u201cI was cleaning the bathroom and watching the Today show in the background … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}