Jill Biden recalled being 'scared to death' that her sister Bonny Jacobs, a United Airlines flight attendant, was on one of the four hijacked airplanes that were flown into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes, 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
On Sunday, Jill Biden, now the first lady, will mark the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by delivering remarks at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania - accompanied by Jacobs. Joe Biden, then a U.S. senator, was on an Amtrak train barreling toward Washington when his wife got through to him. They were on the phone when she cried out, "Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God" after an airplane hit the second World Trade Center tower.
"I started to shake," Jacobs said, adding that she went upstairs to get dressed and "put my clothes on inside out" and spent the rest of the day watching TV. "And it's such as special thing to share it with her as a flight attendant and that she's there, you know, supporting us," Jacobs said.
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