Hoda and Jenna shared where they were and what their memories were of that fateful day 20 years ago.
Jenna, who was a student at the University of Texas of Austin at the time, recalled her experience of the day as the daughter of President George W. Bush.
“I was in college, and … my dad was president so I had Secret Service,” she told Hoda. “Up until then, we’d kind of made a deal with our parents that the Secret Service would stay back, so we could live and be in college and we wouldn’t see them very often. “I looked out my window that morning, I was getting ready for school, and there were a lot of Secret Service sitting in the courtyard of my apartment building in plastic chairs, I think they just had found out ... And I knew something happened," she added.She said she was taken to a secure location and was not able to immediately communicate with her family. Jenna also described the experience of her sister, Barbara, who was a student at the time at Yale University in Connecticut.
“My sister, who was going to Yale, was with a lot of the Secret Service,” Jenna said. “The Secret Service field office was in one of the towers, so she was with these men and women whose families were trying to get them, and they were mourning together because they were worried about colleagues.”“I was actually working here, and I was going to the dentist,” she said. “I remember because I was in the car, and the radio was on, and they said something had happened.
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