“I think what was particularly salient about 9/11 was that people were affected all over the nation even if they weren’t personally affected. One of my colleagues at the time said that when it happened, all he could do was stare at the Sears Tower. He was expecting any minute that planes were going to crash into it.”

Psychiatric epidemiologist Judith Richman on the long-term mental health affects of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, Sept. 3 Discovery News