re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

I was a half mile from finishing the Boston Marathon in 2013 when the bombs went off. My wife was at the finish line across the street from where the first bomb went off. She was also a few months pregnant at the time. Once I learned why we were stopped, I was sick to my stomach. It was the longest 4 hours of my life until I finally talked to her.