Jill Biden shares memories of Sept. 11 as wife, sister, more

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jill Biden realized that terrorists had attacked America on Sept. 11, her husband, Joe, wasn’t the only loved one she worried about. The first lady recalls in an Associated Press interview how “scared to death” she was that her sister Bonny Jacobs, a United Airlines flight attendant, was on one of the hijacked planes that crashed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. After learning she was safe, Biden went straight to her sister’s home in Pennsylvania. Jacobs tells the AP the first lady was her “rock” that day. Jacobs accompanied the president’s wife to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Sunday to help honor those who died 21 years ago.