As we spend a lot of this week trying to find some closure in the unspeakable tragedy that was 9/11, tons of memories flood back for all Americans, including memories of what might have been. If you talk to enough people, you hear countless stories from those that were saved by a tiny twist of fate; people who worked in the Towers but were late that one day, or had a meeting, or missed their plane by five short minutes. Yesterday, while promoting a new memoir on The View, actor Rob Lowe revealed his chilling brush with history, explaining that he was on a plane that some of the terrorists used as a dry run.

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“One of the surprising chapters and stories I only tell my friends, is that I flew with the 911 hijackers on the dry run. Without realizing. I was shooting ‘The West Wing’ in DC at the time and I always took I think it was Flight 93 or 73, the flight that leaves Dulles to Los Angeles that eventually they put into the Pentagon. So, It

was 11 days before 9/11, I made the flight a lot and I didn’t think anything of it. I got on the flight and it was packed, small plane. Looked around the cabin, don’t remember anything in particular, nobody looked scary, nobody looked like a terrorist. I do remember that It looked like an absolutely normal flight. Slept most of it and that was it.”

Lowe explained that he knew nothing until a year and a half later when he got a letter from Attorney General of Maryland saying that he may have to come as a witness in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. The reason being that had sat on a plane with the terrorists as they practiced their plan.

As we reflect on the death of Osama bin Laden, this is yet another reminder of just how many lives 9/11 affected.

(h/t HuffPo)

Watch the clip from ABC below:

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