It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... though doubts linger.
There were some hoaxes and bogus scares too though of course. One of my classmates almost got suspended for having foot powder in his gym bag.. thankfully cooler heads prevailed when school officials realized the kid had athletes foot and thought to doubt how a teenage boy could have plausibly procured weaponized anthrax spores in the first place. But yes, the hysteria was palpable.
Man that time period must have been so much harder for adults than the teenagers at the time
I was in Brighton Conference Centre (Uk) where Tony Blair was due to give a very heavily trailed speech.
After Tower one got hit we all went out of the main auditorium - I then realized I had stupidly left my bag unattended and had to go back and retrieve it.
After tower two got hit a lot of us started to think what if they have a plane targeting Tony and this building - though its a grim thing to say the RAF QRA where armed
People should talk about that more. Every single piece of infrastructure in the whole country was on people’s minds and locked down!
Is there a documentary about that? There is so much possibility for an “isolation thriller” where people’s concerns in their small towns are more the focus than the outcome of what happened by the time the dust settled.