Sue Mladenik had just gotten ready for bed and flipped on her television when a news crawl across the bottom of her screen told her Osama bin Laden was dead. "I was numb, shocked, and confused," the mother of six told me. Mladenik's husband Jeff died aboard American Airlines Flight 11 when hijackers trained by bin Laden flew the plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Mladenik said she quit watching most television after 9/11, but a weekend that included her 13-year-old Grace's spring musical, and recitals for two younger daughters, left her too exhausted for anything else.
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