from me, an American who slept well last night thank you for your brother's service. I owe it all to him and men like him we all owe them thanks and I appreciate every military man... including your brother ❤❤❤ thank you for sharing your story❤
I agree with you. Sept 11 was a day full of horror, but something beautiful (i'm sorry if that's a poor choice of words) came out of it. We all came together as a nation, so why, during the 22 years since this happened, have the American people turned so violently againt each other. In a way, i feel like the "bad guys" won. They wanted to destroy us, and, look around...they have.
Love your comments at the end. Thank you for reminding us of that day … too many have forgotten. September 11th changed our lives forever. Terrible tragedy for certain but it also woke us up. I was still crying the next day which was my birthday…it’s was a wake up call for millions of us. It is always a time to Love each other.
I have watched a few reactions to this song. You are the only one that has sent your prayers out for those who were affected from that horrific day! God Bless you!!!!!!!!!
If youre old enough, youll never forget this day..i dont remember yesterday, but, i can tell you every second of 911. I was in school, my senior year, my mom called and took me out of school. I came home and watched it on tv and cried all day.
As I watched those poor souls jumping to escape the fire, I promised myself to remember every single one of them every 9/11. I re-watch the recordings every year.
I had just got to work after dropping my daughter off at school. After the 2nd plane hit we all simultaneously realized the magnitude of the events unfolding in real time ...this wasn't the horrible accident we initially thought. My daughter called me to come pick her up. I have never heard a more frightened cry than the one I heard from her that morning. She was 9 and I worked on the 12th floor of the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters and in her child's mind, my building was next. The thousands of heroes that day will never be forgotten!
I was at work and my boss ran out of her office and shouted “we’re under attack”. I sat and listened to the horror unfolding on a small radio I had at my desk. I desperately wanted to go grab my babies who were across town. That night my husband and I sat on the couch holding our 3 small children and listened to the president speak to our nation. My husband was in the Air Force and looked over at me and said, “you know I’m leaving soon, right?” He was gone within a week for the first of countless deployments in the wake of 9/11. Those were hard years for our family, but nothing compared to the families of those poor souls we lost. I will NEVER forget that day as long as I breathe. 💔
I’ll never forget where I was!!! I was getting ready for work. My husband came to the bathroom and told me I need to come to the living room immediately. I sat there for the rest of the day with my husband, in my under garments.
I was in my 5th grade class trailer at Benefield Elementary. I remember our teacher simply saying the buses would be there as soon as possible to take us home and that our family would tell us why. My brother and I got home and our grandparents had it on the tv. Later that day momma got the call that daddy would be driving to NY that night to carry communication supplies and would be gone for 2 weeks. When he got there the buildings were still burning and a couple days later he saw ash everywhere. I've been to the memorial but can't imagine actually being involved. It’s easy to over look the little people who helped that day but even my daddy, a trucker from Georgia, made an impact. Thank you to everyone who had a roll in that day. We will NEVER forget.
I remember that my brother called me late that night (he was a LA CA Fire Chief and head of hazmat) and he asked me to keep him in prayer as he was cleared to join a military flight to NYC To help with the recovery and search. I am proud of his legacy, he’s no longer with us.
We should not be divided! When you walk on the streets every day say hello to strangers because we are all gods children! REMEMBER THAT PLEASE! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I just fed my newborn twins and put them in their swings. When that 2nd plane came charging and hit the second tower I took them out of their swings and held them all day and cried and cried and cried until the next day when my husband put me to bed and laid the twins in bed with me! 😢😢😢😢😢
I was sleeping because I worked the night before. I was in the process of moving and was staying with my 82 year old grandfather (a WWII vet) until everything was ready at the house. I woke up and was puzzled why he was frantic! Then he says "They got caught with their pants down, just like Pearl Harbor"! Then I looked at the TV!
I was at MacDill AFB, could not believe what I saw on TV, thought it was a joke, this could not be real. The proudest moment for me was when every American came together for a cause, just for once, we were all on the same team, no division like now. My military brothers and sisters knew the call was coming, Osama Bin Laden became America's most wanted! It took a few years to locate him, and when we knew where he was, or thought where he would be, President Obama gave our SOCOM CDR (Admiral William McRaven), the green light around 2 May 2011, and our Special Ops Seal Team Six, took care of business! It took a minute, but we got him! You can run, but you can't hide! Never been so proud of my country, as back then. It's too crazy now. Sceez, that's why I enjoy your reactions, you give and have so much energy, all positive vibes, a little distraction from what is going on in this country right now. Thank you for that! 💕💕💕🎼🎼🎼🔥🔥🔥
As a 11 year old Swede I was in Manhattan at the time on vacation and we got told to get inside cause the smoke due to tower collapse. Im a proud Swede but when it comes to that I'd happily sing US songs. No one ever deserves that.
My entire family thinks it was totally appropriate that I was at the library. I taught myself to read when I was three and have been an avid reader ever since. "Where else would you be when something important happens" they ask while rolling their eyes...
I was in elementary school. I live on the West Coast, so I was getting ready to walk to school, and I remember my parents were watching the coverage on the news.
I'll never forget getting up that morning and having my coffee turning the news on the first plane had just hit nobody knew what was going on then here came the second plane I will never if I live to be 100 forget that horror God Bless all of us Americans!!
I was at work building a powerline. I just happened to turn on the radio and heard what was going on. We drove a couple miles down to the country store and stood in front of the TV in shock. No work got done that day. It was like everyone was moving in slow motion. We just couldn't shake the thing off.
I was in 8th grade and remember being in social studies and our teacher put the tv on and said the US was under attack. We watched the second place strike. Something I will never forget. But I do remember the amount of love that came out of it. We need that back (minus the tragedy) but we as a people were family
I was a Mom watching the Wiggles with my youngest 18 months .. My husband called me and said put on the news and go get our other children... we lived in the NSA area.. he was on the other side of NSA and couldn't get home... I went to the HS and picked up our oldest,,, then went to the middle school and picked up 2 more and and then went the elementary school and picked up our 2nd grader... Worst day of my life but also blessed that I got my kids home..about 18 hrs later my husband was finally able to get home
I was teaching at a private school. My job was to teach foreign students to speak English, total beginners, mostly miming. A Korean and a Brazilian kid came rushing in, absolutely frantic. I could make out NY and Twin Towers, so I drew them on the board. Airplane noises, and showing the point of impact. Then they mimed the building falling. I erased a bit. More. And more, until it was down to street level (the other bldg was still standing). Unbelievable. We went to another classroom and watched the rest unfold. I’ll never forget that feeling of shock, sadness and fear for those in the buildings.
I was a kid, 5 years old and I don't believe that my family saw the new of 9/11. But when I was in middle school, we started to talk about 9/11 and I didn't care and ignore them, but in high school I finally understand 9/11 and now I show my respect for them
I was on my way to work when the first plane hit was announced on the radio. Then the second one hit. When I got to work I called my babysitter, she had already got all the kids from school. All I wanted to do was go home and hold my daughter and know she was with me. I was mission critical, so I didn’t get to leave. I remember using a pay phone over and over trying to reach my friends in NYC and DC, the lines were always busy. My whole insides felt hollow for a long time.
I was watching a live morning talk show that is based in New York, they saw it happen out of their window, so I saw it happen too, the topic and the scheduled guest took second stage and they talked about what they were seeing and they were crying and hugging each other. I thought to myself, we're going to war!
I can't even to this day say how powerful this song was and still is... Alan just had everything in this song that I was feeling at the time.... and truly to this day... what an amazing song writer and voice to all of America at that time
I was away at college and remember seeing the planes hit the towers. I had friends who worked in those towers, family first responders, family in NYC. I remember how many of my friends in school who immediately enlisted in the military after 9/11 and I remember the heroes who gave their lives trying to save people. I remember watching Americans jump out of windows.
I was at work in the pharmacy listening to the radio in disbelief. My daughter was in highschool and they were being evacuated because the school is next to a Federal Center which could've been on an attack list. I was a nervous wreck until my daughter got home and called me.
Im in the UK 🇬🇧 And it started coming through on the news stations here.. people here felt so much anger and continued to look at EVERYTHING that was coming through on the news & MSM to us across the pond but we were outraged for our American cousins..im from a military family..lots of us served BUT this was personal.☮️💓🇬🇧
I had sent my kids off to school and lied down on the couch trying to sneak in a few more zzz’s when a friend called & told me to turn on the tv. Watched and cried all day. I can’t remember if the kids were released early, but that’s how they found me when they got home. 😢 When I was in 3rd grade, we were living just outside of Chicago … one day we were all called to the gym for an assembly as they announced the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. I was a little white girl in a predominantly black school, and I remember the heavy sadness all around me. All the grown-ups were crying, and that was very new to me. My heart broke as I learned more about this man that day. 💔😞
I was an ER nurse, just finished an overtime night shift and was sitting down to breakfast before I laid down. Watched the second plane hit on live tv. My hospital was in a city with a large power plant. We got called back in to work about 2 hours after the towers fell because they thought the power plants might be targets. We were ordered to stay at work for the next 48 hours, sleeping at the hospital. Watched everything unfold on tv. I have never forgotten a scene from a NY hospital. After the towers fell, the nurses and doctors were standing in an ambulance bay, waiting for them to bring trauma patients to the ER. All this dust and smoke everywhere and no patients. There was a news crew there, and a nurse said quietly, “No one is coming. They are all dead.” I will never forget the tears running down her cheeks. And my nurse colleagues and I cried with her. It was an unbelievable time. I still can’t lose those images.
I went to school in NYC when this happened… I was working at a day center for the mentally Ill and we were so close that they kept giving us evacuate orders. It was surreal in the days that followed. I was a newlywed and used to tell my husband look at what I had on so if he had to identify me he could and he’d know what happened to me. I always knew when there were new threats because I would get off the train and see a ton of cops and military men and women. People wore gas masks and at school seeing the empty seats was so hard. My daughter was part of the 9/11 baby boom. We all went home and were grateful to be there with those we loved so much. I was there and seeing the people coming together was so heartwarming. Why does its take a crisis for us to love eachother and extend a helping hand. Great reaction and thank you for taking the time to care about that day despite the fact that you were young when it happened 😢
I am a nurse and ironically a bunch of us were in an auditorium at the hospital to review our roles IF there was ever a chemical warfare attack!! When it was announced EVERYTHING STOPPED, class was canceled and I don't think we ever finished that class afterwards. I worked in the ER and although I was in Florida we were ALL required to report to duty because President Bush was in Florida at the time...and no one knew what to expect!! It was a horrible CRAZY time for everyone!!😢
We were united for a while after this happened. We will always come together as a people when we are attacked that much I know for sure. Beautiful song!
12 days prior I had given birth to my youngest child, I was sitting on the couch with the TV on mute holding her and resting, I opened my eyes and there it was, at first I thought it was a moves trailer and then it hit me, My two other children were in school and my husband was at work, he came home, Picked up the kids from school on the way... Will never forget that day
I was 20 and asleep after working overnight when my bff (since age 2) called me. Told she loved me and to turn on my tv, the world was ending. I asked what channel, she said every channel. I saw the second plane hit live. The people jumping out of the higher floors to escape the inferno are the images that haunt me most. 😢😭
I had just left my husband of 12 yrs and just days before got a brand new apt for my three children and I. My two oldest were in school and my little girl was only 3.5yrs old. I didnt even have cable tv hooked up yet. But i shoved a wire hanger in the back of the tv and wrapped a bunch of aluminum foil on it so I could pick up local TV. I raced to pick up my sons from school and already knew that besides the silence outdoors with all planes grounded, that we were at war with whoever it would be and that the world was forever changed.
I was 18/19? I worked as a "door guy" at a night club. I got home at 4ish am. I went to sleep and for no reason I can recall, I sat up and turned on the tv. I saw the second plane hit. It didn't seem real. I ran to my sister (whom I lived with at the time) and I remember yelling to her and her husband that we were under attack. We just sat in front of the TV crying. It was such a helpless moment. We were no longer kids having a good time. We were grown ups watching our country be attacked. It was fucking surreal.....I sit on a unique side now, but THEN....we were all just sort of existing. I remember going outside and my neighbors and I were in shock. We just looked at each other. It was fucking blank. Never experienced anything else like it. weird to think about now.....
I was 9 ten days away from 10. We were on a field trip. It was like an early version of zoom with those big 32" tube TV. They stopped the video, sent us back to our school and they sent us home by lunch.
I live on the other side of the US from New York (so a three hour time difference) so by the time I learned about what had happened at 8 am my time, the towers had already fallen and everyone was in the aftermath so to speak. I remember walking into my accounting class and a friend telling me about what happened and the teacher saying "We need to go back to work, it's what they would have wanted." and I thought 'We're not even going to have a moment of silence? What's wrong with you people?' I always felt guilty that while everyone else across the country stopped what they were doing, we carried on as if nothing had happened. (I was in Job Corps at the time so I didn't have a choice whether to attend class or not)
I will never forget that day. I got off from work a little later than usual and was driving home when the first plane hit the North Tower. By the time I got home the second plane had hit the South Tower and I spent the entire day crying in front of the TV.
I was working fir State of Alabama when my boyfriend, now my husband, called and told me about the towers being hit. He said " 2 towers are no accident". I told our director and we gathered the workers and our waiting clients and squeezed ourselves into tiny TV room to watch. Since we were State government, our director didn't allow us to go get our kids at school as she didn't know if our building was safe, yet we couldn't leave work. We were nervous wrecks on so many levels, for our families, our friends, our clients, our country, our everything. 😢
I was 6 months pregnant with my youngest son… I also had a daughter in kindergarten, in afternoon classes.. I woke up and saw the TV and thought”huh… I’ve never seen this movie”…. I fell back to sleep and an hour later woke up to get my daughter ready for school… I walked by the TV and thought “I just saw this part of the movie! Is this movie on rerun all day???”……… then I heard the pentagon was hit…. I froze in my tracks… woke up my husband and sat there in complete disbelief and shock! .. we kept our daughter out of school the rest of the week and was glued to the TV… we saw dozens of blood bank buses lining the streets and other than them- the streets were empty…. My husbands cousin works for the FBI and was one of the ones who were sent to Washington to attend to the pentagon… she said the smell was so overwhelming and will always be engraved in her head forever… When the Oklahoma City bombing happened a few years before - I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter - the one who had afternoon classes during 9/11….
I was at work in an office where I was the secretary. One of our sales people got a call from one of her customers who informed her of the first plane hitting. She got off the phone and announced it to everybody, we all ran to the break room and spent the rest of the day glued to the TV. We worked at a company that supplied pipes and fittings for major refineries. All of the delivery drivers were recalled immediately when the second plane hit. Our phone lines were usually fairly busy all day, that day they were silent
I think about that every day, how we can come together after the tragedy, but look around now 22 yrs later we're more divided than ever, waging war within the country instead of staying united after that tragedy brought us together. It doesn't matter what I was doing that day in September, I think about what those went through in the trade centers and the pentagon, the helpless people in the hijacked plans.I sometimes doubt remember the date today but I will never forget 9/11. I don't ever think about what I was doing when the world stop turning any longer, I remember what everyone who died in the tragedy was going through. Let's start the 9/12 movement and unite and stay united and honor those who give us freedom.
Yes, we mourn the lost, honor the heroes, are grateful for the unity that 9/11/01 brought...but we must remember that there's another 9/11...9/11/2012 when our consulate and annex were attacked in Benghazi, Libia, where brave Americans died needlessly.
I was only ten and had never heard of the World Trade Center, I don't remember a whole lot but I do remember going home early and my grandma was sitting in front of the tv crying. It was the first time I ever saw her cry and then I saw the rest of my family start crying. That's when it hit me that something truly horrible happened and even the news anchors were near tears. Years after I finally learned and understood it, since then I cry just thinking about it all.
I was a 21 year old mom with a two year old at home. I woke up to something that I thought was a sick prank by MTV and changed to my local ABC channel just in time for the second plane to hit. I remember that I watched, and cried, in my living room just a 3 hours' drive from the Pentagon. Eventually I took my daughter to the traveling carnival that was in town just to escape the reality of what I had witnessed.
We was getting ready to go into the grocery store as soon as we heard we dropped everything ran home and went to pick up our daughter she was in kindergarten and we just stayed home and held onto each other as we watched the news
I was at a factory in north Texas. When we first heard the word of the first plane impact, we thought it was a Cessna or something. Then the videos started coming in on AOL (the internet was a baby then, just AOL and Yahoo) and then we watched a video of the second plane coming in. Peace, Love!!
I am 48yrs old watching this reaction. My brother was a fireman when this tradgedy happenend. I remember like it was yesterday! We live close to Shanksville where the passengers fought back. We go to the memorial in Shanksville multiple times a year. I cry every single time 20 plus years later. I'll never forget!!!
I was 11 and in class when the intercom called my name for early pick-up. I was confused, especially when it was my mom's bff picking me and her daughter up. My mom was at work and wanted me out asap. When she picked me up and we were home, she turned on the news. I watched people jumping from the buildings and I cried historically. They tell us "never forget" like it's in any way possible for us to forget the trauma of that day.
3rd grade in music class sitting in the auditorium watching it on a small roll out tv that made me join along with the influence of older friends go army climb to glory
I was sleeping still. My brother woke me up and told me the first one was hit by a plane. We were watching as the the other planes hit the 2nd and the pentagon, and the one that went done. You just felt so useless cause as us in California there was nothing we could do. We felt powerless.😢
Thank you I was in my 20s when this happened I'm 47 now it's different my aunts in their 70s remember where they where when jfk was shot now my grandbabies will ask if I remember where I was and I do every minute of it I was a newlywed and the cell phones where so overloaded it took me 45 minutes to reach him
Great Reaction..... Alan Jackson's "Where You When the World Stopped Turning" Asks how you Felt in the Moment...... Daryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten" reminds you of how you felt in that moment.......
I was on a school field trip with my 5 year old daughter. All of us parents were so upset and worried. We had to hide it all from the children. Horrible day
I was lying on the couch, a teenager, pregnant with my first child, throwing up with morning sickness. Scared to bring a child into this world…. Questioning whether or not I was doing the right thing by carrying that baby…. That’s where I was. She’s 21 now…
Wow, your comment about how it's 93 degrees but you feel ice cold listening to this is an awesome statement. I get chills like I'm hearing it for the first time. As to where I was I was in a Dr office where I worked in St. Louis (actually across the river in our IL office at the time). My Dr I worked for was from NYC and I had to keep going in and giving him updates what felt like every 30 minutes. The first time to tell him about the first plane...and he looked weird at first but was like, Huh. Ok. Kind of hard to miss the tower but at first he was laboring under the misconception it could be weather related. Then the 2nd plane hit and I had to tell him that. He went ash grey in the face and goes "So we are at war now" at the exact moment the patient we were seeing (a WWII vet ironically) said the same thing. Obviously it only got progressively worse as I had to tell him as each tower fell, etc. It wasn't till I got in my car to head back to St. Louis that I was driving past Cahokia etc and from the freeway I could see all the flags at half-staff that I finally broke down and cried. I never thought I would witness a Pearl Harbor type event in my lifetime. Always thought it was something for the history books and we would never see something like that in our country again. It was so shocking.
I remember that day it was silent and quiet. Not a word was spoken at the school I went to. I was scared I’ll admit I knew something was wrong,but not sure as to what. Didn’t find out until after I got home that day. Great reaction by the way. Another patriotic song from then is Aaron Tippin where the Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly.
I remember my dad was out of town working . I told my mom it must not be that bad cause Dad had not called. But seconds later the phone rang. His hotel was across the street from Fort Knox. He said he watched the pilots running to there jets and alarms going off. Then we was all scared.
Alan Jackson says that God woke him up in the middle of the night with this song. Sat down and wrote it.❤
I believe it! 😭💔🙏🕯️ I love God! God Bless you and your family! God Bless Alan Jackson! God Bless America!
Do yall remember how much everyone held on to one another, even strangers, at that time? We need that back (without the tragedy if course).
Sadly I'm afraid that's what it'll take for us at this point 😢😢
All I can say is AMEN!
Totally agree however I feel that’s what it’s going to take unfortunately. We can be united if people would love not hate so much.
Agreed
I love people, and I am absolutely in love with our country. ❤
from me, an American who slept well last night thank you for your brother's service. I owe it all to him and men like him we all owe them thanks and I appreciate every military man... including your brother ❤❤❤ thank you for sharing your story❤
I agree with you. Sept 11 was a day full of horror, but something beautiful (i'm sorry if that's a poor choice of words) came out of it. We all came together as a nation, so why, during the 22 years since this happened, have the American people turned so violently againt each other. In a way, i feel like the "bad guys" won. They wanted to destroy us, and, look around...they have.
Love your comments at the end.
Thank you for reminding us of that day … too many have forgotten. September 11th changed our lives forever. Terrible tragedy for certain but it also woke us up. I was still crying the next day which was my birthday…it’s was a wake up call for millions of us.
It is always a time to Love each other.
I have watched a few reactions to this song. You are the only one that has sent your prayers out for those who were affected from that horrific day! God Bless you!!!!!!!!!
If youre old enough, youll never forget this day..i dont remember yesterday, but, i can tell you every second of 911. I was in school, my senior year, my mom called and took me out of school. I came home and watched it on tv and cried all day.
I was at work...listening to my regular radio show...i was numb.
This song still makes me cry,i remember that day clear as can be.
We really need to keep our selves together and not allow others to separate us ever again seriously !! Because the greatest is Love!!!
Another good song…..
Daryl Worley “Have You Forgotten “
This song kicks ass
Man this day will always be with me! ❤🇨🇦🇺🇸
My personal favorite song commemorating 9/11.
As I watched those poor souls jumping to escape the fire, I promised myself to remember every single one of them every 9/11. I re-watch the recordings every year.
After 911 ever one was angry but this song the main theme was pease hope and love and tbe greatest is love thats right from the bible
I had just got to work after dropping my daughter off at school. After the 2nd plane hit we all simultaneously realized the magnitude of the events unfolding in real time ...this wasn't the horrible accident we initially thought. My daughter called me to come pick her up. I have never heard a more frightened cry than the one I heard from her that morning. She was 9 and I worked on the 12th floor of the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters and in her child's mind, my building was next. The thousands of heroes that day will never be forgotten!
I was at work and my boss ran out of her office and shouted “we’re under attack”. I sat and listened to the horror unfolding on a small radio I had at my desk. I desperately wanted to go grab my babies who were across town. That night my husband and I sat on the couch holding our 3 small children and listened to the president speak to our nation. My husband was in the Air Force and looked over at me and said, “you know I’m leaving soon, right?” He was gone within a week for the first of countless deployments in the wake of 9/11. Those were hard years for our family, but nothing compared to the families of those poor souls we lost. I will NEVER forget that day as long as I breathe. 💔
I’ll never forget where I was!!!
I was getting ready for work. My husband came to the bathroom and told me I need to come to the living room immediately. I sat there for the rest of the day with my husband, in my under garments.
I was in my 5th grade class trailer at Benefield Elementary.
I remember our teacher simply saying the buses would be there as soon as possible to take us home and that our family would tell us why. My brother and I got home and our grandparents had it on the tv. Later that day momma got the call that daddy would be driving to NY that night to carry communication supplies and would be gone for 2 weeks. When he got there the buildings were still burning and a couple days later he saw ash everywhere. I've been to the memorial but can't imagine actually being involved. It’s easy to over look the little people who helped that day but even my daddy, a trucker from Georgia, made an impact. Thank you to everyone who had a roll in that day. We will NEVER forget.
I will always remember this day. The World really stopped that day 😯😯😯
I remember that my brother called me late that night (he was a LA CA Fire Chief and head of hazmat) and he asked me to keep him in prayer as he was cleared to join a military flight to NYC To help with the recovery and search. I am proud of his legacy, he’s no longer with us.
U hit the nail on the head. Thank u brother. Months ago I buried a military great. Staff sg Lillis. A true warrior. Rip
I was in an ambulance garage in pa waiting for the call to come. It is one of those days you will never forget
This song will live on forever❤
We should not be divided! When you walk on the streets every day say hello to strangers because we are all gods children! REMEMBER THAT PLEASE! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I just fed my newborn twins and put them in their swings. When that 2nd plane came charging and hit the second tower I took them out of their swings and held them all day and cried and cried and cried until the next day when my husband put me to bed and laid the twins in bed with me! 😢😢😢😢😢
I was sleeping because I worked the night before. I was in the process of moving and was staying with my 82 year old grandfather (a WWII vet) until everything was ready at the house. I woke up and was puzzled why he was frantic! Then he says "They got caught with their pants down, just like Pearl Harbor"! Then I looked at the TV!
I was at MacDill AFB, could not believe what I saw on TV, thought it was a joke, this could not be real. The proudest moment for me was when every American came together for a cause, just for once, we were all on the same team, no division like now. My military brothers and sisters knew the call was coming, Osama Bin Laden became America's most wanted! It took a few years to locate him, and when we knew where he was, or thought where he would be, President Obama gave our SOCOM CDR (Admiral William McRaven), the green light around 2 May 2011, and our Special Ops Seal Team Six, took care of business! It took a minute, but we got him! You can run, but you can't hide! Never been so proud of my country, as back then. It's too crazy now. Sceez, that's why I enjoy your reactions, you give and have so much energy, all positive vibes, a little distraction from what is going on in this country right now. Thank you for that! 💕💕💕🎼🎼🎼🔥🔥🔥
As a 11 year old Swede I was in Manhattan at the time on vacation and we got told to get inside cause the smoke due to tower collapse. Im a proud Swede but when it comes to that I'd happily sing US songs. No one ever deserves that.
I was at home drinking coffee with The Today show on. I was in 20s and Lived alone. I was so scared as we all were.. Never Forget ❤
My entire family thinks it was totally appropriate that I was at the library. I taught myself to read when I was three and have been an avid reader ever since. "Where else would you be when something important happens" they ask while rolling their eyes...
I was in elementary school. I live on the West Coast, so I was getting ready to walk to school, and I remember my parents were watching the coverage on the news.
I'll never forget getting up that morning and having my coffee turning the news on the first plane had just hit nobody knew what was going on then here came the second plane I will never if I live to be 100 forget that horror God Bless all of us Americans!!
I was at work building a powerline. I just happened to turn on the radio and heard what was going on. We drove a couple miles down to the country store and stood in front of the TV in shock. No work got done that day. It was like everyone was moving in slow motion. We just couldn't shake the thing off.
The great music
I was at work. We turned on the tv and sat down in shock. I left and got both of my children out of school.
I was in 8th grade and remember being in social studies and our teacher put the tv on and said the US was under attack. We watched the second place strike. Something I will never forget. But I do remember the amount of love that came out of it. We need that back (minus the tragedy) but we as a people were family
This song makes me cry like a baby every time I hear it but I have to listen to it and ❤️everyone
I was a Mom watching the Wiggles with my youngest 18 months .. My husband called me and said put on the news and go get our other children... we lived in the NSA area.. he was on the other side of NSA and couldn't get home... I went to the HS and picked up our oldest,,, then went to the middle school and picked up 2 more and and then went the elementary school and picked up our 2nd grader... Worst day of my life but also blessed that I got my kids home..about 18 hrs later my husband was finally able to get home
Alan Jackson is the man for even thinking of the words for this song such an emotional moment....I believe I was in 7th grade math class
I was teaching at a private school. My job was to teach foreign students to speak English, total beginners, mostly miming. A Korean and a Brazilian kid came rushing in, absolutely frantic. I could make out NY and Twin Towers, so I drew them on the board. Airplane noises, and showing the point of impact. Then they mimed the building falling. I erased a bit. More. And more, until it was down to street level (the other bldg was still standing). Unbelievable. We went to another classroom and watched the rest unfold. I’ll never forget that feeling of shock, sadness and fear for those in the buildings.
I was a kid, 5 years old and I don't believe that my family saw the new of 9/11. But when I was in middle school, we started to talk about 9/11 and I didn't care and ignore them, but in high school I finally understand 9/11 and now I show my respect for them
I was on my way to work when the first plane hit was announced on the radio. Then the second one hit. When I got to work I called my babysitter, she had already got all the kids from school. All I wanted to do was go home and hold my daughter and know she was with me. I was mission critical, so I didn’t get to leave. I remember using a pay phone over and over trying to reach my friends in NYC and DC, the lines were always busy. My whole insides felt hollow for a long time.
I was watching a live morning talk show that is based in New York, they saw it happen out of their window, so I saw it happen too, the topic and the scheduled guest took second stage and they talked about what they were seeing and they were crying and hugging each other. I thought to myself, we're going to war!
I can't even to this day say how powerful this song was and still is... Alan just had everything in this song that I was feeling at the time.... and truly to this day... what an amazing song writer and voice to all of America at that time
I was away at college and remember seeing the planes hit the towers. I had friends who worked in those towers, family first responders, family in NYC. I remember how many of my friends in school who immediately enlisted in the military after 9/11 and I remember the heroes who gave their lives trying to save people. I remember watching Americans jump out of windows.
That song is straight from the lord, lost my little brother in tower one, today the seals will always watch over you
I was at work in the pharmacy listening to the radio in disbelief. My daughter was in highschool and they were being evacuated because the school is next to a Federal Center which could've been on an attack list. I was a nervous wreck until my daughter got home and called me.
Im in the UK 🇬🇧 And it started coming through on the news stations here.. people here felt so much anger and continued to look at EVERYTHING that was coming through on the news & MSM to us across the pond but we were outraged for our American cousins..im from a military family..lots of us served BUT this was personal.☮️💓🇬🇧
I had sent my kids off to school and lied down on the couch trying to sneak in a few more zzz’s when a friend called & told me to turn on the tv. Watched and cried all day. I can’t remember if the kids were released early, but that’s how they found me when they got home. 😢
When I was in 3rd grade, we were living just outside of Chicago … one day we were all called to the gym for an assembly as they announced the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. I was a little white girl in a predominantly black school, and I remember the heavy sadness all around me. All the grown-ups were crying, and that was very new to me. My heart broke as I learned more about this man that day. 💔😞
Please thank you brother for me for serving ❤
The backup singers that perform for these special awards shows are the best there are. And you can clearly hear the emotion in their voices as well.
I was an ER nurse, just finished an overtime night shift and was sitting down to breakfast before I laid down. Watched the second plane hit on live tv. My hospital was in a city with a large power plant. We got called back in to work about 2 hours after the towers fell because they thought the power plants might be targets. We were ordered to stay at work for the next 48 hours, sleeping at the hospital. Watched everything unfold on tv. I have never forgotten a scene from a NY hospital. After the towers fell, the nurses and doctors were standing in an ambulance bay, waiting for them to bring trauma patients to the ER. All this dust and smoke everywhere and no patients. There was a news crew there, and a nurse said quietly, “No one is coming. They are all dead.” I will never forget the tears running down her cheeks. And my nurse colleagues and I cried with her. It was an unbelievable time. I still can’t lose those images.
I went to school in NYC when this happened… I was working at a day center for the mentally Ill and we were so close that they kept giving us evacuate orders. It was surreal in the days that followed. I was a newlywed and used to tell my husband look at what I had on so if he had to identify me he could and he’d know what happened to me. I always knew when there were new threats because I would get off the train and see a ton of cops and military men and women. People wore gas masks and at school seeing the empty seats was so hard. My daughter was part of the 9/11 baby boom. We all went home and were grateful to be there with those we loved so much. I was there and seeing the people coming together was so heartwarming. Why does its take a crisis for us to love eachother and extend a helping hand. Great reaction and thank you for taking the time to care about that day despite the fact that you were young when it happened 😢
Beautiful beautiful song 🎶 We will never forget 🇺🇸
I am a nurse and ironically a bunch of us were in an auditorium at the hospital to review our roles IF there was ever a chemical warfare attack!! When it was announced EVERYTHING STOPPED, class was canceled and I don't think we ever finished that class afterwards. I worked in the ER and although I was in Florida we were ALL required to report to duty because President Bush was in Florida at the time...and no one knew what to expect!! It was a horrible CRAZY time for everyone!!😢
I agree with you 100% !!
We were united for a while after this happened. We will always come together as a people when we are attacked that much I know for sure. Beautiful song!
Great Song! Thank you! I agree totally with what you said!
I was on a ladder painting a house and the woman that lived there came out and got us to come inside to see it.
12 days prior I had given birth to my youngest child, I was sitting on the couch with the TV on mute holding her and resting, I opened my eyes and there it was, at first I thought it was a moves trailer and then it hit me, My two other children were in school and my husband was at work, he came home, Picked up the kids from school on the way... Will never forget that day
I was 20 and asleep after working overnight when my bff (since age 2) called me. Told she loved me and to turn on my tv, the world was ending. I asked what channel, she said every channel. I saw the second plane hit live. The people jumping out of the higher floors to escape the inferno are the images that haunt me most. 😢😭
If you haven’t listened to Darryl Worley’s song have you forgotton. It’s a must to listen too .
I was at home, asleep, and my brother called me and said, turn on your TV, and we cried together 😭💔
Survivors guilt was 💯% true for most of us! ❤to those who went through it
I had just left my husband of 12 yrs and just days before got a brand new apt for my three children and I. My two oldest were in school and my little girl was only 3.5yrs old. I didnt even have cable tv hooked up yet. But i shoved a wire hanger in the back of the tv and wrapped a bunch of aluminum foil on it so I could pick up local TV. I raced to pick up my sons from school and already knew that besides the silence outdoors with all planes grounded, that we were at war with whoever it would be and that the world was forever changed.
I was 18/19? I worked as a "door guy" at a night club. I got home at 4ish am. I went to sleep and for no reason I can recall, I sat up and turned on the tv. I saw the second plane hit. It didn't seem real. I ran to my sister (whom I lived with at the time) and I remember yelling to her and her husband that we were under attack. We just sat in front of the TV crying. It was such a helpless moment. We were no longer kids having a good time. We were grown ups watching our country be attacked. It was fucking surreal.....I sit on a unique side now, but THEN....we were all just sort of existing. I remember going outside and my neighbors and I were in shock. We just looked at each other. It was fucking blank. Never experienced anything else like it. weird to think about now.....
I was 9 ten days away from 10. We were on a field trip. It was like an early version of zoom with those big 32" tube TV. They stopped the video, sent us back to our school and they sent us home by lunch.
I live on the other side of the US from New York (so a three hour time difference) so by the time I learned about what had happened at 8 am my time, the towers had already fallen and everyone was in the aftermath so to speak. I remember walking into my accounting class and a friend telling me about what happened and the teacher saying "We need to go back to work, it's what they would have wanted." and I thought 'We're not even going to have a moment of silence? What's wrong with you people?' I always felt guilty that while everyone else across the country stopped what they were doing, we carried on as if nothing had happened. (I was in Job Corps at the time so I didn't have a choice whether to attend class or not)
I will never forget that day. I got off from work a little later than usual and was driving home when the first plane hit the North Tower. By the time I got home the second plane had hit the South Tower and I spent the entire day crying in front of the TV.
I was working fir State of Alabama when my boyfriend, now my husband, called and told me about the towers being hit. He said " 2 towers are no accident". I told our director and we gathered the workers and our waiting clients and squeezed ourselves into tiny TV room to watch. Since we were State government, our director didn't allow us to go get our kids at school as she didn't know if our building was safe, yet we couldn't leave work. We were nervous wrecks on so many levels, for our families, our friends, our clients, our country, our everything. 😢
I was 17 years old and my mom woke me up right after the first plane hit..I was in shock and very angry
I was 6 months pregnant with my youngest son… I also had a daughter in kindergarten, in afternoon classes.. I woke up and saw the TV and thought”huh… I’ve never seen this movie”…. I fell back to sleep and an hour later woke up to get my daughter ready for school… I walked by the TV and thought “I just saw this part of the movie! Is this movie on rerun all day???”……… then I heard the pentagon was hit…. I froze in my tracks… woke up my husband and sat there in complete disbelief and shock! .. we kept our daughter out of school the rest of the week and was glued to the TV… we saw dozens of blood bank buses lining the streets and other than them- the streets were empty…. My husbands cousin works for the FBI and was one of the ones who were sent to Washington to attend to the pentagon… she said the smell was so overwhelming and will always be engraved in her head forever…
When the Oklahoma City bombing happened a few years before - I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter - the one who had afternoon classes during 9/11….
I was at work in an office where I was the secretary. One of our sales people got a call from one of her customers who informed her of the first plane hitting. She got off the phone and announced it to everybody, we all ran to the break room and spent the rest of the day glued to the TV. We worked at a company that supplied pipes and fittings for major refineries. All of the delivery drivers were recalled immediately when the second plane hit. Our phone lines were usually fairly busy all day, that day they were silent
I think about that every day, how we can come together after the tragedy, but look around now 22 yrs later we're more divided than ever, waging war within the country instead of staying united after that tragedy brought us together. It doesn't matter what I was doing that day in September, I think about what those went through in the trade centers and the pentagon, the helpless people in the hijacked plans.I sometimes doubt remember the date today but I will never forget 9/11. I don't ever think about what I was doing when the world stop turning any longer, I remember what everyone who died in the tragedy was going through. Let's start the 9/12 movement and unite and stay united and honor those who give us freedom.
Yes, we mourn the lost, honor the heroes, are grateful for the unity that 9/11/01 brought...but we must remember that there's another 9/11...9/11/2012 when our consulate and annex were attacked in Benghazi, Libia, where brave Americans died needlessly.
You have a good heart. Your words spoke volumes
I was only ten and had never heard of the World Trade Center, I don't remember a whole lot but I do remember going home early and my grandma was sitting in front of the tv crying. It was the first time I ever saw her cry and then I saw the rest of my family start crying. That's when it hit me that something truly horrible happened and even the news anchors were near tears. Years after I finally learned and understood it, since then I cry just thinking about it all.
I was a 21 year old mom with a two year old at home. I woke up to something that I thought was a sick prank by MTV and changed to my local ABC channel just in time for the second plane to hit. I remember that I watched, and cried, in my living room just a 3 hours' drive from the Pentagon. Eventually I took my daughter to the traveling carnival that was in town just to escape the reality of what I had witnessed.
We was getting ready to go into the grocery store as soon as we heard we dropped everything ran home and went to pick up our daughter she was in kindergarten and we just stayed home and held onto each other as we watched the news
USA badge of honor brother I am with you I was 10 when it happened And my teacher's son and grandson died in it She had a Mental breakdown and retired
I.was there as a firefighter and not long after, deployed to Afghanistan.
Thank you for your service.
@@aerynoftalyn1307 it was an honor and privilege
I was at a factory in north Texas. When we first heard the word of the first plane impact, we thought it was a Cessna or something. Then the videos started coming in on AOL (the internet was a baby then, just AOL and Yahoo) and then we watched a video of the second plane coming in. Peace, Love!!
Love you Sceez. Prayers to all human race. Bhip
I am 48yrs old watching this reaction. My brother was a fireman when this tradgedy happenend. I remember like it was yesterday! We live close to Shanksville where the passengers fought back. We go to the memorial in Shanksville multiple times a year. I cry every single time 20 plus years later. I'll never forget!!!
Beautiful reaction❤❤❤ Love you Sceeeeeez❤❤❤
I was 11 and in class when the intercom called my name for early pick-up. I was confused, especially when it was my mom's bff picking me and her daughter up. My mom was at work and wanted me out asap. When she picked me up and we were home, she turned on the news. I watched people jumping from the buildings and I cried historically. They tell us "never forget" like it's in any way possible for us to forget the trauma of that day.
I was a teachers aide in a BD classroom, we watched it on TV also.
3rd grade in music class sitting in the auditorium watching it on a small roll out tv that made me join along with the influence of older friends go army climb to glory
I was sleeping still. My brother woke me up and told me the first one was hit by a plane. We were watching as the the other planes hit the 2nd and the pentagon, and the one that went done. You just felt so useless cause as us in California there was nothing we could do. We felt powerless.😢
Thank you I was in my 20s when this happened I'm 47 now it's different my aunts in their 70s remember where they where when jfk was shot now my grandbabies will ask if I remember where I was and I do every minute of it I was a newlywed and the cell phones where so overloaded it took me 45 minutes to reach him
Great Reaction.....
Alan Jackson's "Where You When the World Stopped Turning" Asks how you Felt in the Moment......
Daryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten" reminds you of how you felt in that moment.......
I was on a school field trip with my 5 year old daughter. All of us parents were so upset and worried. We had to hide it all from the children. Horrible day
They want us divided but tell you what! We are not near as divided as MSM and social media would like us to be! All of us uniting terrifies them!
I’m with you I don’t understand our divide. We should be Americans first. Politics 2nd.
I was lying on the couch, a teenager, pregnant with my first child, throwing up with morning sickness. Scared to bring a child into this world…. Questioning whether or not I was doing the right thing by carrying that baby…. That’s where I was.
She’s 21 now…
Wow, your comment about how it's 93 degrees but you feel ice cold listening to this is an awesome statement. I get chills like I'm hearing it for the first time. As to where I was I was in a Dr office where I worked in St. Louis (actually across the river in our IL office at the time). My Dr I worked for was from NYC and I had to keep going in and giving him updates what felt like every 30 minutes. The first time to tell him about the first plane...and he looked weird at first but was like, Huh. Ok. Kind of hard to miss the tower but at first he was laboring under the misconception it could be weather related.
Then the 2nd plane hit and I had to tell him that. He went ash grey in the face and goes "So we are at war now" at the exact moment the patient we were seeing (a WWII vet ironically) said the same thing. Obviously it only got progressively worse as I had to tell him as each tower fell, etc. It wasn't till I got in my car to head back to St. Louis that I was driving past Cahokia etc and from the freeway I could see all the flags at half-staff that I finally broke down and cried. I never thought I would witness a Pearl Harbor type event in my lifetime. Always thought it was something for the history books and we would never see something like that in our country again. It was so shocking.
I remember that day it was silent and quiet. Not a word was spoken at the school I went to. I was scared I’ll admit I knew something was wrong,but not sure as to what. Didn’t find out until after I got home that day. Great reaction by the way.
Another patriotic song from then is Aaron Tippin where the Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly.
I remember my dad was out of town working . I told my mom it must not be that bad cause Dad had not called. But seconds later the phone rang. His hotel was across the street from Fort Knox. He said he watched the pilots running to there jets and alarms going off. Then we was all scared.
My girl had just had our second child and was scared for the world i had brought children in to
I was a senior in high school on 9/11 2001