I was a senior in HS. That morning, a friend of mine came to the bus stop and said something about a plane hitting one of the towers but I didn't really know what to think. This guy was a jokester at times and didn't really give any details.

At my school, every classroom has a TV. That day, every TV in the school was turned on all day long. It boggles my mind that some schools had that 'business as usual' attitude.

The town I lived in has a HUGE Boeing plant. It was Boeing's main headquarters at the time. So many people left work that day (including my step-mom) in fear that they would attack the west coast- and maybe try and stop plane production- that Boeing ended up just sending everybody home.

I still can't watch footage without tearing up. I don't think that to this day I've really wrapped my mind around the magnitude of these attacks. I can't comprehend the amount of hatred involved. Or the huge feeling of loss that seemed to lay like a blanket over the entire nation.