What were you doing on September 11, 2001?

I will never forget this day. A day in History I will tell my young kids about when they get older and celebrate this day to remember all of the people who lost their life to hate. We saw evil that day and distress of a Nation. I woke up by the Phone ringing. My soon to be Husband was already at work. I answered the phone and it was my Mother-n-law asking me if I still wanted to go Wedding Dress shopping and I was like, yeah why not? She then told me what happened in New York so I turned my TV to CNN. I saw the clip of the second plane hit the World Trade Center. I was in shock and not really believing what I just saw like something from a movie. My Husband called from work asking me if I was okay and said yes, not sure if I was or not. This has to be a dream and it's a real nightmare. We live on the West Coast so everything already happened, the towers were down, the Pentagon hit, the plane down in Shanksville, PA. It seemed like a world away and it's not sinking in. Sure, I wanted to go dress shopping and not because I didn't care what was going on, on the East Coast because I didn't want to believe what was happening. I wanted to keep moving forward and not let some terrorist defeat me. I didn't want to be scared so we went dress shopping. I wanted to be happy and I needed to be happy. I tried on some beautiful dresses but in the back of my mind I was thinking what am I doing in some boutique trying on Wedding dresses on a day our Country is in Chaos. So I went home and turned onto CNN for the rest of the day and night staying up watching all the terror unfolding in front of me. It really hit home for me was the silence in the sky because our apartment was a flight path for commercial airplanes flying into Portland International. It was a lonely feeling like I was the only one around. Every once in a while I heard fighter jets in the sky and are we at war and with whom? The devastation in front of me I didn't understand and it was real and it was happening. I was so speechless and hurting for people I didn't even know. I was crying for a Nation and a world who were impacted by this terror of evil. For a short bit we came together as a nation and a World united fighting against a small group of people trying to take away our freedom, a voice and a way of life. I don't ever want to forget this day and I will never let my children forget this day. To all the family and friends on American Airlines flight 11, United Airlines flight 175, American Airlines flight 77, United Airlines flight 93, all the Police, Fireman, all the people in the World Trade Center, and Pentagon I will forever remember you.