September 11, 2009 marks the eighth year since nearly 3,000 Americans were killed when planes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
Most of us could only sit and watch the events in horror.
There aren't many days that people remember exactly where they were, exactly what they were doing with very specific detail. But as we found out, September 11th 2001 was certainly one of those days.
"I had a television on," recalled Alicia Guthrie, "and I just remember thinking about all the people."
David Snapp was not far from our nation's capital, in northern Virginia. "I remember waking up and i was late for school and every channel had the same thing on it and I thought my TV was broken and then reality hit me of what it really was and it just kept showing the towers kept falling," said Snapp.
"We were golfing with some friends of ours," remembered Catherine Skurat, "one of the grounds keepers came over to us and said did you hear what's going on and when he first told us the story we all were like, 'what? no..' and then we went around the corner and one of the residents that lives there had a TV going and we could see it through his screened lanai and he called us right over and we realized what had happened," continued Skurat.
Rochelle Brajer was at school in northern New Jersey, not far from New York City. "I was in my first period, we had a huge assembly in our high school, and we were all told there was a huge accident in New York City and to call your families and make sure they were okay. I was the president of the school at the time and I was trying to keep everyone calm and I didn't really know what was going on," said Brajer.
"It was mind-blowing," said Melissa Mitchell, who was working at a bank in Myrtle Beach that September morning. "You just didn't know what to expect from it, you didn't know how to adapt to it, you didn't know what kind of emotion to show," she continued.
