Last semester of college. Walking to a class where we talked about current events and wrote Op/Ed pieces about them. A friend from the class told me what was going on as we walked to our classroom.

We were dismissed early. Walked across the street to my work-study job. They had the TV on in a lounge next door. Watched live as both towers fell.

I had been on the observation deck of the WTC just a few months prior. I had two friends with fathers in the Pentagon at the time it was struck. I had family very close to where 93 went down. It all hit very close to home.