September 11, 2001: My Memories of The Day the World Ended
I fell asleep on the night of September 10, 2001 as I had done every day for 7 years prior...Little did I know, the world I fell asleep in on the night of September 10 would not be the world I awoke to on September 11... For many years I thought I had seen the events of 9/11 unfold live but seeing as I was in Nevada at the time of the event, there really wasn't any way I could have since the first plane hit at around 5:46 AM where I lived and the second at about 6:03 AM. I wouldn't have even been awake until about an hour later. Regardless my memories of the day were quite vivid, I can recall going about my day quite normally until around 8 or 9 AM when I happened to walk by the living room TV where my grandmother, may she rest in peace, who was painfully addicted to Fox News was of course watching Fox News and the replays of the events were endless. I saw the footage of the planes hitting the towers, the towers collapsing, and endless talking. I was only 7 years old, so what t...
