YOU ARE VERY UNIQUE DAN! . YOUR SENSITIVITY, EMPATHY, LOVE, INTROSPECTIVENES, YOUR INTELLIGENCE, ALL THIS ASPECTS MAKE YOU SPECIAL! . YOUR PARENTS ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE PLANTED SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SEED.! DON'T EVER,EVER CHANGE!!👍🌞❤🌻
Dear child you have restored my faith in our younger generation. The fact that this song gave you cause to self reflect is one of the best things I've witnessed in a long time. And please remember it wasn't just two planes into the towers, one also hit the Pentagon, and one was taken back over by Brave selfless Americans that choose sacrifice their lives and literally forced the airplane to explode killing them rather than hit the target of the mad men sent from hell. Thank you sir!!!
Alan Jackson is a country music living legend, a true icon; this song is part of the reason. He wasn't going to perform or record it, because he didn't want to be taking advantage of the situation. His wife and music people heard it, and told him that people needed to hear it. Rather than the song he had planned to do on an awards show, he performed this for the first time! Hearing it was like putting a big Band Aid over our hurts. 💔 I believe it truly helped with our healing. Now, for a lot of fun, check out Alan's song and the official video for, "Chattahoochee"! I hope you aren't an unusual young man, because we sure need a lot more people like you! 🤠
The fact that you were not yet born serves as proof that life will go on and persevere despite the efforts of hatred to wipe us out - am SO glad you came along after/despite the effort to end us. Love, an American grandma. 🥰😘 PS: Kiss your parents for us. The depth of absolute compassion in your eyes keeps me coming back here. Thank you. You are beloved. 🥰
I was at work thinking one small plane had hit the tower. My sister called me and told me a second plane had hit. We knew then that life as we knew it had changed. I knelt with my kids praying for just one more to be pulled from the rubble. It's a day I'll never forget. I'll never forget the people who jumped rather than burn. Thank God they quit showing those pictures! They were people with families! There were the stories of those who were late to work for one reason or another and that saved their lives. My sisters and I went to NYC last year and paid our respects despite the tears. The names with "and unborn child" tore my heart apart.
As a retired EMT and volunteer firefighter, I remember. I was working at a small vet clinic...the veterinarian and I were in surgery. We didn't have a TV but did have a radio. The receptionist came into the surgical room and told us...the vet thought someone was pulling a joke on listeners. It didn't take long to realize that it wasn't a prank. I couldn't imagine what I was hearing on the radio....smoke, jumpers, people reduced to the tiniest pieces you'll ever see. On my lunch break I went to the Chinese restaurant...it was empty and it was obvious that they had been crying. I just sat there and watched the "replay" of everything. I went from not being to picture it to seeing it in slow motion. I am not a woman that crys often but this song is one that I do avoid at times when I know that I can't handle it. .Your reaction made me a subscriber...you're actually paying attention to the songs...a lot of people who do reactions aren't paying close attention so they miss crucial parts. Alan Jackson knows the difference between Iraq and Iran...that line is aimed at those who don't.
I am a nurse in NJ and was off and got up just before it happened. In anticipation of the magnitude of injuries we were anticipating I called work put on scrubs and let them know I would be in and be part of the front line team, it was something I would do, I had run EMS for years. I was explaining to my Mom I was going and why and watched the first tower come down and knew it was over. They called me from work and let me it was not necessary to come in. I drove 3 miles East to the harbor and stood watching the outcome after the Towers came down. We could see the large volume of boats moving toward Manhatten.
I was a month away from being 3 years old and I remember being in the living room with my mom who was rocking my 9 month old baby sister.. I remember the emotion that was coming off of my mom and I still to this day remember the feeling that was in that room. I don not remember much at all from that age but that is something I will never forget.
You are a wonderful human being Daniel. I’m sure ur parents are proud of the young man you’ve become. I lost my only son Daniel, 5 years ago. You remind me of him…….peace 🙏🏻
Alan Jackson is one of the greatest country singer ever. He wrote this songs. You might enjoy his song REMEMBER WHEN, and his tribute to the great Hank Williams, Sr. MIDNIGHT IN MONTGOMERY.
A few years after 9-11, three of my children and I took a vacation to the eastern United States. Along the way, we visited Shanksville, PA, NYC, and Washington, D.C., to pay our respects for those who died in the horrible attacks. I cried when I saw where the towers once stood, I cried when we drove past the Pentagon, but I cried the hardest in Shanksville as we stood looking over the field at the flag which marked the place where the plane hit. At that place, there was quiet, no sound of traffic or people talking, just the birds chirping. Memorials now stand at the three sites, but seeing it still "raw" gave me memories I shall never forget. My heart still cries for all those lost in the attacks.
He wrote the song in the week that 911 took place and sang it at a televised event (Grammys or country music awards?). It helped us who heard it to greave. ty for reacting to it. side note: please ask everyone to prayer send good thoughts to the Jackson family as Alan was diagnosed with a nerve disease Sept 22, 2021. Peace & Love, Y'all.
That sad day I was working as a social worker. I was in a peer records review committee meeting, when a team secretary came in and told us what happened. She brought in a TV so we could follow the news. With what was going on we couldn't concentrate on doing the job of reviewing the records in the charts, so the committee chairperson suggested that we adjourn and take our assigned charts to our cubicles and work on them there. We soon learned about the long lines that were forming outside gas stations. That's another indication that uncertainty and fears were a significant effect of the attack.
I was in my early 20s, away from home visiting family. My mother and I woke up to the news, held each other and cried. Flights were canceled, I couldn't go home to my job in healthcare. On September 12th we as a nation were kind and caring for everyone. The lines to donate blood were crazy. Honestly, please donate blood, covid has created a shortage. I'm still in healthcare.
I don't think you totally get the point of did you close your eyes and not go to sleep. Imo most of America we didn't go buy guns, we were in shock. Strangers held each other in grocery stores and cried and prayed. Talking to strangers on the street was honest to God how are you doing friend and people really cared. I'd never wish for a September 11th but on September 12th we loved each other like we were all family. The lines to donate blood were long and nobody cared. It was important to help.
I was 17 years old. I was at home, and had woke up not long before. I turned on the TV just in time to see the second tower get hit. I stood there is shock for a bit, but then broke down crying when the towers fell. I will never forget those feelings. My mom worked at the commissary on the base near where we lived. She was sent home early when the base went on lockdown.
I saw your reaction video on TH-cam. You are so young and yet so wise. My hope is that your generation will bring the change in the hearts of humanity. We need to come back together in this country. I pray for this every night before I go to sleep. God bless you.
I’m an American grandma … I’m not sure I can tell you the difference between Iraq and Iran but I did give my own blood … I DO know that I love you. Thank you for the reaction 😘🥰
I worked 3rd shift at the time and just got from work and was unwinding and watching tv before going to bed. I didnt go to bed for awhile that day. I remember I called my grandma and said" Mimi are you watching this? "She said yes and "I'm so glad you all home". My sister and our aunt and I had been in Washington DC about 3 weeks before that.
I'm a paramedic, and I was on my way to work when the 1st plane hit. I thought that some poor pilot had had a heart attack. Then the 2nd plane hit, and there was no doubt what was happening. Those of us at our base about to hit the streets, stood in dispatch as the buildings fell. The plane brought down by brave passengers in a Pennsylvania field saved a hit to the White House-that's where it was headed. And the plane that hit the Pentagon. God bless all those who died, may He bless all those families left behind. God bless America!! #Neverforget
“People who are killing in the name of God are not really killing in the name of God” this is so profound and so true. These 19 men claimed to be killing in the name of God, but forgot one little detail about our religion: it considers murder to be the most heinous sin and is forbidden *even in “j!had”* (which means struggle/striving… it no more means killing than the fight/struggle for racial equality or women’s suffrage, or the fight/struggle against a personal “demon” like substances.) Alan Jackson premiered this song at the CMA awards very soon after 9/11; I want to say he had written the song only the week before. I don’t watch a lot of awards shows but I did watch this one, and wow what an experience… I can’t imagine there were many dry eyes in that house. Years later I heard it described as Mr Jackson’s voice and song giving the country a big hug, and that’s exactly what it felt like to me. Thank you (3 years later 😆) for such a beautiful and heartfelt reaction, and for sharing your thoughts
I just saw your reaction of nearly a year ago…you said you didn’t expect to have such an intense reaction. I didn’t expect to have such an intense reaction to YOUR reaction!!! All I can say is…your parents did an OUTSTANDING job. You are a thinking, caring and loving person…There is a real movement to not teach about 9/11…it should not be forgotten!!! To remember is not to hate, but to honor those who died. Maybe the most profound thing said in this song and reaction was said by you…(paraphrasing) The best way to change the world is to change yourself…wow…Outta the mouths of babes…THANKS
I was at a red light not far from home. The lady in the next car started yelling at me to turn on my radio! When I got home alone watching the news, I just walked in circles, wringing my hands, crying and feeling helpless. Nothing I could do from Florida. You are so right, Daniel. God does not cause these tragedies, Man do this things to each other. And, what did this cause? Just more war! Even atheists have faith though they may not know it. When you flip the light switch, you have faith the light will come on, etc.. I don't consider myself a traditional Christian though I do believe in a Supreme power who I pray to. What is right and true in any country or religion is true for all. And the greatest is love. You need to watch some Lucy shows. You won't regret it.
What a horrible day... Every morning I would drink my coffee while watching news as I would get ready for work. I turned on the news right after the first plane hit and watched, angered as the second plane hit (telling my gf that we're under attack); an anger that turned to a pain that no words can convey as we watched those who jumped from the towers.. That was the last day I would watch the news as a morning ritual.. What brings tears to my eyes isn't some silly song, it's the memory that I both hate never leaves and hope never does; it's the loss on the day of the attacks and the loss of the unity shared in it's immediate aftermath..
By noon on September 11, 2001, I was in an army recruiting office. I believed I was doing the right thing for the country. I spent the next four years as a combat medic with two deployments. I don't know that I did the right thing, but I didn't know any other way to respond. I'm still haunted from over there, and disgusted by the lies we were fed by politicians. I desperately hope that something we did over there mattered. Thank you if you've taken the time to read my words. Take care of yourselves and each other, especially now.
Thank you for your sevice. I am sorry for any suffering you may endure and pray God blesses you with peace and joy. I know everyone says it and it may ring shallow but if you need a friend just holler.
I live on the west coast, so I was still in bed with the TV on and my husband was in the shower. In my 1/2 asleep state, I heard them say on the TV that all airplanes in the air were ordered to land immediately and that caught my attention. I sat up and started watching what was going on. I was 36 and hadn't been to church in close to 20 years, but I was compelled to go, so yes, I did go to church and hold hands with some strangers. There were flags flying all over the neighborhood and it made me cry going down the street. That was the only time that I have ever felt that every American was together. When you look at what's happening today to believe that we were ever all together in our horror of this day.
That Tuesday morning I was home from work waiting to take my daughter to her prenatal doctor appointment. My late husband and I were watching Good Morning America. They announced that there was a fire of some sort at one of the World Trade Center buildings. A live close up shot of the building showed a large hole in the side. My husband said that wasn't a small plane! While we watched a second plane banked around the other building and flew right into the side of it in a large explosion or flames and smoke! We just sat there not believing what we had just seen! The whole Country was in s state of shock for days and weeks after that day. I can't think of any other event of that impacted so many lives other than Pearl Harbor that marked our entrance into WW2! There are just some things that you live through that leave a larger than life impression.
The fact that you were not yet a sparkle in your parent's eyes and had this genuine reaction to these events speaks volumes to your character. I knew one of the NYPD officers who ran into the building. Never forget. I won't. 🇺🇸👮
There is an actor who has been in some really big movies, including The Bruce Willis movie Armageddon,named Steve Buscemi,who at one time was a NYC fire fighter,and during 911 went back quietly without the "look at me"crap and temporarily rejoined his unit and worked 12 and 15 hour days searching the rubble for survivors and recovering remains
Hey Daniel, well, I'm a little behind again. I've heard this song before, great song by country great Alan Jackson. Where was I on September 11, 2001? I was home with the TV on getting ready for work on that beautiful Tuesday morning when suddenly the news came that a "small" plane hit one of the towers at the World Trade Center. My immediate reaction was, how can a pilot not see such a massive building? The WTC were two massive buildings a 110 stories high and one square acre each. Very hard to miss from the ground or air. I continue to watch on TV and saw the second plane hit the south tower. Suddenly a coldness fell over me and I knew right away it was no accident. I stayed home the rest of the day and watched the collapse of the WTC, the attack on the Pentagon, the down of flight 93 in PA and the collapse of WTC building 7 that occurred early that evening. I grew up 30 miles from NYC. As a teenager my friends and I were in and out of the city all the time and visiting the WTC was a treat, especially visiting the observatory on the 110th floor and on days when the weather was nice, the roof the south tower was open to the public. Imagine standing on the roof of the WTC south tower a 110 stories up. Just you and the heavens. Sadly, my last visit was a late Saturday afternoon in August 2001 when I stopped briefly to watch a live big band concert (the music of the 1940s) open to the public on the rotunda of the WTC. There were a several hundred people and many were dancing to swing, swing, swing. It never crossed my mind that a month later the towers would be gone. About a year later, I visited ground zero to see the rubble where the towers once stood. If you get the chance, visit the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in NYC. As Americans, we must never forget.
WOW 20 years later. On that day, I was in Phoenix AZ for work, and a lieutenant in the National Guard. I spent the next few days trying to work out how to get to my unit back in Tennessee.
I had a very good friend who was in the north tower. He made it out safe, lost 6 of his coworkers, but spent years struggling with depression, guilt, and ptsd. A year ago he committed suicide. My heart goes out to all those who lost their lives that day, but also to all those whose lives it has claimed since.
I was in Washington DC. I had just started my own business handling trade shows. I was helping at a conference for senior citizens. The lady I was working with and I had to get over 1000 attendees home. Luckily my family was back in Baltimore and was lucky enough to have a cellphone (they weren't as common as today.
My brother was in Boston on a business trip, and he was supposed to be on the plane that crashed in the field. The meeting went long, and he was supposed to catch a later flight. We didn't know that, and couldn't get through to him on the phone. We were terrified for almost a whole day before he was able to contact us. That was a horrible time. I know I had terrible nightmares for years from watching video of those poor people jumping out of those towers, rather than burn. It still brings tears if I think too much about it. A horrible horrible time.
9/11 I had just dropped all my kids off at the school I Drive a School Bus in Texas . We got the call to go on stand-by if we would send kids home . I ran to the school and picked my son up no matter what my child was coming home . We sat at watched together the live news all day . My husband came home from work and he never does that in 25 years he’s only taken off work maybe ten days and this was one of them .
I was repairing a flat tractor tire that morning at work. I had just turned 21 a couple months earlier. I know I grew up alot between waking up that morning, and going to bed that night. Alot of us young guys were seriously thinking it was a chance the military draft would be reinstated, and that we might have to go fight these evil murderers. We were scared, but we would have done it in a heartbeat! This country was a different place than it is now. We were all united by this. We became a team, in a way I cant imagine ever happening again. The world completely changed that day. We lost ALOT of our freedoms that day.
i watched the towers being built traveling from ct to nj to visit family when i was a child. the nyc skyline still looks empty and my heart feels that emptiness every time i look at it now.
I was in 3rd grade, didn’t really comprehend the severity of it at the time…but it was the first time I saw fear in my parents eyes. My dads words verbatim “pilots don’t hit buildings they can see” Dad was a combat controller and mom just got out of the Air Force as an air traffic controller so they both knew he was going to war but was mom gonna be recalled (sorry if that’s the wrong term) I can’t imagine the emotions they felt in that tiny living room.
6th grade English class. Talk a test. The teacher came in and locked the door and said the school was on lockdown. 2 hours later we were sent home early. My mom met me and old sister(who was in high school) at the bus stop and we walked home and watched Disney movies.
I cry every time I hear this song, and I'm so glad you reacted to it. Thank you for such a beautiful reaction. I could tell that it hit deep into your soul. I was on my way to work and did not know about the attacks until I got there and someone had brought a tv to watch. I was 51 then, and at 70, there are three things that I cannot read/watch without tears....Normandy, Pearl Harbor, and September 11, 2001.
Thank you for honoring those lost by scrolling their names. When 9-11 happened, I was home taking care of my young daughter. Her dad called me and told me to turn on the news. It took me a while to comprehend what was happening. It left me feeling quite unsettled for weeks. I would like to encourage you to listen to a beautiful song written by Mary Chapin Carpenter after she heard the experience of a man who worked in the hours after 9-11 looking for survivors amidst the rubble. He talked about bearing the weight of those lives lost, which I think you will connect with. It was such a powerful experience and is such a beautiful, powerful song. It's called "Grand Central Station". Please give it a listen, and find out the story behind it.
I was at work and people kept getting texts and phone calls from their families telling them what happened. I got home...turned on CNN and spent the rest of the night staring at the TV in total shock. We had a few Americans working at our plant in Canada and because everything shut down they couldn't go home. I didn't know what to say to them... I just offered a hug if they wanted one. It was a very sad day.
Being only 7 at the time I don’t remember much, but I do remember watching tv when the 86th floor call was aired. I do remember the sadness and frenzy after that day more. I’m shocked sometimes by the attitude of some of the younger generation when events like this are brought up. I’ve watched many documentaries about this too, and they average 3000+ people were killed but only 300 bodies were found in the rubble.
Yes, I stayed to the end. And it was a very fitting and heartfelt tribute."It is not up to us to change everybody else. It is up to us to change ourselves".- Daniel.
My mom was getting her first managram. She was done and entered her car when the first plane collided. Later, she was working at her place when her boss ordered everyone home. She worked in Buffalo, you see, and the building was very tall. They weren’t taking any chances. I wasn’t born yet.
I was stationed at Ft. Belvoir Virginia ...3 hours later at the pentagon ... two weeks before I even saw video. I grew up in a town called Pearl River New York heavily populated with NYPD/FD my father said there were funerals weekly for months.
This has to be the best reaction to where were you when the world stopped turning. Going through at the end showing the names of all that were killed on 9/11. I remember where I was. I was at my parents house cause I was pregnant with my first child and my husband worked at an amusement park then so he worked late and we thought it was best incase I went into labor while he was at work . By the way . Hi I just found your channel do to this reaction.
I was 12 when it happened and at home not feeling too well. Mom had gone to the library which was in walking distance. Then my grandmother called asking for mom. When I asked what was wrong she told me to turn on the news. I remember watching and being so scared that even though I didn't feel good I wound up walking to the library to tell mom and my librarian about what was happening. They and several other people were watching on the computers and crying. So was I.
Let's not forget those first responders who went looking for survivors from that day. We lost so many years later from the cancers they got from all the crap that they breathed in while digging in the debris. And those that are still suffering.
I was retired. I had a hair appointment and was dressing. So I did not have my T V on. When I got in my car, the news was on, and I was stunned. At the beauty shop, they had the TV on and I saw the pictures for the first time.
I was sitting at my local VA waiting on an Appointment watching it on TV with a room full of other veterans, all our jaws on the floor, we all knew we were under attack, and none of us were in a position to help, and man that is the most helpless feeling in the World!
I liked how the song addresses this from the viewpoint of the average American when they saw what happened. Most of us can identify with those feelings. The pain, horror, and heartbreak of that day, will be imprinted on our souls forever. And it should.
Yes it home with me I am a 9/11 survivor I was in the south tower the plane hit 10 floors above me and I got out of the south tower just as it started to fall I was buried for 10 hours and i almost died from loss of blood and crush skull among other injuries and burns. I lost alot of friends including my best friend I will never forget
I was sitting in my recliner recuperating from foot surgery . My daughter in law called me and screamed turn on the TV. I turned it on and it was terrifieing. I. saw both planes when they hit the towers. I saw people jumping out of the windows. It was beyond horrible. There were children in the buildings in the daycare center.
Darling Daniel, On 9/11 I was up early so I could watch the Kinsey Sicks on the CBS morning show. I am a big fan I turned on my bedroom TV after the first plane but before the second. I sat, stunned, in my bed and begged my husband, Greig, not to get on the bus and go downtown in Dallas. He worked hit in a skyscraper called Thanksgiving Tower. It seemed to me that, with that name, it would be a likely target for terrorists. He wouldn’t sit down and pay attention! Tears were streaming down my face when he left. Then, the second plane hit, and I screamed. My imagination supplied the details. The people in the second tower were watching through the windows as the horror unfolded, as the plane quickly grew closer, bigger and bigger, until the impact. I was imagining all kinds of horrific things. It dawned on me after awhile that all of the dust was partially the ashes of the people that had been blown out of the buildings, covering the people on the street below. Horror after horror just kept happening. My brother, Scott, called, and we agreed that we wanted my husband home, so my brother braved impossible traffic to go get him. I remember the thick dust all over George Stephanopolis of ABC News. I remember all the women’s shoes discarded on the streets so their owners could run. I remember the body of the NYFD chaplain-priest carried so carefully from the rubble. I I remember , years later, Peter Jennings of ABC News saying that he went back to smoking that day, and it killed him. I wonder how many people died that way. I remember the plane crash in Pennsylvania, where the passengers sacrificed themselves and attacked the hijackers, preventing them from hitting their target - likely the White House. I remember when the last plane hit the Pentagon. Daniel. That day was one unimaginable horror after another, and nobody knew what was next, or where. The thing to do was to cling to those I love, and cry all over my dog, Angel. Daniel, the human race clings to love and to life even more after crisis - look up increases in birth rates nine months after disasters. Praise God! And, God bless you, precious young man! Love, Leanna in Oklahoma
I was driving to work on the freeway when I heard it on the car radio (1 st tower). After I got to the office, a TV was on and Tower 2 was just hit. Immediately everyone in the country knew it was an attack. I think the total loss of life was 3000.
Just discovered you today, so I'm obviously late on this. I remember exactly where I was on that day. I was in high school, in the 10th grade. I'd woken up and walked to school, and when I got to my first class, the TV was on. I think by that time, the second tower might have been hit, and shortly thereafter, the President came on. My first feelings, of course, were shock. Like, there's no way this can be real. But it obviously was. Then later, my feelings shifted from shock, to anger, and wanting payback. Well, I was a hot-headed teenager back then... Anyway, later on that day, my family and I went to go see my grandma...it was her 80th birthday. The feeling was still surreal, even for her, I imagine. Even though we went there for her, most of the other family members who were there, watched the news, and gathered what information they could. Of course, this was back in the days when the Internet was really just starting to take off, so the news was our primary source of information. There were plenty of websites around, sure, but things like video sites, etc., weren't really a thing yet, and especially not livestreaming (which didn't yet exist). You had the odd clip now and then, but those were rare. I believe I still have copies somewhere of some old clips that were passed around on some old peer-to-peer networks. Anyway... I really appreciate your analysis of the song, and taking the time to pay your respects to the victims. Seems like paying respects to the dead is something that our culture is slowly losing, amongst many other good things. God bless you, young man.
I was just getting off work from the night shift when the first plane hit. I went and picked my son up early from school worried about what was coming next. Went home horrified watching that day unfold on TV.
I was in 6th grade. We had been standardized testing all morning, and had just gotten back from music class. Our teacher tactfully told us, and turned on the news. Someone in our class had just gotten back from the WTC and New York with his family the week before. Pray for the ones who don’t know. Many families were in a state of constant grief and stress, not knowing if they would ever see their loved ones again. It was weeks upon weeks before they knew 100% sure. Will never forget that day. Many first responders lost their lives too, not just the ones on the planes or in the buildings, the ones that ran headfirst into danger to try and help their fellow neighbors, and were in the buildings helping when they went down.
I was in 10th grade history class- we had just started a chapter on world religion. Absolute panic hit. Parents came running to the school to sign kids out. I came home and found my WW2 Vet Grandfather crying and shaking with anger. That’s was my day.
I worked At Virginia Hospital center were we were getting people from the pentongon. That day everyone worked in the hospital together no matter what job you were doing. I worked in the X-ray department and I took people to on test or anther by pushing people on stretchers. I worked there twenty-three years and that was the first time that I have seen things that bad. I still to this day have dreams about that day. I don't work anymore because I have a pacemaker in now. No matter how long you never forget.
I was at work when the boss walked up to me and said , you wont believe what just happened ! the next couple of weeks were really odd , not a plane in the sky ! and for a while the nation did something it has`nt done since ! forgotten their differences and pulled together !
Daniel, I was 17 when 9/11 happened. I watched the towers fall in real-time via a newscast on a classroom television. I was also in high school two years earlier when the Columbine massacre occurred. When you say, "Let's just stop the taking of human life, please," it cuts deep. Even in my own lifetime--even in yours--there's been so much needless death. We so carelessly devalue each other, so often fail to see the Image of God in the face of our neighbors, so quickly let hurt turn to anger and violence instead of grace and forgiveness. It robs us of each other, it robs us of ourselves, and it is heartbreaking. Keep listening to the music, Daniel. Keep digging deep into the meaning of each incredible piece of art. Keep seeking out the goodness, truth, and beauty that, by providence, still exists in the world, even amidst the brokenness.
I was doing eye exams and my husband was working in Florida. I was in a panic. The entire city of Atlanta was shut down. No cell phone available and we had no idea what would happen next. I prayed and thought that this might be the end. Thank you Jesus that my family was safe.
I know this is a couple of years old, but I just wanted to tell you, I hope you get the chance, if you haven’t already, to watch the videos “The Great Boat Lift of 9/11” and The Hero Dogs of 9/11. Thanks for your heartfelt reaction. I always cry when I hear this song. It brings back haunting memories of the chirping sounds coming from the alarms on the gear of the fallen firefighters. And the horrible sounds of people hitting the streets when they jumped to their deaths. I was sitting in my home office watching g the news when they broke in with the news of the planes hitting the towers. I called some friends at work and told them. I even took them a spare tv so they could watch what was going on. Such a horrific day/s.
I was sitting on my couch watching tv. My partner was in the shower. It was horrifying. The first one you thought maybe it was an accident. Then you learned of the other attacks. I will never never never forget that day.
I did not find out about the attacks until about 9 hours afte, due to being asleep from working 3rd shift. When I got to my bowling league that evening I mentioned the movie on TV looked realistic and then I was told of what happened.
Alan Jackson is a valuable comity for any genre of music. A wonderful writer and great singer. He’s one that always unites us in times of trouble. This song meant so much to so many during this time. He was able to say what we were all feeling in this horrific situation.
I CAN'T FATHOM LOSING YOUR LOVED ONES IN A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION LIKE THIS. I LOST MY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER NOT TOO LONG AGO. AND, MY WORLD TURNED OUSIDE DOWN. PART OF ME LEFT WITH HER! .. I UNDERSTAND AND, EMPATHIZE WITH DEATH. IT'S EXTREMELY PAINFUL!.
Thank you, Daniel, for looking at this song. I was on my way to work here in Washington State. I heard it on the radio. When I paid for gas and saw the tv in the store, I was shocked. The second tower had just been hit. At work, we had the radio playing in the warehouse and the tv on in the break room. When we took our lunch, the towers fell. We continued the day. I went home, sat on the sofa and watched the news. I wept. I sobbed. All I could think about were all those lives. I wasn't listening to the conjecture. I wasn't thinking about wanting to destroy muslims. I was completely fearful for my country, and saddened at the immense loss of life. When the story of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania became known, I wept more. They showed video of the people jumping from the windows... they were the most horrific scenes of the day. I was a zombie for an entire week. Weeping for no reason throughout the days.
I remember those people that decided to jump out of windows rather than die from the fire. It was heartbreaking. The next day this country was united like nothing I've ever seen. We should be like that all the time.
I had just finished a long night shift as a Senior Ramp Controller for a major cargo airline. I had been in bed for about45 minutes when my wife burst into our bedroom, turned on the TV, and woke me up. We sat together watching the north tower burning. I couldn't believe that an aircraft, especially a passenger airliner would accidentally hit that building. My fear was confirmed when just after 9:00am the second aircraft hit the south tower. Then the Pentagon was hit by another aircraft. it led me to get in shape and back in the uniform I hadn't worn for 18 years.
I lived in New Jersey and had a project that took me to San Francisco at least once a month for two years. I always took United flight 93 cause it left Newark Airport at 8AM and got into SF at 11AM Pacific time...giving me almost a full day before meetings began....to this day, 19 years later, I wonder if I would have had the guts to try and retake the plane with the other passengers...how would I have felt as the plane went down in that field in Pennsylvania?? It was a great flight because it was usually a jumbo jet that had few passengers and a big crew to take care of you.....I still have nightmares about what happened to that flight....and how I could have been on it....
Thank You for Being You and Keep Doing What You Do ♡ Love and Prayers from Southern Ohio🥰🇺🇲
YOU ARE VERY UNIQUE DAN! . YOUR SENSITIVITY, EMPATHY, LOVE, INTROSPECTIVENES, YOUR INTELLIGENCE, ALL THIS ASPECTS MAKE YOU SPECIAL! . YOUR PARENTS ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE PLANTED SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SEED.! DON'T EVER,EVER CHANGE!!👍🌞❤🌻
Dear child you have restored my faith in our younger generation. The fact that this song gave you cause to self reflect is one of the best things I've witnessed in a long time. And please remember it wasn't just two planes into the towers, one also hit the Pentagon, and one was taken back over by Brave selfless Americans that choose sacrifice their lives and literally forced the airplane to explode killing them rather than hit the target of the mad men sent from hell. Thank you sir!!!
Alan Jackson is a country music living legend, a true icon; this song is part of the reason.
He wasn't going to perform or record it, because he didn't want to be taking advantage of the situation. His wife and music people heard it, and told him that people needed to hear it. Rather than the song he had planned to do on an awards show, he performed this for the first time! Hearing it was like putting a big Band Aid over our hurts. 💔 I believe it truly helped with our healing.
Now, for a lot of fun, check out Alan's song and the official video for, "Chattahoochee"!
I hope you aren't an unusual young man, because we sure need a lot more people like you! 🤠
Thanks D. For these superb choices of music! .!.👍👍👍👍❤🌻
The fact that you were not yet born serves as proof that life will go on and persevere despite the efforts of hatred to wipe us out - am SO glad you came along after/despite the effort to end us. Love, an American grandma. 🥰😘 PS: Kiss your parents for us.
The depth of absolute compassion in your eyes keeps me coming back here. Thank you. You are beloved. 🥰
YOURE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT DANIEL!. YOU COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!!.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤
I was at work thinking one small plane had hit the tower. My sister called me and told me a second plane had hit. We knew then that life as we knew it had changed. I knelt with my kids praying for just one more to be pulled from the rubble. It's a day I'll never forget. I'll never forget the people who jumped rather than burn. Thank God they quit showing those pictures! They were people with families! There were the stories of those who were late to work for one reason or another and that saved their lives. My sisters and I went to NYC last year and paid our respects despite the tears. The names with "and unborn child" tore my heart apart.
As a retired EMT and volunteer firefighter, I remember. I was working at a small vet clinic...the veterinarian and I were in surgery. We didn't have a TV but did have a radio. The receptionist came into the surgical room and told us...the vet thought someone was pulling a joke on listeners. It didn't take long to realize that it wasn't a prank. I couldn't imagine what I was hearing on the radio....smoke, jumpers, people reduced to the tiniest pieces you'll ever see. On my lunch break I went to the Chinese restaurant...it was empty and it was obvious that they had been crying. I just sat there and watched the "replay" of everything. I went from not being to picture it to seeing it in slow motion. I am not a woman that crys often but this song is one that I do avoid at times when I know that I can't handle it.
.Your reaction made me a subscriber...you're actually paying attention to the songs...a lot of people who do reactions aren't paying close attention so they miss crucial parts.
Alan Jackson knows the difference between Iraq and Iran...that line is aimed at those who don't.
I am a nurse in NJ and was off and got up just before it happened. In anticipation of the magnitude of injuries we were anticipating I called work put on scrubs and let them know I would be in and be part of the front line team, it was something I would do, I had run EMS for years. I was explaining to my Mom I was going and why and watched the first tower come down and knew it was over. They called me from work and let me it was not necessary to come in. I drove 3 miles East to the harbor and stood watching the outcome after the Towers came down. We could see the large volume of boats moving toward Manhatten.
I was a month away from being 3 years old and I remember being in the living room with my mom who was rocking my 9 month old baby sister.. I remember the emotion that was coming off of my mom and I still to this day remember the feeling that was in that room. I don not remember much at all from that age but that is something I will never forget.
You are a wonderful human being Daniel. I’m sure ur parents are proud of the young man you’ve become. I lost my only son Daniel, 5 years ago. You remind me of him…….peace 🙏🏻
Alan Jackson is one of the greatest country singer ever. He wrote this songs. You might enjoy his song REMEMBER WHEN, and his tribute to the great Hank Williams, Sr. MIDNIGHT IN MONTGOMERY.
A few years after 9-11, three of my children and I took a vacation to the eastern United States. Along the way, we visited Shanksville, PA, NYC, and Washington, D.C., to pay our respects for those who died in the horrible attacks. I cried when I saw where the towers once stood, I cried when we drove past the Pentagon, but I cried the hardest in Shanksville as we stood looking over the field at the flag which marked the place where the plane hit. At that place, there was quiet, no sound of traffic or people talking, just the birds chirping. Memorials now stand at the three sites, but seeing it still "raw" gave me memories I shall never forget. My heart still cries for all those lost in the attacks.
He wrote the song in the week that 911 took place and sang it at a televised event (Grammys or country music awards?). It helped us who heard it to greave. ty for reacting to it. side note: please ask everyone to prayer send good thoughts to the Jackson family as Alan was diagnosed with a nerve disease Sept 22, 2021. Peace & Love, Y'all.
That sad day I was working as a social worker. I was in a peer records review committee meeting, when a team secretary came in and told us what happened. She brought in a TV so we could follow the news. With what was going on we couldn't concentrate on doing the job of reviewing the records in the charts, so the committee chairperson suggested that we adjourn and take our assigned charts to our cubicles and work on them there. We soon learned about the long lines that were forming outside gas stations. That's another indication that uncertainty and fears were a significant effect of the attack.
I was working at the hospital when people came from the pentongon. Tank you so much. That song means allot.
I was in my early 20s, away from home visiting family. My mother and I woke up to the news, held each other and cried. Flights were canceled, I couldn't go home to my job in healthcare. On September 12th we as a nation were kind and caring for everyone. The lines to donate blood were crazy. Honestly, please donate blood, covid has created a shortage. I'm still in healthcare.
I don't think you totally get the point of did you close your eyes and not go to sleep. Imo most of America we didn't go buy guns, we were in shock. Strangers held each other in grocery stores and cried and prayed. Talking to strangers on the street was honest to God how are you doing friend and people really cared. I'd never wish for a September 11th but on September 12th we loved each other like we were all family. The lines to donate blood were long and nobody cared. It was important to help.
I was 17 years old. I was at home, and had woke up not long before. I turned on the TV just in time to see the second tower get hit. I stood there is shock for a bit, but then broke down crying when the towers fell. I will never forget those feelings. My mom worked at the commissary on the base near where we lived. She was sent home early when the base went on lockdown.
I saw your reaction video on TH-cam. You are so young and yet so wise. My hope is that your generation will bring the change in the hearts of humanity. We need to come back together in this country. I pray for this every night before I go to sleep. God bless you.
When you said, "Sorry" for saying what you feel...never, never apologize for stating your beliefs. Thank you for showing us your humanity.
Today is Veteran’s Day in the US…. 2022. Thank you for your perspective.
I’m an American grandma … I’m not sure I can tell you the difference between Iraq and Iran but I did give my own blood … I DO know that I love you. Thank you for the reaction 😘🥰
I worked 3rd shift at the time and just got from work and was unwinding and watching tv before going to bed. I didnt go to bed for awhile that day. I remember I called my grandma and said" Mimi are you watching this? "She said yes and "I'm so glad you all home". My sister and our aunt and I had been in Washington DC about 3 weeks before that.
I'm a paramedic, and I was on my way to work when the 1st plane hit. I thought that some poor pilot had had a heart attack. Then the 2nd plane hit, and there was no doubt what was happening. Those of us at our base about to hit the streets, stood in dispatch as the buildings fell. The plane brought down by brave passengers in a Pennsylvania field saved a hit to the White House-that's where it was headed. And the plane that hit the Pentagon. God bless all those who died, may He bless all those families left behind. God bless America!! #Neverforget
I am a healthcare provider & was making rounds in a hospital. It was on every TV in every room. I will never forget the devastation & loss.
Thank you for taking time to show the names of those we lost..."....no one truly dies as long as their name is spoken. " k. (TX)
“People who are killing in the name of God are not really killing in the name of God” this is so profound and so true. These 19 men claimed to be killing in the name of God, but forgot one little detail about our religion: it considers murder to be the most heinous sin and is forbidden *even in “j!had”* (which means struggle/striving… it no more means killing than the fight/struggle for racial equality or women’s suffrage, or the fight/struggle against a personal “demon” like substances.)
Alan Jackson premiered this song at the CMA awards very soon after 9/11; I want to say he had written the song only the week before. I don’t watch a lot of awards shows but I did watch this one, and wow what an experience… I can’t imagine there were many dry eyes in that house. Years later I heard it described as Mr Jackson’s voice and song giving the country a big hug, and that’s exactly what it felt like to me.
Thank you (3 years later 😆) for such a beautiful and heartfelt reaction, and for sharing your thoughts
All these years later, I can not hear this song without crying.
I just saw your reaction of nearly a year ago…you said you didn’t expect to have such an intense reaction. I didn’t expect to have such an intense reaction to YOUR reaction!!! All I can say is…your parents did an OUTSTANDING job. You are a thinking, caring and loving person…There is a real movement to not teach about 9/11…it should not be forgotten!!! To remember is not to hate, but to honor those who died. Maybe the most profound thing said in this song and reaction was said by you…(paraphrasing) The best way to change the world is to change yourself…wow…Outta the mouths of babes…THANKS
I was at a red light not far from home. The lady in the next car started yelling at me to turn on my radio! When I got home alone watching the news, I just walked in circles, wringing my hands, crying and feeling helpless. Nothing I could do from Florida.
You are so right, Daniel. God does not cause these tragedies, Man do this things to each other. And, what did this cause? Just more war! Even atheists have faith though they may not know it. When you flip the light switch, you have faith the light will come on, etc.. I don't consider myself a traditional Christian though I do believe in a Supreme power who I pray to. What is right and true in any country or religion is true for all. And the greatest is love.
You need to watch some Lucy shows. You won't regret it.
I just buried my stepdad it came on TV my sister's were both in NY we didn't know where they were at for days.
Corner of Manhattan Avenue, and Buena Vista. Tampa, Fl. God bless America, her troops, and all her People. Capt.Bob, SV 27th Chance, Tampa Fl
What a horrible day... Every morning I would drink my coffee while watching news as I would get ready for work. I turned on the news right after the first plane hit and watched, angered as the second plane hit (telling my gf that we're under attack); an anger that turned to a pain that no words can convey as we watched those who jumped from the towers.. That was the last day I would watch the news as a morning ritual.. What brings tears to my eyes isn't some silly song, it's the memory that I both hate never leaves and hope never does; it's the loss on the day of the attacks and the loss of the unity shared in it's immediate aftermath..
By noon on September 11, 2001, I was in an army recruiting office. I believed I was doing the right thing for the country. I spent the next four years as a combat medic with two deployments. I don't know that I did the right thing, but I didn't know any other way to respond. I'm still haunted from over there, and disgusted by the lies we were fed by politicians. I desperately hope that something we did over there mattered. Thank you if you've taken the time to read my words. Take care of yourselves and each other, especially now.
I desperately hope that something we did over there mattered. " Oh it matters, it always matters ! " Thanks for your service "
it mattered to me.thank you
Thank you for your sevice. I am sorry for any suffering you may endure and pray God blesses you with peace and joy. I know everyone says it and it may ring shallow but if you need a friend just holler.
Thank you for your service
What you did mattered!!!
I live on the west coast, so I was still in bed with the TV on and my husband was in the shower. In my 1/2 asleep state, I heard them say on the TV that all airplanes in the air were ordered to land immediately and that caught my attention. I sat up and started watching what was going on. I was 36 and hadn't been to church in close to 20 years, but I was compelled to go, so yes, I did go to church and hold hands with some strangers. There were flags flying all over the neighborhood and it made me cry going down the street. That was the only time that I have ever felt that every American was together. When you look at what's happening today to believe that we were ever all together in our horror of this day.
That Tuesday morning I was home from work waiting to take my daughter to her prenatal doctor appointment. My late husband and I were watching Good Morning America. They announced that there was a fire of some sort at one of the World Trade Center buildings. A live close up shot of the building showed a large hole in the side. My husband said that wasn't a small plane! While we watched a second plane banked around the other building and flew right into the side of it in a large explosion or flames and smoke! We just sat there not believing what we had just seen! The whole Country was in s state of shock for days and weeks after that day. I can't think of any other event of that impacted so many lives other than Pearl Harbor that marked our entrance into WW2! There are just some things that you live through that leave a larger than life impression.
The fact that you were not yet a sparkle in your parent's eyes and had this genuine reaction to these events speaks volumes to your character. I knew one of the NYPD officers who ran into the building. Never forget. I won't. 🇺🇸👮
There is an actor who has been in some really big movies, including The Bruce Willis movie Armageddon,named Steve Buscemi,who at one time was a NYC fire fighter,and during 911 went back quietly without the "look at me"crap and temporarily rejoined his unit and worked 12 and 15 hour days searching the rubble for survivors and recovering remains
I’ll never forget him for doing that
Hey Daniel, well, I'm a little behind again. I've heard this song before, great song by country great Alan Jackson. Where was I on September 11, 2001? I was home with the TV on getting ready for work on that beautiful Tuesday morning when suddenly the news came that a "small" plane hit one of the towers at the World Trade Center. My immediate reaction was, how can a pilot not see such a massive building? The WTC were two massive buildings a 110 stories high and one square acre each. Very hard to miss from the ground or air. I continue to watch on TV and saw the second plane hit the south tower. Suddenly a coldness fell over me and I knew right away it was no accident. I stayed home the rest of the day and watched the collapse of the WTC, the attack on the Pentagon, the down of flight 93 in PA and the collapse of WTC building 7 that occurred early that evening. I grew up 30 miles from NYC. As a teenager my friends and I were in and out of the city all the time and visiting the WTC was a treat, especially visiting the observatory on the 110th floor and on days when the weather was nice, the roof the south tower was open to the public. Imagine standing on the roof of the WTC south tower a 110 stories up. Just you and the heavens. Sadly, my last visit was a late Saturday afternoon in August 2001 when I stopped briefly to watch a live big band concert (the music of the 1940s) open to the public on the rotunda of the WTC. There were a several hundred people and many were dancing to swing, swing, swing. It never crossed my mind that a month later the towers would be gone. About a year later, I visited ground zero to see the rubble where the towers once stood. If you get the chance, visit the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in NYC. As Americans, we must never forget.
WOW 20 years later. On that day, I was in Phoenix AZ for work, and a lieutenant in the National Guard. I spent the next few days trying to work out how to get to my unit back in Tennessee.
I had a very good friend who was in the north tower. He made it out safe, lost 6 of his coworkers, but spent years struggling with depression, guilt, and ptsd. A year ago he committed suicide. My heart goes out to all those who lost their lives that day, but also to all those whose lives it has claimed since.
I'm so very sorry for the loss of your friend. God bless you.
I was in Washington DC. I had just started my own business handling trade shows. I was helping at a conference for senior citizens. The lady I was working with and I had to get over 1000 attendees home. Luckily my family was back in Baltimore and was lucky enough to have a cellphone (they weren't as common as today.
My brother was in Boston on a business trip, and he was supposed to be on the plane that crashed in the field. The meeting went long, and he was supposed to catch a later flight. We didn't know that, and couldn't get through to him on the phone. We were terrified for almost a whole day before he was able to contact us. That was a horrible time. I know I had terrible nightmares for years from watching video of those poor people jumping out of those towers, rather than burn. It still brings tears if I think too much about it. A horrible horrible time.
Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” 😘🥰
God bless America
9/11 I had just dropped all my kids off at the school I Drive a School Bus in Texas . We got the call to go on stand-by if we would send kids home . I ran to the school and picked my son up no matter what my child was coming home . We sat at watched together the live news all day . My husband came home from work and he never does that in 25 years he’s only taken off work maybe ten days and this was one of them .
More than 3000 children lost a parent on 9/11, I think of them often…343 firefighters died…heartbreaking.
You are wise beyond your years. This was very well done and very respectful as well.
I was repairing a flat tractor tire that morning at work. I had just turned 21 a couple months earlier. I know I grew up alot between waking up that morning, and going to bed that night. Alot of us young guys were seriously thinking it was a chance the military draft would be reinstated, and that we might have to go fight these evil murderers. We were scared, but we would have done it in a heartbeat! This country was a different place than it is now. We were all united by this. We became a team, in a way I cant imagine ever happening again. The world completely changed that day. We lost ALOT of our freedoms that day.
I missed this first time around. Thank you, Daniel, for re-posting this.
i watched the towers being built traveling from ct to nj to visit family when i was a child. the nyc skyline still looks empty and my heart feels that emptiness every time i look at it now.
I was in 3rd grade, didn’t really comprehend the severity of it at the time…but it was the first time I saw fear in my parents eyes. My dads words verbatim “pilots don’t hit buildings they can see” Dad was a combat controller and mom just got out of the Air Force as an air traffic controller so they both knew he was going to war but was mom gonna be recalled (sorry if that’s the wrong term)
I can’t imagine the emotions they felt in that tiny living room.
6th grade English class. Talk a test. The teacher came in and locked the door and said the school was on lockdown. 2 hours later we were sent home early. My mom met me and old sister(who was in high school) at the bus stop and we walked home and watched Disney movies.
I cry every time I hear this song, and I'm so glad you reacted to it. Thank you for such a beautiful reaction. I could tell that it hit deep into your soul. I was on my way to work and did not know about the attacks until I got there and someone had brought a tv to watch. I was 51 then, and at 70, there are three things that I cannot read/watch without tears....Normandy, Pearl Harbor, and September 11, 2001.
Thank you for honoring those lost by scrolling their names. When 9-11 happened, I was home taking care of my young daughter. Her dad called me and told me to turn on the news. It took me a while to comprehend what was happening. It left me feeling quite unsettled for weeks. I would like to encourage you to listen to a beautiful song written by Mary Chapin Carpenter after she heard the experience of a man who worked in the hours after 9-11 looking for survivors amidst the rubble. He talked about bearing the weight of those lives lost, which I think you will connect with. It was such a powerful experience and is such a beautiful, powerful song. It's called "Grand Central Station". Please give it a listen, and find out the story behind it.
I remember every sec of that day.. saw it all from the first plane on
I was at work and people kept getting texts and phone calls from their families telling them what happened. I got home...turned on CNN and spent the rest of the night staring at the TV in total shock. We had a few Americans working at our plant in Canada and because everything shut down they couldn't go home. I didn't know what to say to them... I just offered a hug if they wanted one. It was a very sad day.
Being only 7 at the time I don’t remember much, but I do remember watching tv when the 86th floor call was aired. I do remember the sadness and frenzy after that day more. I’m shocked sometimes by the attitude of some of the younger generation when events like this are brought up. I’ve watched many documentaries about this too, and they average 3000+ people were killed but only 300 bodies were found in the rubble.
Yes, I stayed to the end. And it was a very fitting and heartfelt tribute."It is not up to us to change everybody else. It is up to us to change ourselves".- Daniel.
My mom was getting her first managram. She was done and entered her car when the first plane collided. Later, she was working at her place when her boss ordered everyone home. She worked in Buffalo, you see, and the building was very tall. They weren’t taking any chances. I wasn’t born yet.
I was stationed at Ft. Belvoir Virginia ...3 hours later at the pentagon ... two weeks before I even saw video. I grew up in a town called Pearl River New York heavily populated with NYPD/FD my father said there were funerals weekly for months.
This has to be the best reaction to where were you when the world stopped turning. Going through at the end showing the names of all that were killed on 9/11. I remember where I was. I was at my parents house cause I was pregnant with my first child and my husband worked at an amusement park then so he worked late and we thought it was best incase I went into labor while he was at work . By the way . Hi I just found your channel do to this reaction.
I was 12 when it happened and at home not feeling too well. Mom had gone to the library which was in walking distance. Then my grandmother called asking for mom. When I asked what was wrong she told me to turn on the news. I remember watching and being so scared that even though I didn't feel good I wound up walking to the library to tell mom and my librarian about what was happening. They and several other people were watching on the computers and crying. So was I.
u were better than most reactions ive seen
Let's not forget those first responders who went looking for survivors from that day. We lost so many years later from the cancers they got from all the crap that they breathed in while digging in the debris. And those that are still suffering.
I was retired. I had a hair appointment and was dressing. So I did not have my T V on. When I got in my car, the news was on, and I was stunned. At the beauty shop, they had the TV on and I saw the pictures for the first time.
I was sitting at my local VA waiting on an Appointment watching it on TV with a room full of other veterans, all our jaws on the floor, we all knew we were under attack, and none of us were in a position to help, and man that is the most helpless feeling in the World!
First of all thank you for your service also I’m sorry you were treated so poorly by the VA when you came home
Tim, your comment broke my heart. Thank you for your service and God bless you.
I liked how the song addresses this from the viewpoint of the average American when they saw what happened. Most of us can identify with those feelings. The pain, horror, and heartbreak of that day, will be imprinted on our souls forever. And it should.
For me it was very surreal! . At first ,I thought it was a regular fire but, then When I found out the real reason, it was an eye opener for me.😥❤
I was working with tears running down my face....
Yes it home with me I am a 9/11 survivor I was in the south tower the plane hit 10 floors above me and I got out of the south tower just as it started to fall I was buried for 10 hours and i almost died from loss of blood and crush skull among other injuries and burns. I lost alot of friends including my best friend I will never forget
I was working at SUNY Potsdam cleaning the dorms....
You are right on man
I was sitting in my recliner recuperating from foot surgery . My daughter in law called me and screamed turn on the TV. I turned it on and it was terrifieing. I. saw both planes when they hit the towers. I saw people jumping out of the windows. It was beyond horrible. There were children in the buildings in the daycare center.
Darling Daniel,
On 9/11 I was up early so I could watch the Kinsey Sicks on the CBS morning show. I am a big fan I turned on my bedroom TV after the first plane but before the second. I sat, stunned, in my bed and begged my husband, Greig, not to get on the bus and go downtown in Dallas. He worked hit in a skyscraper called Thanksgiving Tower. It seemed to me that, with that name, it would be a likely target for terrorists. He wouldn’t sit down and pay attention! Tears were streaming down my face when he left. Then, the second plane hit, and I screamed. My imagination supplied the details. The people in the second tower were watching through the windows as the horror unfolded, as the plane quickly grew closer, bigger and bigger, until the impact. I was imagining all kinds of horrific things. It dawned on me after awhile that all of the dust was partially the ashes of the people that had been blown out of the buildings, covering the people on the street below. Horror after horror just kept happening. My brother, Scott, called, and we agreed that we wanted my husband home, so my brother braved impossible traffic to go get him. I remember the thick dust all over George Stephanopolis of ABC News. I remember all the women’s shoes discarded on the streets so their owners could run. I remember the body of the NYFD chaplain-priest carried so carefully from the rubble. I I remember , years later, Peter Jennings of ABC News saying that he went back to smoking that day, and it killed him. I wonder how many people died that way. I remember the plane crash in Pennsylvania, where the passengers sacrificed themselves and attacked the hijackers, preventing them from hitting their target - likely the White House. I remember when the last plane hit the Pentagon.
Daniel. That day was one unimaginable horror after another, and nobody knew what was next, or where. The thing to do was to cling to those I love, and cry all over my dog, Angel.
Daniel, the human race clings to love and to life even more after crisis - look up increases in birth rates nine months after disasters. Praise God! And, God bless you, precious young man!
Love, Leanna in Oklahoma
I was driving to work on the freeway when I heard it on the car radio (1 st tower). After I got to the office, a TV was on and Tower 2 was just hit. Immediately everyone in the country knew it was an attack. I think the total loss of life was 3000.
Just discovered you today, so I'm obviously late on this. I remember exactly where I was on that day. I was in high school, in the 10th grade. I'd woken up and walked to school, and when I got to my first class, the TV was on. I think by that time, the second tower might have been hit, and shortly thereafter, the President came on. My first feelings, of course, were shock. Like, there's no way this can be real. But it obviously was. Then later, my feelings shifted from shock, to anger, and wanting payback. Well, I was a hot-headed teenager back then... Anyway, later on that day, my family and I went to go see my grandma...it was her 80th birthday. The feeling was still surreal, even for her, I imagine. Even though we went there for her, most of the other family members who were there, watched the news, and gathered what information they could. Of course, this was back in the days when the Internet was really just starting to take off, so the news was our primary source of information. There were plenty of websites around, sure, but things like video sites, etc., weren't really a thing yet, and especially not livestreaming (which didn't yet exist). You had the odd clip now and then, but those were rare. I believe I still have copies somewhere of some old clips that were passed around on some old peer-to-peer networks. Anyway... I really appreciate your analysis of the song, and taking the time to pay your respects to the victims. Seems like paying respects to the dead is something that our culture is slowly losing, amongst many other good things. God bless you, young man.
911 was on Tuesday, but by Friday night benefit concert on tv for the victims, he had written this song...
I was just getting off work from the night shift when the first plane hit. I went and picked my son up early from school worried about what was coming next. Went home horrified watching that day unfold on TV.
Was at work and heard it on the Radio
I was in 6th grade. We had been standardized testing all morning, and had just gotten back from music class. Our teacher tactfully told us, and turned on the news. Someone in our class had just gotten back from the WTC and New York with his family the week before. Pray for the ones who don’t know. Many families were in a state of constant grief and stress, not knowing if they would ever see their loved ones again. It was weeks upon weeks before they knew 100% sure. Will never forget that day. Many first responders lost their lives too, not just the ones on the planes or in the buildings, the ones that ran headfirst into danger to try and help their fellow neighbors, and were in the buildings helping when they went down.
Thank you for the reaction/review. It's nice to see a young person who cares and is respectful. Your parents did a good job. ;-)
I was in 10th grade history class- we had just started a chapter on world religion. Absolute panic hit. Parents came running to the school to sign kids out. I came home and found my WW2 Vet Grandfather crying and shaking with anger. That’s was my day.
I worked At Virginia Hospital center were we were getting people from the pentongon. That day everyone worked in the hospital together no matter what job you were doing. I worked in the X-ray department and I took people to on test or anther by pushing people on stretchers. I worked there twenty-three years and that was the first time that I have seen things that bad. I still to this day have dreams about that day. I don't work anymore because I have a pacemaker in now. No matter how long you never forget.
I was at work when the boss walked up to me and said , you wont believe what just happened ! the next couple of weeks were really odd , not a plane in the sky ! and for a while the nation did something it has`nt done since ! forgotten their differences and pulled together !
I was at home getting ready for work and actually worked at an army base. I couldn't believe what I was seeing on tv.
I will never forget seeing people on floors above where the first plane hit jumping out the window to escape the flames.
Daniel, I was 17 when 9/11 happened. I watched the towers fall in real-time via a newscast on a classroom television. I was also in high school two years earlier when the Columbine massacre occurred. When you say, "Let's just stop the taking of human life, please," it cuts deep. Even in my own lifetime--even in yours--there's been so much needless death. We so carelessly devalue each other, so often fail to see the Image of God in the face of our neighbors, so quickly let hurt turn to anger and violence instead of grace and forgiveness. It robs us of each other, it robs us of ourselves, and it is heartbreaking. Keep listening to the music, Daniel. Keep digging deep into the meaning of each incredible piece of art. Keep seeking out the goodness, truth, and beauty that, by providence, still exists in the world, even amidst the brokenness.
Working at a nursing home 21 walked into my apartment so tired turned my TV on well know the rest 😫😫😫😫😫😫
I was doing eye exams and my husband was working in Florida. I was in a panic. The entire city of Atlanta was shut down. No cell phone available and we had no idea what would happen next. I prayed and thought that this might be the end. Thank you Jesus that my family was safe.
You should do some more Alan Jackson songs. He is really good.
I know this is a couple of years old, but I just wanted to tell you, I hope you get the chance, if you haven’t already, to watch the videos “The Great Boat Lift of 9/11” and The Hero Dogs of 9/11. Thanks for your heartfelt reaction. I always cry when I hear this song. It brings back haunting memories of the chirping sounds coming from the alarms on the gear of the fallen firefighters. And the horrible sounds of people hitting the streets when they jumped to their deaths. I was sitting in my home office watching g the news when they broke in with the news of the planes hitting the towers. I called some friends at work and told them. I even took them a spare tv so they could watch what was going on. Such a horrific day/s.
I was sitting on my couch watching tv. My partner was in the shower. It was horrifying. The first one you thought maybe it was an accident. Then you learned of the other attacks. I will never never never forget that day.
I did not find out about the attacks until about 9 hours afte, due to being asleep from working 3rd shift. When I got to my bowling league that evening I mentioned the movie on TV looked realistic and then I was told of what happened.
Alan Jackson is a valuable comity for any genre of music. A wonderful writer and great singer. He’s one that always unites us in times of trouble. This song meant so much to so many during this time. He was able to say what we were all feeling in this horrific situation.
I CAN'T FATHOM LOSING YOUR LOVED ONES IN A CATASTROPHIC SITUATION LIKE THIS. I LOST MY BEAUTIFUL MOTHER NOT TOO LONG AGO. AND, MY WORLD TURNED OUSIDE DOWN. PART OF ME LEFT WITH HER! .. I UNDERSTAND AND, EMPATHIZE WITH DEATH. IT'S EXTREMELY PAINFUL!.
Thank you, Daniel, for looking at this song. I was on my way to work here in Washington State. I heard it on the radio. When I paid for gas and saw the tv in the store, I was shocked. The second tower had just been hit. At work, we had the radio playing in the warehouse and the tv on in the break room. When we took our lunch, the towers fell. We continued the day. I went home, sat on the sofa and watched the news. I wept. I sobbed. All I could think about were all those lives. I wasn't listening to the conjecture. I wasn't thinking about wanting to destroy muslims. I was completely fearful for my country, and saddened at the immense loss of life. When the story of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania became known, I wept more. They showed video of the people jumping from the windows... they were the most horrific scenes of the day. I was a zombie for an entire week. Weeping for no reason throughout the days.
I remember those people that decided to jump out of windows rather than die from the fire. It was heartbreaking. The next day this country was united like nothing I've ever seen. We should be like that all the time.
I had just finished a long night shift as a Senior Ramp Controller for a major cargo airline. I had been in bed for about45 minutes when my wife burst into our bedroom, turned on the TV, and woke me up. We sat together watching the north tower burning. I couldn't believe that an aircraft, especially a passenger airliner would accidentally hit that building. My fear was confirmed when just after 9:00am the second aircraft hit the south tower. Then the Pentagon was hit by another aircraft. it led me to get in shape and back in the uniform I hadn't worn for 18 years.
I was home getting my kids ready for school.
I lived in New Jersey and had a project that took me to San Francisco at least once a month for two years. I always took United flight 93 cause it left Newark Airport at 8AM and got into SF at 11AM Pacific time...giving me almost a full day before meetings began....to this day, 19 years later, I wonder if I would have had the guts to try and retake the plane with the other passengers...how would I have felt as the plane went down in that field in Pennsylvania?? It was a great flight because it was usually a jumbo jet that had few passengers and a big crew to take care of you.....I still have nightmares about what happened to that flight....and how I could have been on it....