“Where were you?” Remembering September 11, 2001, 20 years later . . .

A fireball rises in the immediate aftermath of United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the South Tower during the September 11 attacks. —public domain photo

by Karin L. Nauber

karin@inhnews.com

Most of us—if we were alive then—remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when the news of a massive terrorist attack on the United States took place in the early hours of the morning.

I was sitting on my friend's couch drinking coffee with her and her husband and watching Good Morning America.

A “good morning” it was not.

We didn’t see the first plane hit one of the Twin Towers in New York City.

But we did see the second plane crash into the second tower. I can still hear my friend say, “That was not an accident. That was on purpose.”

And indeed, it was on purpose. . .

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