Alan Jackson - Where Were You (Reaction!) 

My uncle plays bass guitar for Alan Jackson. His name is Roger Wills. He used to play for Reba McIntire. Love Alan, he is such a great singer/song writer.

What I remember most about this day is my four year old son telling me "When I get big, I'm going to stop the bad guys from killing people." He ended up joining the Navy where, in conjunction with the Coast Guard, they intercepted a boat of drugs and humans being trafficked. The traffickers set the boat on fire in order to destroy the "evidence." He boarded the burning boat and went below deck to free the people who were trapped. I got to tell him "You did it, baby boy. You stopped the bad guys from killing people." Proud mom moment right there.

This is a song about a day nobody will ever forget. I just wish our country was at as united as it was then.

On this day 2:30 am I gave birth by c-section and had just come out of recovery, I was very sad that this would be what everyone would remember every time he gave his birth date. My son is now a firefighter and was inspired by the great people that fought valiantly to save others. God bless you and your family

I was 22 at the time, working the easiest job in the world as a country radio dj. We spent all day covering the tragedies from NY, DC, and PA. I joined the USAF in October and was in basic training by January because I wanted to do my part in making sure another 9/11 didn’t happen again. I spent the next 16 years deploying until multiple back surgeries forced me to be medically retired from active duty.

Absolutely right. "It didnt matter who we were anymore." Details don't factor into grief, anger, shock, which we all shared.

NEVER FORGET!!! I was driving through the security gate of the hospital where I was going to finish my internship in Radiology. I wished I were done so I could have gone and helped. I wept like a child. How could this happen on our soil? It showed me that even in America we can’t be assured of our safety. It reminded me to be thankful. Most of all it proved what I prayed was true… that at the end of the day, in spite of our differences, we are Americans and will stand side by side and fight for our country! Land of the free and home of the brave! In In GOD on which we stand!

Alan Jackson IS country music. His voice is so amazing and clear and everything he writes is true to the genre and so human. He is an absolute national treasure.

The CMA Version - His first performance of the song hit us all. He gave this performance from the heart. I was in Idaho. Got in the car to take kids to school. turned on local Spokane, WA fun morning show - only to hear serious news. Got home to see the towers collapse - it was right then - I knew we were at war - we will never forget. Alan Jackson gave us hope.

What I love most about this song is that there’s no finger pointing trying to place blame. It’s about your friends, family and neighbors and loving all the people that are in your life because you never know when it’s your time.

I really miss who we were as a country. We were one, we were all just americans. No black or white, gay or straight, rich or poor, republican or democrat. I really believe we would be so much better if we could get back to that.

THIS PERFORMANCE ON THAT NIGHT HAS MADE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CRY DEEPLY OVER THE YEARS.

I was living in Hawaii as my husband was in the Navy. I had just woke up to nurse our 2 week old son. I turned on the TV and the first tower had just been hit. I sat there crying wondering what kind of world I had just brought my son into. My husband was deployed shortly after, my father who was in the Air Force at the time was waiting on the word but luckily never had to be deployed. 22 years later that same 2 week old baby boy is now overseas serving his country in the US Army. This song make me cry everytime. Great reaction.

I called my husband and told him to turn on the news. Then I got a call from my brother Fire Chief John Ellis, who said to pray for him - he took all his vacation time and he was flying in to NYC from California to help with recovery. He spent two weeks there before they sent him home.

I was there! Survivor and first responder. Tower 1 fell on top of my office. No need to have “Never Forget” printed cuz I never will. I remember finally making it to my mother full of dust, ash, soot and she dropped to her knees hysterically crying cuz there was no way to let her know I was alive until then. I must’ve hugged my son and mother for an hour str8. I don’t have PTSD or anything but I haven’t been to the site ever since recovering the last remains we were able. Absolutely beautiful song!!! All Americans should listen to Where Were U and Red, White & Blue every year.

Those first days! I did not cry!! I was not angry for several days! But! When this happenend on Live TV not long after...I SOBBED! And have loved this song since! And EVERYRTHING he sings of is all of us!

I long for the day that we, as Americans, can be like we were on 9/12. Love was everywhere. We didn't care about politics. We didn't care about philosophies. We didn't care about differences. We didn't care about ethnicities. We loved our families. We loved our neighbors. We loved our country. I want us to love like that again.

I was just getting off of work as a Correctional Officer in a state prison, was checking my mail and my neighbor asked me "Have you been watching the news?" I ran in just in time to see the 2nd tower hit and instantly knew this was a planned attack. I remember, vividly, the cold feeling of death as I continued to watch and saw the towers fall. God have mercy on America, we've drifted so very far from you and your Word. 2 Chronicles 7:14

What a beautiful mom you have, to teach her children to pray for strangers. Amazing reaction

I was working and a client came in, sat down at my desk with tears in his eyes. I asked him what was bothering him, and he said the planes and the buildings, the fires, the people. I had no idea what he was talking about because I hadn't heard any of it, thought maybe he was just joking. A minute later my husband called me to tell me what was happening. I sat in stunned silence and then started crying. Then anger at the ones who decided that we were the evil ones that needed to be destroyed. A day that no one should ever forget!

I still can't listen to this without tearing up. For whatever reason, the "I Love Lucy Reruns" line is when I get really choked up. I think because it's then that I realize that the simple things of yester-year ended on that day.

My mom was getting ready to through chemo treatment that morning. I was at her house. When the first plane hit, she looked at me and said :we are under attack". I thought, no, it had to an accident. My dad took her to chemo and I couldn't move. I stayed there watching as she was right. I cried and cried. When she got home 3 hours later she sat down and looked me in the eyes and told me that with faith we know this life is short and heaven is forever, remember that. She died a few months later. I'll see her again.

This is about one of the worst days In my life. It's the Pearl Harbor of my generation. Still today I have tears listening to this

I honestly think this simple song is one of the most beautiful written. Faith hope and love…

I remember exactly where I was . I was at home asleep and my fiancé was sent home from work and she woke me up crying. It took me a minute to understand her but when she turned on the tv and I seen the news I just froze. I didn't blink, breathe, or move for a good minute or so. Then it hit me what was actually happening. As I watched the second plane hit I cried harder then I ever did in my 27 years. One thing I remember the most is the kindness everyone showed each other afterwards. Everyone held the door for the next person, smiled and waved to the people they passed in the store, and were just plain nice to each other. Sadly it didn't last and it shames me that not only did it take something like September 11 to bring this out in people and that it didn't last long. Well I took it upon myself to keep to doing these things for my neighbors and complete strangers. Maybe if enough of us would we could bring it back without a major tragedy.

9/11/01 I was just waking up, watching National morning news waiting for my 2 year old daughter to wake up. When the first images started coming through and we kinda knew what had just happened, and then the second plane hit…I ran and got my baby out of bed and held her tight. Called my mom and sisters, and we all just could not believe what we just saw. We cried, prayed and then honestly got angry. Those are images I don’t think any of us will ever forget.

Dear See, How good, sweet and reassuring it is to hear that you prayed for our country that night. It is hard to believe, to me, that someone in another country prayed for the USA. It seems as though the news only covers and shows people hating America. Never imagined I would hear this. thank you and God Bless your family. You were raised well.

I was teaching my 5th grade Social Studies class when a co-worker knocked on my door to quietly let me know what had happened. It was hard for me to keep it together for my babies. I didn't think it was my place to tell them what happened. After work, I cried all the way home for those who were present in New York that day and for the whole world and humanity. I'm tearing up just thinking about that moment when there was a knock on my door that changed our lives forever.

Every line of this song hits hard, and bring back clear memories...I remember seeing a kid holding a sign saying "please find my daddy", and I had a meltdown crying.

I was 20 years old in Special Forces Assessment and Selection course in the Army. My first day of the course was 9/11. They told us what happened at 7pm that day in the auditorium. We were training to be special forces so we all thought it was a training scenario until the next morning going through the chow trailer where there was a little tv with CNN playing. When people finally realized it was real after breakfast over 100 candidates dropped out of the course expecting to deploy with their units. I made it a couple weeks until i tore my hip flexor muscle and had to fly back to Georgia in a plane literally by myself, zero other passengers, just attendants and pilots.

I remember not too long after this song came out, Alan Jackson won an award for this song and he said, “God wrote the song and I just held the pen.”

I'll never forget this day as long as I live, nor how it made me feel. Prayers to all the families.

I had 2 kids and a husband in the USMC. I got up, got them up to get ready for school. and hopped on my email really quick. A friend messaged me and said turn on the news. I immediately started crying and called my husband to ask if we were at war. He ended up going to Iraq for 7 months. The worst 7 months of my life but I supported every service man and women who went. It was a time I’ll never forget. I hugged strangers on the street. Held hands at a grocery store and prayed. It didn’t matter our color, sex, religion or the way we voted…we were all just Americans.

Where was I? I was pulling into work , when my called me. The CFO from the company I worked for was on American Airline Flight 11. He was a good man like so many others who passed that day. We need to never forget or let hate take us over. Be safe

I'll never forget 9-11 and I remember watching this performance. When he sings "did you stand in line and give your own blood?" I still feel it in my gut. This song brings me to tears every single time.

I was working the graveyard shift at a small community bakery in a small town. I was also new to recovery and 6 months sober at the time. I’d just gotten off work and made it home when the news came on the TV. I was horror struck and couldn’t believe my eyes. I’ll never forget how gut wrenching it was to see those people way up in the towers who knew there was no hope left and were jumping. My heart still hurts for them all these years later. I was thankful for my small community, and how everyone came together. I didn’t drink over it, even if it was the best excuse. Instead, I wept and I loved.

I'd just gotten home, after a 12 hour shift in burn-trauma ICU in Rochester, NY. I called Mom to let her know I was home 0k. She called back, telling me one of the Twin Towers had been struck. We hung up, and I turned on the news. Then the other tower was hit, both now burning. I called work, they hadn't heard about it yet. Afraid we'd get burn patients, I put myself as available to come in that night, if needed. Then, the Towers collapsed. I can't describe how it felt. It still makes me sick in the heart ❤.

I was stationed in Germany. We we were getting ready to change a rear diff seal on a contact truck. A call came calling for QRF (quick reaction force) to draw weapons and guard the gates. Vehicles with mounted weapons were moved to guard the installation. We were placed on lockdown for close to 24 hours. My daughter was 6 months old with her German nanny, she called and said she would take care of and protect my baby girl. I didn’t see her for 3 days. As a soldier you know there is always the chance of going to battle, but that day we knew we were going to war.

I will never forget this. I was in 7th grade and I was in math class. The teacher Mrs. Bruno ran in and turned the TV on. This was right after the first plane hit. I watched live, the second plane hit. The emotions I felt, it is indescribable. I realized how vulnerable we could be and It was the first time I realized what terrorism was. But to watch our country unite was also powerful. Later Toby Keith did a song called courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue. Look it up. That's when we were angry as a country.

I was the mother of eight children and it was the start of our day (we homeschooled) the kids watched with mixed emotions as at first I just said o no over and over and then fell to my knees and plead to Jesus for the people of new York. I cried all day without end. That evening we stood around 2 candles and prayed long and hard for grace and courage and strength for our country but especially for NYC. (WE'RE from Texas)

Alan Jackson is a country legend

I was holding my now 22 year old son at 4 months old, with tears rolling down my face in disbelief wondering what kind of world did I bring my son into!? God Bless each and every one!!

I was a 48 year old college student and my son was a member of Presidential Security in the Marine Corps at Camp David! I never want to feel that kind of fear again as long as I live! Love Alan Jackson and saw him in concert long before he wrote this song. My daughter and I went down to the stage to get better pictures. He reached down to shake her hand and I had a hand on his boot! I looked at her and said, "One good yank and he's ours!" LOL He's one of the greats!!!

Sebs...eventually you will have to fully face it 100%...you cannot get any better music for music, emotion, lyrics and a good story that paints a picture in your mind and hits you in your soul. ;)

I was in the 8th grade, waiting for school to start when we learned about the attack. I remember my step-dad coming and picking up my brother and I from school and then watching the TV for hours in shock and awe. The greatest and my favorite memory of 9/11 was how our nation felt and reacted on 9/12. Our nation was as unified and as patriotic as I’ve ever known it to be and I can only hope we can experience that feeling again in the future.

I was 46 at the time. I remember the events in sharp detail. I remember we were so afraid of what else was coming. You have to remember that on that day, we didn’t know when it would stop. I have found that people who watched it all happen find some comfort in sharing our personal experience. We found a passion for our country I wish we still had today. I hope it doesn’t take another tragedy to get there again.

Absolutely love Alan Jackson!! He is a legend in my eyes. I was on my way to work listening to the radio. At first I thought it was probably some stupid prank until the details slowly unfolded. We had aTV in our break room for training purposes. We had it on all day and barely got any work done. One of my employees Annie had a brother who worked at the Pentagon. And she was frantically trying to find out what happened to him. We tried our best to give her support and we all rejoiced with her when she finally was able to confirm he got out ok. Looking forward to your Remember When reaction. It's a beautiful love song.

I was recovering from a broken back, and I turned on the TV after the first tower hit. I told my boyfriend, by the time I made it back to the TV the second tower had been hit. I told him I think we are under attack. He was getting ready to leave for work and the towers fell. We both stood there with tears rolling down our faces. At the time we had no facts and we lived in a big city and he made promise to stay home because we had no idea if there were going to be more attacks, or where. It is such a powerful song! Thanks for the awesome reaction!

Brought me to tears when you said you were in 6th grade and your mom got you up in the middle of the night to pray. That’s so beautiful. I was also in 6th grade when it happened, actually in class. It was a small, private Christian school so there weren’t many students. I remember the teachers crying, gathering all the students together in two small classrooms, wheeling in the old box tvs, and we all watched the news coverage in silence other than the crying and quiet prayers. School dismissed early. Mom was crying when she picked us up.

I was 20 years old, at Elmendorf Air Force Base fresh out of training

I've been to the museum too. And I would say that even though humans are capable of great destruction, we also are capable of greater love towards our fellow man

I was “teaching a classroom of innocent children” and my Marine husband came to my classroom door and told me how bad this was… I knew our lives were going to change.

Alan Jackson is amazing! He was my first concert in the 90's. I found out later he had the flu but still performed because he didn't want to let his fans down. Faith Hill opened for him

I joined the military in 2000, I will NEVER forget that morning. the hurt, fear, uncertainty. Man I had just got off shift and fallen asleep when my buddy came and pretty much jerked me outta bed to show me what was going on and the way it affected my life from that day forward.

My ex husband son and I were on leave visiting family between duty stations on 9/11 ... I remember how terrified I was trying to explain it to my 4yr old while his dad was contacting his next duty command to find out what he had to do... this is an amazing song and will always bring tears to my eyes...

I was working at the hospital in surgery post recovery and a fellow employee came in to tell us that the World Trade Center was hit by a plane. My thoughts went to my son in the military, knowing this meant war. Heartbroken for the loss of innocent lives and fear for what was to come...

This is a beautiful song and brings chills every time I hear it. I love this song and it's meaning. I pray every day for all 9-11 victims, their families, the NY firefighters and all first responders. 🙏 Thank you so much for putting your life on the line to save your fellow human. You'll never be forgotten!

I am NOT an Alan Jackson fan BUT this song ROCKS!!!!! I was working for the Continental Airlines @ IAH in Houston when 9/11 went down & it hurt!!! we were all crying at work & for the next weeks!!! Airport shut down for 4 days - scary & when they opened it up - there was National Guard with guns patrolling the airport - America changed that day!!!

20 something years later and this song still chokes me up. I can remember so vividly getting home from working a 12 night shift and my wife heading out the door to go to work and being gone maybe 5 mins before busting in the door telling me to turn on the news because a plane just crashed into the tower. I turned it on just before the second plane hit... I remember being so confused then as reality hit fear and anger set in as I realized this was no accident.. I was up for hours trying to make sense of it all.

I just found you here. I love watching your reactions to videos. So very heartfelt!!!

This song was pretty much instantly placed into the national archives, because it captured the time in American history so perfectly. I was working in a warehouse in the midwest, unloading a truck, when that first plane hit the first tower. One of my co workers ran in and yelled "We've Just Been Bombed"!!! The rest of us were like "What"?!?, then she slowed down, and explained it was on TV in the break room as she was leaving, all she knew was that the WTC was burning in New York. A short time later, I was on break, watching on TV when the second tower was hit, and it became clear that it was no accident... Nothing to do but wait it out, and hope the worst was over, and go from there... Don't forget to check out the guy who introduced Alan to the stage as well. His name is Vince Gill. I recommend "Go Rest High On That Mountain... Or if you want a different style from Vince... Try "It's Hard To Kiss The Lips..."

Hard to believe it's been that long ago. I was just 24, driving a semi out of Greensboro NC headed to Charlottesville, VA to deliver to a Kmart store. Like Alan Jackson mentioned in the song, I did call my mother and tell her I loved her. God bless all the families of those who died that September day. I'll never forget it.

Alan Jackson is a living legend of country music. So loved by millions. This is a beautiful song.

I was in bed... my husband woke me up to tell me a private plane flew into the WTC, then he went to work. I got up & went to the TV he had left on for me. I saw the second plane hit. Morning coffee/cigarette weren't even thought about as I realized it wasn't a private plane but a terrorist attack!! For a long time after that, any overhead airline was looked at with suspicion. Thank you Mr. Jackson for this beautiful song, no matter how heartbreaking the memory of 9/11 may be.😭😭😭

Jackson had finished walking outside and returned indoors to discover news of the attacks on television. He immediately wanted to write a song expressing his thoughts and emotions, but he found it hard to do so for many weeks. "I didn't want to write a patriotic song," Jackson said. "And I didn't want it to be vengeful, either. But I didn't want to forget about how I felt and how I knew other people felt that day."[2] Finally, on the Sunday morning of October 28, 2001, he awoke at 4 a.m. with the melody, opening lines, and chorus going through his mind. He hastily got out of bed, still in his underwear, and sang them into a hand-held digital recorder so as to remember them later on.[2][3][4] Later that morning, when his wife and children had gone to Sunday school, he sat down in his study and completed the lyrics.[2][5] Initially, he felt squeamish about recording it, much less releasing it as a single, because he disliked the idea of capitalizing on a tragedy.[6] But after he played it for his wife Denise and for his producer, Keith Stegall, both of whom gave their approval, Jackson went into the studio to record "Where Were You" that week.[7] On Stegall's advice, Jackson played the finished track for a group of executives at his record label. "We just kind of looked at one another," RCA Label Group chairman Joe Galante said later. "Nobody spoke for a full minute."

I was with my mother in law watching it unfold, trying get in touch with her Daughter and Sister..they worked in tower two...By grace of God, my sister in law had conference at my nephew's school and Aunt Debbie was trying get grandma Mommy take meds..Both frustrated and LATE for work...We were blessed but for few hours we knew what New York City was going through down North Carolina

A beautiful man and a beautiful song. It took me 6 years to get over the tragedy. My husband woke me up early that morning and told me I needed to get up. There was something in his voice and a look on his face. None of us ever thought the towers would fall. The victims' families were devastated. I can still see the look in their eyes and the missing posters they put up for their loved ones who would never come home. These first responders who climbed up the stairs when everyone else was coming down. Never again I pray.

i simply cry my eyes out whenever i hear this song and i hear this song often and it never leaves my heart

I was 41 years old at the time and at work in my office. We were all listening to the radio and stopped what we were doing and gathered in the reception area in shock after the first plane hit. I felt sick listening to the live coverage and went home to get in front of the TV. For days I watched hoping that people would be found alive but finally had to force myself to turn it off. It was so traumatizing. I will never forget that day.

This man is an icon! Listen to his music carefully.

I remember that day as if it were yesterday, but I also remember this performance…it was breathtaking…feelings were so raw and it was like a soothing balm applied to a wound. So you were right in saying that it had an optimistic feeling to it. A little side fact…they almost didn’t let him sing it, as no one had heard it! The producers were reluctant to air a song that they hadn’t heard or approved…thank goodness more rational minds prevailed!!!

I’m an Aussie and was 30 at the time. I was sitting in my lounge room breast feeding my new born daughter watching the news in complete and utter disbelief and incredible sadness. I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. After it happened I decided that I would go to America every year and I have done exactly that. Many of my American friends don’t want to talk about it and I can’t really blame them. It was one of if not the darkest day in American history. 😢

A year after the attacks, three of my children and I drove out East for vacation. Three special places we saw were to the sites of the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA where United flight 93 crashed into a field. My heart was so torn by these sites and the tears seemed endless. Some day, I would like to go back and visit the memorials that have been erected. There is a beautiful, but small memorial at Scott Air Force Base that I have seen several times. It's in the shape of the Pentagon, there's pieces from the wreckage, and dirt/small gravel type stones, which if I remember correctly, is for the field in PA. September 11, 2001....a day that my family, and hundreds of other people, will never forget.

What a wonderful response by your mom & family. If that was all our response to trouble & tragedy today we would not have the depth of troubles we have today.

I was teaching in our local middle school. In the middle of a science lesson when a fellow teacher came and told me what was going on. The whole school watched the scene on TV. Kids( mine were 8th graders) we're shocked, then scared, then super angry. Many of them, both genders, joined up as soon as they were old enough. Yes, several years later but they never forgot. THE defining moment in their young lives

I remember watching the awards with my parents that night and the 3 of us just sat in silence and cried. These were the words we all felt.

Well now it’s just fitting that he has to do “courtesy of the red, white, and blue” by Tony Keith

I love all your reactions to the videos you have shown. You have a feeling heart and you care. It's genuine and it shows. Thank you, you are a very nice person. Wished there would be more like you living here in America and the whole world included.

When he says he's just a singer of simple songs, couldn't be more true! He wrote almost all of his songs! He wrote about his life experiences and what he knew! I love Alan Jackson, definitely check out more of his stuff! Midnight in Montgomery is a chilling song

I was in the 9th grade, sitting in math class. A kid ran in from the main building, hollering for us to turn on the TV!!! I can remember my teacher crying and hitting her knees and praying. We all did the same. It was disbelief, grief, confusion, and loss all rolled into one. This day was the quietest day ever in our school. No one knew how to proceed. My mom came and got my sisters and I from school. She took us home and held us and prayed. We were glued to the TV that day, I remember. Seeing the way our country came together for one another was beautiful though. To see the american flag at ground zero was so patriotic. It didn't matter what you looked like, what your political beliefs were, your religion, gender identity or anything. We knew the need and we filled it. We don't do that now and that makes my heart hurt. Just wake up and do right! Be kind to your fellow human beings!

I was a Marine in NC, out in my yard talking with my neighbor when my wife screamed. I was an air traffic controller, so I went straight over to the radar room. It was very eerie to say the least. Today, I'm more fearful of my own government than any enemy we ever faced. Betrayal is the most bitter emotion.

20+ years later and this song still chokes me up. I was asleep when it happened. My wife called me from work and told me to turn on the TV right after the first plane hit. I watched as the second plane hit and just grabbed my uniform and headed to base. My wife and I were both in the Navy. She was stationed with a helo squadron in Norfolk, Virginia and I was stationed at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach. It was a very tense time for us in the military, not knowing if or when we would be deployed, or who would watch our kids when we were, but it's what we signed up for and we did our jobs.

This song is a wonderful example of how country music so perfectly reflects what we all feel. I saw this performance when the CMAs aired, and bawled my eyes out. To this day, it still evokes such emotion. Alan Jackson is an amazing storyteller - you HAVE to listen to Remember When!

I was stationed at Ft. Drum, NY on this day.

I was at home with my mom. My dad was on a work trio. I turned the tv on. I saw the twin towers smoking. I told my mom the twin towers were on fire. She asked what? I think rest of the day we watched news coverage. Dad called us. His work meeting was cancelled. Such a sad and terrible day.

I was 27. Getting ready for work on the west coast, when my roommate yelled at me to come to the tv. We watched live as the second plane hit. I spent a lot of my day praying, and waiting for word on my cousin, who worked in DC, and was often at the pentagon.

I still tear up every single time I hear this song. We are all still the same (humans) and we let "them" put labels on us and worse accept the labels.

This song was put into the National Library of Music in D. C. No one can copy it, it is established written and recorded by Alan Jackson. No one else can touch it .

I was on my way to work when I heard it on the radio. When I got to work, TV’s were roiled out so we could watch. I was horrified at the devastation that was unfolding in front of us. I cried & cried & thinking we will never be the same.😪

🎉A beautufutul song by Alan Jackson Jackie McAdams ❤❤❤❤

I was an international travel agent. With terrified client's trapped all over the world. Like Pearl Harbor, a day that will never be forgotten.

It's insane how much that changed everyone's life here. I was in Kansas in my 8th grade science class watching the events on TV. 3-4 short years later, I was joining the army after the invasion of Iraq. As an adult I don't agree with that war 100% but it set me on a course in life that has turned out for the better.

I was having my second cup of coffee, listening to the morning news and straightening the sofa cushions. I burst into tears and started praying. Then the second plane hit and I dropped my coffee. Hubby called and told me he was coming straight home. He's never done that before or after. To this day it's all embellishing in my mind and will be forever.

I will never forget this day. I was 21. My two brothers and I owned a lawn care business at this time. We were getting ready to leave for the day when the first tower was hit, we made it to our first job when the second tower was hit, by the time we finished that first job the pentagon was hit and we called it a day and went home. I’ll never forget. 🇺🇸

I cry EVERYTIME this song plays……..I recall that day like yesterday

We were so great on September 12th I was working in a government building. My friends' daughter had just left one of the towers. But, my coworker was terrified, because she didn't know if she was gone or not. This song captures the feelings, and answers with Love. Perfection.

I was a member of the Army National Guard, had just woke up, when I saw it happening on the TV. I was in shock, realizing I might get a call any moment. We had just moved our mobile home from Wisconsin to Iowa, the contractor was working on our deck and porch. The days were spent between working on the project and waiting on a call that never came, but, I was ready to answer the call. Salute to all those who lost their lives on 9/11 and went to face the enemy in the desert of Iraq. God, for some reason spared me of Vietnam and the Gulf War, but, my Brother in Arms, many did not come back. R.I.P. Brothers. We will not forget your sacrifice!

one of the reasons this man is a legion in country music this song!! this moment … i truly believe america needed him to write and sing this song for us

Your mother must be an amazing and strong woman of faith to get up her kids in the middle of the night to pray for strangers thousands of miles away. Inspiring.

I was on a roof doing tear off at 1030 my boss told me what happened. Cannot describe the feeling of watching Our USA be attacked on OUR soil. It was sickening. Still is to this day, I still cry.