First Time Hearing Alan Jackson - Where Were You Reaction - DESPAIR, HOPE, AND LOVE ALL IN ONE STORY 

He wrote this song a couple of weeks after 9/11. Americans were still bleeding from their injuries and their emotions. I remember every second of that day

My mom and stepdad were supposed to be in the towers that morning. Due to an argued that they had the night before, they cut their vacation short and started the drive home to Wisconsin. I hated when they argued but that argument literally saved their lives.

He's quoting from the Bible. 1 Corinthians 13:13, in my Revised Standard Version (old), it says "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." Thanks for a great song reaction!

This was, absolutely, a tragedy in Canada just as it was here. Family is family.

Love Alan Jackson music

This song allowed you to feel hurt while realizing you weren't alone. Still tears me up

I was on a medical leave of absence from my job as a United flight attendant. Personally, I lost a lot of peers that day, but two were friends working Flight 93 that went down in PA. I retired shortly after. I wish we could come together as Americans as we did after 9/11. Great reaction. 🙏🏻☮

This song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Putting our differences aside we came together. It was Unity! This world needs unity today! This song is also a reminder that life is too short. Can we all get along. God bless you all!

Was living in North Pole Alaska, Sky was a clear crisp blue, not a single cloud - but not a single plane in the sky and seemed even the birds stopped flying, silence outside. The Fairbanks AK area has many airstrips and aviation of every size and type all day except that day. Outside was so eerily silent, a most bizarre and unreal feeling.

In case no one mentions it, I remember watching this. He got that standing ovation. 21 years later this song still hits me.

I will never forget that morning. I had been in the US Air Force since Feb 2000 and stationed at Travis AFB, CA for 15 months. I was working at one of the entry gates when a patrol came by and told me what happened. Since there was nothing put out over our radio net about it, I kind of brushed it off. When the dispatcher came over the radio and announced we were now in Threatcon (threat condition) Alpha and told me to close my gate, it made me curious. My gate was about 500 yards from the armory. A patrol came and picked me up and before we got to the armory we were in Threatcon Delta, the highest level of security. From that point on we worked 13 hr shift for 2 weeks straight before a day off.

The CMA's are done in October, so he sang this a little over a month after the attacks!!!!!

That day is perfectly seared into my mind. Once I realized it was a terrorist attack, my first call was to my youngest brother who was in the military full time at the time. He said the base was completely closed to visitors and everyone was being called in.

When the 1st plane hit me and my family went outside and held candles and out of nowhere hundreds of people joined us. It felt so wonderful to see strangers come together as one! People were honking their horns. It was a real good feeling!

30 seconds in and I'm already ugly crying. I remember how what happened and this song seemed to unite us as neighbors, as family and as Americans. Why does that never last?

On that day and the days that followed it we all felt and did all of the things he asked us if we had done in the song. I recall myself having such conflicted and conflicting emotions at the time - shouting out in anger and wanting to go out an buy a gun while at the same time recoiling at violence and wanting to just put on old "I Love Lucy" reruns and laugh. This song captured so much of what we felt together as a country in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

The significance 22 years later (today) is just as big as it was then. #wewillneverforget

I was parked in my delivery truck in Moonachie NJ, right across the Hudson from Midtown Manhattan. I watched the towers fall and listened to Scott and Todd on 95.5 WPLJ radio. I can't talk about that day, and the weeks following, without choking up. It was a horrible day that also brought the best in our humanity. Bless the victims and their families. Bless the heroes from New Yorks finest (NYPD) and New Yorks bravest (NYFD). Bless all those who joined together during tragedy to help each other through.

Almost 22 years later it still breaks my heart

I was still running a 9-1-1 call center at that time, and I remember exactly where I was!

I love how he points out that we need to go back to God. We were founded with God but now we've thrown Him away. Just look at your money. IN GOD WE TRUST.

Alan is an OG.he never disappoints with his songs about real life.

I think of Alan as a poet who sets his poems to music. He wrote 2- wonderful songs for his mom and dad. Drive for his dad and for his mom Dancing In The Wind. He wrote them as tributes at the time they passed. Hope you will react to both. They are heartfelt and beautiful.

Alan does it again, that's for sure. If you get the chance, you have to see the video of this song; it's so emotional.

Livin on love is another great song from Alan Jackson. A must listen

This song gets me every time I listen to it. I lost my cousin Barbara Arestigui (Bobbi), who was the firstclass flight attendant on AA flight 11, the first plane to hit the towers. She was a hero, she tried to stop the terrorists from getting into the cockpit. Bobbi I Love you and miss you so much...

Song makes me cry everytime.... I remember...had nightmares after it happened.

Alan Jackson sounds just as good live in concert as he does on an album. I've seen him 19 times in concert over the last 30 years. Never a bad show. Any song you choose by Alan you will enjoy.

Such a great song writer. This song gets me every time ❤ It’s amazing how many things people were actually feeling that he was able to articulate 😊

Definitely a tear jerker... you should also react to the live version of Tim McGraw's "If You're Reading This" when he first performed it on the ACM awards show in 2007... but keep the tissues handy, especially at the end... I have no idea how he OR Alan got through doing these songs live, although you can hear the raw emotion in Alan's voice, and in Tim's as well.

Have to admit my eyes teared up hearing this

He did get a standing ovation. I was so angry when 9/11 happened. But Alan made me realize I needed to focus on other thing that were important. You should listen to Johnny Cash, The man in black. Country music has amazing stories from amazing story tellers

Alan is amazing

Such a great songwriter , great reaction 🇨🇦❤️

Alan Jackson Chattahoochee is a more upbeat fun song 😊

He spoke for how so many of us felt😢ya'll need to watch the video.

Alan also does happy songs. Chattahoochee which was one of his first released. Another great song representing patriotism God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood. Angry American by Toby Keith (official video).

I was on my way to a job interview i thought it was a movie preview at first till i was driving and it was on every radio station my husband at the time worked not far where 93 went down i tried calling and all the cell lines where blocked due to over use i will never forget that day i was 33 and it was something to see i hope yonger generations never have to remember where they where when tragedy strikes this wonderful country if you have not reviewed yet do boatlift it puts you in New York stay safe

I was less then a block from the Tower's heading to meet my father in-law who worked in the north Tower. and watched as the first Jet hit. I will never get the images out of my head

Still tear up at he words to this song.....😢

I was working in west Houston. My daughter was in high school and my son was in junior high. The Deer Park schools went on lockdown. H way 225 is 5 miles from our home. The biggest cimacal and oil plants in the world .this song is deep.

loved loved loved your reaction

I relive the moment I froze in shock, in front of the TV every time I hear this... and I cry real tears.

Wonderful reaction, love the way yall really got into the song, the meaning and paid attention to the artist. My husband was working at the Pentagon that day and the schools locked down, so I sat at my desk praying for the people in NY and those at the Pentagon, cried a lot, pace the floors a lot, thought I was going insane until I heard he was ok and they let me get all the kids. I can only imagine what it was like for those in NY.

This song always makes me cry and my heart still hurts. This was about 9/11 and how we came together as Americans, grieved, loved and prayed and tried to recover.

I listen to this song every year on 9/11 to pay homage to the victims and their families .

Sad that sometimes it takes a huge tragedy for us to remember love is the greatest gift we have to give each other

We all became "NEW YORKERS" that day, me beautiful friends!!!!!!😢

Lordy that song makes me cry every time I hear it.... So powerful!

Back when the CMA's meant something.

I remember when and what I was doing, and this explains it well.

When that day happened, I was on inactive duty for the U.S. Army, having decided not to reenlist after serving for 12. I woke that morning made coffee and sat down and turned the tv on and barley got a sip when I saw the news feeds of what just happened, shocked, stunned and angry (Veteran of the 1st Gulf War) of what I was seeing. I can remember every emotion of that day from sadness thru anger, and even made phone calls to do everything I could to find a way to be placed back on active duty as soon as possible. To no avail I couldn't make it happen but was directed to a support position for family members that were being deployed. Anything I was able to do to help my Brothers and Sisters in all branches of the Military gave me a sense of peace and hope.

Every time I hear this song it reminds me exactly where I was at. When this song comes on that whole day just seems to play in slow motion. It's like still frame pictures in my mind. I can remember every person I talked to and every place I was. This could be the most thought provoking song I ever heard. Thank you for reacting to this.

A wonderful, heartfelt expression of what we all felt the morning of 9/11. I think everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing, just as those of us who were alive back then, remember where we were when we heard that President Kennedy had been shot. Moments that are forever etched in our memory. Regardless of how old we are, we will always remember where we were, when the world stopped turning on that September day. God Bless America. Thank you for sharing.

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The world did stop that day. We will remember exactly where/what we were doing when the news hit the news.

Great reaction guys...A. Jackson is one of the absolute best in this genre..Please check out THE OLDER I GET....another great one from Alan.

My favorite by Alaan Jackson is Drive. It also bring back a lot of memories .

I was a young adult on that day, it just seemed like a bad dream. I don't remember ever going through such a range of emotions all in one day.

Stellar reaction again, you two. Consider maybe that within the power of his words, he causes each one of us to actually become the painters of amazingly powerful pictures we each seem to see so clearly in our minds & hearts. The power of both Words & Music can truly be mind blowing.

I was in my first enlistment in the Marine Corps when 9/11 happened. Now I am retired from the military. Every time I hear this song, it takes me back to a time where I was a scared young Marine. It gives me chills EVERYTIME.

I drove a truck for a living. I remember the road and exact curve I was in when I heard about the first tower on the radio. Also the people shown covered in ash looked the same as it should be till this day. Time either makes or breaks togetherness.

'DRIVE" is an awesome song

I appreciate that you are doing Alan Jackson reactions! I think it would be awesome to see your reactions from the beginning of his career. People fell in love immediately and he has evolved a lot. “Chasin’ that neon rainbow “ was the first song I remember hearing from him. I still sing along with it every time I hear it. Hopefully y’all can check it out.

Alan has a huge catalog!!! Love me some Chatahoochee and Mercury Blues:)

Great rabbit hole to dive down ❤

Alan Jackson was my first favorite artist, since I was like 4 years old in the mid 90's. He's still on my Mount Rushmore of favorite artists. He has a huge catalog of great songs. Too many to list. One of my favorites that not many will mention is "Like Red on a Rose". It's got a different feel than his normal stuff, but it's still great and highly under appreciated. "Little Man" is another favorite of mine. I've got too many favorites from him.

Usually the artists only get a short amount of time to do their songs, and usually a normal song is a little over 3 min. This song is over 6 min and Allen wanted to the whole song but the producers nixed it and said they needed to stick to the script and he can only do a portion of it. They argued over this a lot and finally Allen finally said ok, but the night of the performance he said screw it we’re doing the whole song. So all the participants agreed and they just kept singing till the complete song was sung. Allen was always very adamant about doing what was right and in arguing with the academy he was never asked to perform on another awards show, nor if he was nominated for an award did he show up to accept it. It was his snub to the academy for trying to force him to only do a portion of this song.

My wife woke me that morning to tell me to come look at the TV. She had been watching and getting ready for work. I walked in the living room to see one of the towers burning. A few seconds later I watch in disbelief as a plane hits the second tower. My wife immediately burst into tears. Later I asked her why she burst into tears. She said because our safety in America was forever changed in that moment. Later, as I was driving to work and watching all the cars of people, knowing that we all knew what had happened. We shared a commonality of humanity that happens in times like these. Something really special about that experience. One day I hope we have that experience just because. I like you guys and enjoy your reaction videos❤ One of my favorites back in the day that I would enjoy you all reacting to is Johnny Rivers, midnight special. He has other great songs as well. One of them is poor side of town.Really high energy music for the most part. A treasure to revisit

I was in my HS Sophomore Biology AP class. It was the 2nd class of the day & suddenly all of the tv popped on & there it was. We were watching live when the 2nd tower was hit & the 1st tower fell…

Beautiful song. Very good reaction. Thank you.

There's another video of this song that shows photos of the devastation that day, it's truly heartbreaking.

Alan is the real deal.

Great reaction. This song always takes me back to that day and I start ugly crying

If l remember correctly, it's the 2nd time he sang this song live. Not long after the planes all crashed that sad day, there was a live telethon to raise $. Alan sang this song that night. I remember watching it. There were many different performers on that special. I could be wrong, but l don't think l am.

Thank you .. Alan Jackson for this amazing song

The song was released on November 26th 2001

Don’t know why there aren’t reactions to this. I cry every time I hear it.

I think this is the exact time that Alan Jackson solidified his place as a historic music maker in our country.

A beautiful song from someone with a beautiful soul and the ability to put that into a song. Amazing.

Love your reaction...

If I could tell someone one thing about this song prior to listening it would be get your blankie or tissues or whatever Bc he’s fixing to emotionally break you into pieces

a great song of his is midnight in Montgomery! It's a story of someone meeting hank seniors ghost!

Alan Jackson - Little Man (Official Music Video)

I was in my empty classroom when the second plane hit. I remember giving blood even though there really weren’t survivors to give it to. I remember driving home from work and pulling into a to a random church parking lot and standing in a circle with strangers. All the things he lists were literally taking place. I have this on my play list, but I often skip it when I am driving. I know there will be tears.

Was on the Woodrow Wilson bridge right after the plane hit the pentagon

Alan Jackson, is just iconic when it comes to country music, he's is up there we ith the best of best in country music, this is a very unique and touching song, by the way I would like to request a song by Alan Jackson, called "WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL " A great country song. Thanks

Great reaction!!!!!! Stevie ray vaughn Texas flood live from elmacambo has to be on your bucket list.

My favorite songs by the icon Alan Jackson are Remember When, Livin’ on Love, Where Were You, Small Town Southern Man, I’ll Try, Here in the Real World, Drive, She’s Got the Rhythm, The Older I Get, So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore, Monday Morning Church, and I Can't Do That Anymore (recorded by Faith Hill).

Great job with your reaction and thoughts on The Song Where Were You from Alan Jackson. It's A Amazing Song.That Should have never have to Been Written or A Day that should have never happen. . Hopefully Another One like this one will not have to be done again.

I was working 911 and it was the craziest day .. 🙃

Very soon after he performed this song at the CMA Awards, Alan Jackson went to the studio and recorded the song and it was released. It soared to the top of the Billboard Hot Country chart and surprisingly only stayed at #1 for two weeks. I would have thought it would have been at the top longer. It is one of Alan's greatest hits.

Another great song from him is little man. Great song

Alan Jackson is a TRUE class Act! In 1999 he stood up against the CMA Awards for disrespecting George Jones. PLS check out A.J. "Pop A Top / Choices" 1999 CMA awards. I gained a whole new respect for the Man that night!, New subscriber here I'm enjoying your reactions, Thank You!!

I was in the Army stationed in Germany The events of that day and the months to follow will forever be etched in my memories

Look into Alan Jackson the older I get

Yup.

You should watch the video of this - it is heartbreaking with all the images it shows.

"Country is just a white man's R&B." - Shawn Stockman (of Boyz II Men member), as a judge on NBC's The Sing-Off, an all acappella show that lead to the current success of acappella groups such Pentatonix (winners of Season 3) and Home Free (winners of Season 4).

The Older I Get by Alan is a MUST listen!!