I don't really remember this day, but I know how traumatic it was for everyone. I was only 6 years old in 2001 and only remember when I was sitting in my grandmom's kitchen staring at the T.V. while my grandmom passed back and forth. There was never anyone in the towers that we knew personally, but just the sight of the second plane crashing into the tower was heartbreaking enough. Just knowing that thousands of people were helpless in the building, was a horrible thought. I remember asking my grandmom why people were jumping out of the building and she said because some people chose to because they knew they were not going to survive. I never realized how many people died that day over a terrorist attack. Since I'm older I realized what a terrible day that was, how people just went on with their daily routine not knowing what was going to happen in the next couple hours. Recently, my boss told about how a customer was a worker at one of the towers. He was on his way to work that day , but his six year old daughter begged him to stay home for the day and he kept saying he couldn't until he gave in and stayed home on September 11th. his daughter saved his life that day because his office was at the top of the first building. He would have never survived that terrible day, and now he thanks his daughter everyday for that.
