I had just started my second year of college in CA. I remember my alarm clock radio waking me up and the DJs were saying something about a plane crashing. I turned on the TV and my first thought was that it seriously couldn't be real. It looked like something out of a movie.
I don't really think I grasped just how big of an event it was because I got ready and went to class just like normal. By the time I got to campus though, the school had been shut down and I think it remained so for a good two days after. I remember thinking at the time that it was totally crazy that anyone would think someone would target our school since we were in the middle of nowhere, haha, but I'm sure now they were just more concerned about the possibility of something happening in LA or SF and how that might effect us.
It's funny because this is the 2nd anniversary of Sept 11th that my DH has been deployed for and I feel like it seems so much more real now. It's hard not to think about all the sacrifices and lives that have been changed as a result of the events of that day. I'm pretty sure the 19 year old me had no idea that her own life would still be affected by that day, 8 years later.
