Originally Posted by
AOD_TheRealDon
I still remember everything I was doing when that happened. I was in the fifth grade and had just finished breakfast and was watching TV while I waited on my mom to drive me to school. The news was reported about the first plane hitting, and I watched as the second flew in and hit the other tower, I couldn't believe it. Being the young kid I was I ran to the other room to tell her and at first she didn't believe me til she came and watched the replay of it while I pointed out the first tower was already burning so it had to be a second one. We called my father who was air force and he even was shocked and hadn't heard anything to I went to school only to go home early that day. Years later in boot camp my division we had messed up and we're taken back to the ships compartment. There were stood at attention and they put on a video on 9/11 with a little girl talking about the lose of her dad that day. But just watching that scene over again and with that little girl broke most of us as most of us had tears peaking out at the corners of our eyes. It was then we knew the full purpose of why we had to learn this stuff which in boot camp seemed insignificant, because we are in a time were everyone had a job and one failure with any job affected all of us. Even to this day it's a reminder of how much we care about each other, but also unite us.