A day we will never forget...

Today marks the 8th year anniversary of the September 11th attacks. It's hard to believe it happened 8 years ago. I'll never forget the 5 a.m. phone call I got from my husband, who was vacationing in San Francisco at the time, informing me that hijackers had taken control of four commercial airliners, and that two had already hit the World Trade Center Towers in New York. I was scheduled to work that day at Agnes b. in Ala Moana, but the mall closed due to the attacks. I drove to my parent's house to be with them and my brother, Jason. We all gathered around the tv and watched the news in complete shock and horror as more news developed about the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crashes, and the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. I went through a roller coaster of emotions... panic, disbelief, depression, anger, sorrow... I can't even begin to imagine how actual family members and friends of the victims must have felt, or the New Yorkers who were there and saw everything happen right in front of them. My heart goes out to them and to 9/11's fallen heros on this sad day in history.