There are very few days and moments in my life that I remember as clearly as I remember Sept. 11, 2001. It’s easy to transport myself back to that dreadful day eight years ago when our country was attacked. At that time, I had just given birth to my second daughter and had my oldest was almost 15 months old.

As I rocked my little baby girl, who was only weeks old, and watched it all unfold on TV I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I think I sat frozen in my rocking chair for hours with my baby in my arms and my older daughter playing at my feet. I was so grateful my family was safe and that my children weren’t old enough to ask questions because I didn’t have any answers. I didn’t know how to put it into words myself. It was so shocking and awful. There just weren’t words to describe the horror of the things I saw that day.

Question: What were you doing on Sept. 11, 2001 when you heard the news?