Where Was I?

Another September 11th has arrived and after 8 years the memories of that sad day still make me think back and remember everything about it. I was trying to find a photograph that I had taken that I thought would be appropriate, but I just could not find one. Then the memory of where I was when I first heard of the attacks on the World Trade Center reminded me that I had a photograph that was appropriate. That morning for me had started like any other, I got up, showered and headed out the door of my house in Big Bear to start my morning commute down the mountain to work in Riverside. It was 6:15 and I was driving around the North Shore of Big Bear Lake, just east of the houses photographed above, listening to the radio. I was having a hard time trying to understand what was being said by the hosts, something about a plane hitting the WTC and then another one not far behind. Then they mentioned that two airliners had gone missing and in that moment for me everything clicked "It must be a terrorist attack!" Those moments have stayed with me as I watched peoples lives and this country changed forever due to that day, the aftermath of it and the wars that followed because of it.