Where were you on 9/11 25 years ago?

Welcome back to Fox 4 America, marking 25 years since the historic attacks on 9-11. You are listening to them at Ground Zero where they are reading some of the names, some of those that died. Some of the more than 3,000 people that died in these attacks. We have ceremonies underway in lower Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Shanksville, Pennsylvania as well. In New York right now, we have all living former presidents at the ceremony at Ground Zero or one of the ceremonies. And then we have the president, Donald Trump, expected to speak at the Pentagon as well. So he's there. But definitely a tough, tough morning as many remember where they were 25 years ago when those towers, when the tower, first tower was hit and then the second and then them falling later. I was in Abilene, Texas at the time of my first market. And even it was crazy to think like we were even scared in Abilene, Texas, that something might happen here. And yet this was all happening so far away from us. But yeah, and I kind of think about like I wasn't old enough to remember when JFK was killed, but that was such a moment for people, you know, they remember where they were when that happened. And I feel like for at least my generation, this was kind of that moment that you you remember where you were when it happened. I was here at Fox four and I work in the dayside shift and I remember hearing it as I was getting ready for work. And I thought, oh, a little private plane. And I think that's what a lot of people thought when they first heard that. And then as it started to develop, I got a call immediately that said, go to the American Airlines headquarters. And I was there for the rest of the day and night doing live shots on all this. My dynamic was a little bit different that morning. The first plane hit the building while we were still flying in the helicopter during the helicopter days. And like everybody else, we thought it was simply an accident. We went in and landed to get fuel, which was our custom in the middle part of the morning. And then about five to seven minutes after we took off again, the second plane went into the other tower. And that's when there was a stoppage of all planes, all aircrafts. But if you still had fuel, you could stay up. So we were the last helicopter flying in the Dallas Fort Worth area, going back and forth from the federal building in Dallas over to the airport, just simply not knowing what was potentially could happen. But there is no more surreal feeling than to have that purview for that couple of hours flying and being the only ship up in the air going and covering the stories while trying to just wrap your head around the tragedy that had just unfolded. Yeah. And I think when the towers fell, like it was like, just what? What just what happened? Like, I don't think a lot of people even, you know, could understand the, you know, the scope of that at the time. And we've heard some comments already about the day after and how, you know, political divisions disappeared. Everyone was a neighbor, you know, no matter who you were or where you were. And the country just kind of rallied together. Yes, that was something that was positive, negative, for sure. No doubt about it. Well, we pause and remember today. And, you know, that's something that you hope that you share with the younger generations who weren't here so that they know just what that day meant to so many here in the U.S.