Where Were You On 9/11

It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that 13 years have passed since the Twin Towers attack. So much has happened; I came home from Ecuador, got married, went to college, moved 7 times, bought a house, and I have 4 kids now who are all in school. I hope they are being taught what happened to our country 13 years ago.

I was on an LDS mission in Ecuador when the United States was attacked. So I feel as if I lived it from a very different perspective than most. I wasn't in my home country, I was surrounded by people of different beliefs, race, and religions. Despite all of those differences, I still felt comforted and united because the majority of people I talked to felt the same as I did. They wondered "who and why?"

10 years later, as a country we have fought to regain the freedom and security that we had prior to 9/11. We'll continue to fight, because we and our families live in the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Where were you on 9/11? Leave your story in the comments below. Here are the stories of that day from some celebrities as they too remember that day.

PAUL McCARTNEY

"I was on my way back to England, and we were at JFK on the tarmac, and the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right-hand side of the airplane, you could see the twin towers. You could see one plume of smoke, and then you could see two shortly thereafter.

I said, 'Well, that's an optical illusion, you know.' Then one of the stewards came to me and said, 'Look, there's been something really serious happened in New York, and we've got to get you out of here.'

I ended up in Long Island watching it on TV, watching the whole story unfold -- like everyone else in the world -- wanting to go into New York, but nobody was allowed back in.

AL PACINO

"It was the most terrifying, the most heartbreaking day. I was on a plane the evening before it happened, September 10.

I was in Los Angeles, and all I wanted was to get back to my home -- New York.

I couldn't get back, the planes wouldn't move. It was devastating."

MATT DAMON

"I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what's going on.

I just remember being glued to my television despite the fact that it was happening kind of right outside my door."

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