As an American I remember the morning of September 11, 2001 vividly.  My boyfriend and I were on the way to the DMV.  We were at the drive through window of Starbucks and listening to Howard Stern on the radio.  All of a sudden Howard mentioned that a plane hit the first tower, he was wondering what caused the pilot to go astray and have such a horrible accident.  Then the second plane came ... and by this point we knew it was an attack on our nation.  It was a scary day, I won't lie.  No one knew what was to come out of the attack ... and none of us could have ever imaged such devastation.  America was glued to their TV's and we saw so much sadness that day ... and the next month or so to follow.