It was the most beautiful day. I remember looking at the sky and thinking how amazingly blue it was. It WAS a beautiful day...

Where were you?
I was heading to an appointment up in NH and pulled into the parking lot just as Matty in the Morning was saying, "Folks, this is NOT a bit-a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center in NYC..."
I went into my appointment and told everyone to put on a TV or radio, then I called my husband. They were all in the conference room already. I knew K was safe with the kids at Jazz...

On the way home, information was coming fast and furious, confusion...panic. What was going on? What was happening next? The second plane, the Pentagon...Shanksville.

I was in front of the TV until the moment I left for the Center. Should we open for afternoon/evening classes? When I got there I took our little TV and put it in the studio room so I could watch/hear all that was going on. One of the planes from Boston, the buildings came down? OMG. That was said over and over all day and for days after.

The silence was deafening. No planes. Traffic disappeared. People were so kind to each other. So, so kind, everywhere.

We did open. We had our classes, myself and our instructors wanted to teach, they wanted to be together and see our clients.

We wanted American flags everywhere-we made pins to give to our clients. We realized one of the pilots' wives was a former client and one of our clients cousins was a flight attendant.

When we finally realized all that had happened...terrorism. They came here, they attacked us. Those people on the plane that went down in PA? What they did was amazing. They took action, they didn't just sit there. They knew what was going to happen and they did it anyway. So much respect for each one of them, whom I will never know. Doesn't matter. I know they saved all of us.

All those firefighters and EMTs and police-anyone who stepped in to save someone else? You are heroes to all of us.

Today? We remember. We vow to never forget.

Please go out and commit a random act of kindness to someone-buy someone's coffee in the drive through, let someone pass, hold a door open, drop off cookies to a neighbor, hug your kids and your husband and your dog or cat, even if they all drive you crazy. Thank a police officer or fireman. Do something for a military family.