When we think of those affected by the events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, we typically think of the generation who were already adults. The truth is the events from that day will forever shake the generations to come.
“I lived in a small town in Texas at the time, and I just remember being scared,” said Airman 1st Class Whitney Hagood, 460th Force Support Squadron customer service technician. “I could not fathom why airplanes were flying into buildings; I could not understand why thousands of people were dying, and the thing I couldn’t understand the most is why someone would do that sort of thing.”