It was my senior year of high school, but I was lying in a hospital bed because I had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes the day before. I woke up to find my mom glued to the TV and at least three other nurses at my bedside watching in shock.

I was required to stay in the hospital for five days, so I watched constant footage of the towers falling down again and again; it was on every single channel and no way of escaping it! Crazy memories.