09/11/2026
It’s been 25 years since I sat on my couch in western Nebraska, eating breakfast and watching the horrors of 9/11 unfold on TV.
With the time difference, I was watching the Today Show on NBC before school. I remember Matt Lauer and Katie Couric trying to make sense of the first tower being struck. At that point, it wasn’t clear whether it was a tragic accident or an attack.
Then the second plane hit.
Even as a teenager, I knew I was watching something that would change our world forever.
I didn’t know what to say or do. I just sat there. Confused. Sad. Angry. Feeling things I didn’t know how to put into words.
The loss was felt around the world. And in the days that followed, we were united. We grieved together, stood together, and showed up for people we had never met.
Those attacks were one of the main reasons I joined the military six years later. What I watched that morning stayed with me. It still does.
We lost mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, friends, and coworkers. People who went to work that morning expecting to come home. People who boarded a flight. People who ran toward the danger to help others.
And in the wars that followed, more families received news that would change their lives forever.
We owe it to them to remember. Not just today, but every day. To work hard, become better people, and be kinder to one another. To remember the lives they lived and the families who still carry their loss.
25 years ago… but it feels like today.
-Adam, CEO and Founder
