Alan Jackson Where were You | Metal / Rock fans first time reaction with Makers Mark Private Select
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- Metal / Rock fans first time reaction to Alan Jackson's "Where were You" while checking out some Maker's Mark Private Select Tasting Panel Edition
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As an army brat of 2 vets who grew up on military bases, have many active and retired military family members, a 911 survivor and 1st responder and a federal agent, this song got to me beyond belief. 🇺🇸 💪🏾
Alan wrote this song just a few weeks after 9/11 and performed it for the first time live on the CMA Awards. It was one of the most powerful moments I’ve ever experienced with music in my life.
Same
Totally agreed. It was a very heartfelt, painful memory for many that night
My first trip to NY, we were due to fly home on 9/11 but due to a family emergency, caught the red eye on 9/10. Landing on the west coast early that morning and seeing it breaking on airport tv. I will Never Forget
Yes! That live performance is one I still remember clearly as one that spoke to so many of us in the country who didn't have the experience and knowledge that Keith had - maybe we should have known more but so many of us weren't focused on these kind of things before 9/11. It was a moment that put our collective grief, shock, confusion, and even regret for ignorance into a simple song that was super cathartic at that time and still puts me in that space all these years later.
I imagine that performance, at that time, was incredibly powerful. - Keith
He captivated an entire world by sitting down in a chair with a guitar & his band & just silenced us all with his words.
You guys almost had me. The thing is, the information available on the internet was not what it is today. I am a very educated woman, but I didn’t know the difference either. I was busy being a parent, living my life and working, and wasn’t interested in politics-or world matters-like I have become since that tragic event. And no, the info was not readily available, and I wasn’t interested in taking a deep dive into knowing about those countries. Of course, once it happened, I became interested. This song was written for the everyday common person. The feelings and all of the emotions we all felt during and after. The truth of this song is the fact that, for a little while, we all united. We all came together amidst this devastating tragedy. We helped each other. Alan Jackson got it right when he said “and the greatest is love”. What he meant was that this event brought us all together in love. I’m sorry for you guys if you weren’t able to experience that. For that moment, we didn’t care about anything but coming together and helping in any way we could. The politics and anger didn’t come in until later.
I agree Rhonda, everyone had their own perspective. Just because you don't understand why doesn't make it wrong. But to put people down because they don't have the same perspective is a liberal attitude. Alan Jackson did a great job promoting a multitude of different thoughts and feelings on that day.
@@day2daylife1 I’m sorry. I wasn’t putting anyone down. I really meant it when I said I’m sorry for anyone who didn’t get to experience the great coming together this evil action invoked. That’s all.
The reason I knew them was because I was an Army Brat and both my first and present husband's had served in the Marine's. Being around the military and also a military base you tend to hear and also learn a lot.
That's fair. It did bring us together for a minute or two, which I'm sure for a lot of people makes it nostalgic 20 years later. However, without getting political, so much of what is wrong, no matter where you land on the political spectrum, is an utter lack of knowledge on much of anything. We're reduced to memes, tweets, and a media whos job is not educating or informing us, but selling Doritos advertising. And that is our choice. And I say this a-politically. All sides are guilty. That is the real lesson we did NOT learn after 9/11. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts You’ve summed up the last 20 years perfectly and accurately. Thank you.
I was in 8th grade. I was sitting in science class at the table immediately to the right when you walk in the classroom. Our principal came on the PA and asked all teachers to turn to school channel 8. (Was different channel 8 from local channels.) Our teacher did and she just sat down and cried as we watched confused. The rest of the day, nothing really got done because it was the topic of every conversation in every class.
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Fast forward to Jan 2020. I work in the same school district in which I grew up. I was covering for someone who was out at one of our high schools. Had a meeting with one of the principals (we do these frequently) and she said "you look familiar." I told her my maiden name and she said she remembers me. I was in her class when 9/11 happened. I confirmed this and we just hugged. It was a bittersweet thing for us.
2021 and I started working at the very same middle school where I was when it all happened.
The district has a 9/11 moment of silence and discussion every year, but this year hit a little different being in the same building where I was when it happened.
I imagine so. - Keith
I was in high school taking the state testing and the principal came over the loud speaker and said a plane had crashed into the first tower. My very first thought was Omg! We have some dumbass pilots out there if they can't see a building in front of them. Went back to taking the test and then he came over again that a second plane had hit the other tower, I went completely numb. I don't remember the rest of the testing. The next thing I remember is leaving the auditorium and all the TVs were on and I saw it for the first time. I ran to the payphone and called my mom. It is a day that I know I will never forget and if they are a true American that was old enough to understand what was going on they shouldn't forget either.
Alan Jackson wrote that song a short time after 911. As he said, he was a singer of simple things, he was not a military man. He was not a student of world affairs. He was probably understating how much he personally knew. The songs he has written are not the words of a shallow mind.His point was that he was just an average guys like most Americans.
I was gobsmacked standing in my living room.. staring blankly at the television screen... Then the calls came in to get supplies on tug boats to get over to Gander, Newfoundland 🇨🇦
Every plane over North American East Coast and Atlantic Ocean was grounded to Gander.
The "population" doubled in 3 hours.
Great Documentaries on it; and a movie made.
Folks still come every year in memory.
I was in Marine Corp bootcamp it was a scary moment in my life I'll never forget 2 years later I was in Iraq fighting for my life it was scary love the realness at the end ❤️
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I joined the Navy because of what happened and still every time I hear this song it brings back those feelings of shear anger and sorrow I can't listen to it without crying 😢
This song still makes me breakdown every time I hear it, I love his delivery of it!
He did a good job of that delivery. - Keith
I was getting ready to go to class in the morning and listening to sports talk radio. They broke in with the news of the first plane. I turned the TV on and watched for a few minutes while I finished getting ready. Went and hugged my wife goodbye, woke her up and told her about the (what we thought at the time) accident in NY. I had just got to class and sat down when the second plane hit and there was no doubt it wasn't an accident. I don't remember anything about the class that day. Didn't go to any more of my classes, just went back to our apartment and watched the news all day.
On another note, a couple years before, I had started college and was in the ROTC. After the first year, I was given a medical disqual/DODMRB (DOD Medical Review Board) release from ROTC becasue of a surgery I had before starting school. Because of that, had to postpone the rest of school for a couple years to get it paid for. Otherwise I would have graduated in 1999 and been active duty at that time. So I understand a little of what Keith was saying about knowing some of the guys going over and feeling guilty for not being with them.
I’m a 56 year old woman, and I can honestly say when this happened I didn’t know the difference between Iraq and Iran.. and I feel a lot of people felt the same.. no disrespect to you and I thank you for your service. I didn’t have any access to internet in my tiny town of 400 in 2001. So please don’t judge my lack of information as ignorance.
Lack of information, is actually "ignorance" by definition. I think a lot of people mis-interpret that as "stupid." I definitely was not calling anyone stupid. Lots of very smart people didn't (and still don't) know much of anything about what led to 9/11. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts I was just going with when you said “ you f-ing should” know the difference.. and did take it wrong.
Oh wow, such a beautiful reaction, you guys are awesome. I was at home, in my office waiting for my husband to let me know he had arrived at the Pentagon. Thankfully, he was running late and on the exit ramp for the Pentagon when the plane hit, I was a wreck until I heard from him.
I imagine so. One of my friends was awarded a medal for valor at the Pentagon that day. - Keith
At that time I lived just outside of Baltimore MD and was in middle school math. The teacher came into class after the first tower was hit and said "the higher upside tell me that I am not to show you what is on the news right now but I feel you need to know." and put it on. Many of the kids in my school had family who worked in those buildings which was the reason for not wanting to show them until there was someone who could help them understand what was happening.
Was too young when this happend, but it's been like a shadow. This is n reason I'm proud to serve and be a soldier for this country. RIP all those souls. 😔....and if the politicians would just get their shit together...
My cousin had been in the Marines, got out and became of police officer but when the attack of Sept. 11th happened he tried to re-enlist with the Marines. Of course they didn't take him up on it. But the Army took him and he spent 16 months in Iraq leading a squad sweeping houses. While he was there, my mom died and somehow he got a call into me. His call, from the middle of hell, to tell me how sorry he was meant the world to me. It still does. I told him "Don't let them take your heart." I knew he and his team were doing shit that could change him forever. He told me he wouldn't let them. He didn't come back the same but he managed to bring all his guys home. It took him a couple years before he stopped having nightmares. But with patience, love and his will to be present in the lives of his wife, children and extended family he somehow made his way back to all of us and we are soooo grateful.
Incredible song. I had dropped my kids off at school. I was in the main office at the school looked at the t.v. and watched the second plan hit the tower. I stood dumbfounded. I just left the school. The BS that had me in the office didn't matter anymore. One of those days where you will always know where you were. I've never seen so many houses flying flags as I did at that time. Thank you for your reaction and your stories. Thank you Keith for your service. 🚔🚑🚒🇺🇸🪖⛑️✈️
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I was a Medic and had just walked in the door from a 24 hr. shift. Cut on the tv and watched the second plane fly into the second building. That was the first I’d heard about it. Total shock! My son was over there to. He actually did two tours over there.
i was in eighth grade history class... someone from the office went around quietly telling the teachers to get the students from the naval base out of class because the navy base was entering lockdown. the rest of us went home shortly after because that was 3/4s the school gone. that was the ONLY day i ever recall WILLINGLY watching the news in my whole life.
The other one about 9/11 is Have you forgotten by Darrly Worley
Added a vote for that one -Dustin
@@BourbonCountryReacts Dustin should add 15 votes since it got 15 likes lol
@@BourbonCountryReacts still want a reaction on Angel Flight radio tower remix by Radney Foster. Already talked to Keith about. Great tribute song to all the fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, and Marines
Alan was reluctant to release this. He was afraid people would think he was trying to jump on the band wagon just to sell cds
It's not my impression from the song, that he was just trying to make a buck. - Keith
I was in college, driving to my classes. And I heard it on the radio. I was listening to my favorite DJ at the time. And he said, "I know I usually joke about things. But, I am serious about this. The twin towers have been hit!" And this guy was a practical joker. He was always doing or saying something to get laughs, whatever. But, he was so serious.... I parked at the college and went into the cafeteria to watch the TV. I sat and watched the news coverage. And the rest of that day was a bit of a blur. I was in shock for days after that, I do remember that. I think Alan just encapsulated all the emotions, fears, realizations so well in this song. It's still so powerful. And it still resonates. Virginia was a scary state to live in at the time, being so very close to D.C. You mentioned planes. I remember a plane flying over the house a day or two after the restrictions were put in place. I was so freaked out. I have no idea who was flying or what their mission/purpose was. It made me feel like a sitting duck in my own house. It was a Horrible, Horrible feeling. Glad you finally got around to Alan Jackson. He has been around since the 80s or 90s. So, as you may imagine, he has an extensive catalogue. There are so many greats here, and you really can't go wrong. But a few of my favs are Drive, Mercury, Remember When, and I Don't Even Know Your Name (The video and song are absolutely hilarious.)
Yeah, I had people in NOVA, and one at the Pentagon. - Keith
Votes Added for the tunes you recommended -Dustin
I will never forget the moment we learned of the attack and I will never forget seeing footage of those planes hitting those buildings. I remember the horror and shock.
I suspect anyone who was alive remembers the same. - Keith
I was driving to work on the freeway when I heard it on the radio and my heart dropped.
I have to think about my comments for a minute. First off thank you for your service. My father and brother were army, uncle navy, uncle air force and my grandfather was a merchant marine in WWII. So that is not just a casual comment.
Now for the song. It came out a few weeks after 9/11 and at that time everyone needed something to grab onto. Remember the entertainment industry was also struggling with what to say or not say. Dustin was correct that Alan's song covered a wide gambit of human reactions - stages of grief and shock.
Yes, you do need to learn about the world, but remember that the majority of the population was innocent per say. You took care of what was close to home and let the professionals take care of everything else. Not right, but that was the culture.
I saw the live news that morning and cried. Then went to work and started working on the emotional support for the employees that worked for that company. We had lots of ex-military families and we were a military contractor.
I tried to put my thoughts into words, but they do not always translate. Thank you again for the entrainment you provide.
Question: Do you guys have a list somewhere of the burbons you have reviewed?
I had 3 kids in school and spent the morning on the phone with my hubby's ex. We knew he drove
by the trade center every other day on his trucking route buts didn know if he was there that morning. We were relived to find out he had been there Sept 10. We had a good friend who worked in the trade center on one of the high floors. He had called out that day for what I like to call mental health day. He had such severe survivers guilt and trauma he had to change profession and move to a new state. It was a horrible time.
We generally just use our video title list. But, I think that's easier for us to search than for you guys. - Keith
The Bourbon's we've tried on channel to date:
Weller Antique 107
Horse Solider Barrel Proof - Meijer Barrel Pick
Bardstown Bottled in Bond
Blanton’s Bourbon
Hotel Tango Single Barrel - Meijer Barrel Pick
Ezra Brooks Distillers Collection
Hugh Hamer Double Oaked
Peerless Bourbon - Sweet Smokey Goodness
Elijah Craig 18yr
Elijah Craig Toasted Barrel
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked
Eagle Rare
Knob Creek Single Barrel Select
Marker Mark 101
Jack Daniels Single Barrel Barrel Proof Rye
Old Soul
Four Roses Single Barrel 60
EH Taylor BIB
Evan Williams BIB
Jim Beam Devil's Cut
Russel's Reserve - Meijer Barrel Pick
Horse Solider Commander Select
Blood Oath Pact 6 (Cognac Cask)
Rabbit Hole Original (2017 Winner)
Old Forester Single Barrel Barrel Proof
Rowans Creek
Belle Meade Reserve
Markers Mark Private Select 7th & 70 (2021)
Ezra Brooks 99
New Riff Original
Kings County Bourbon
Remus Repeal V
Smoke Wagon
Yellow Stone - Blue Store Barrel Pick
Old Hamer Cask Strength Rye
William Rose Bourbon
Four Roses Small Batch Select
Blood Oath Pact 7 (Sauternes Cask)
Starlight Honey Barrel
Bardstown Prisoner Series 1
Old Hamer Capital City Thief
Rebel Distillers Select
Marker Mark Private Select (Camp Fire Fist Punch)
Larceny Barrel Proof
New Riff Single Barrel - Big Red Liquor
Elijah Craig BP (which one?)
Wild Turkey Rare Bread Rye
Woodford Reserve Distillery Select (Five Wood)
Jefferson's Ocean Barrel Proof
Kings County Rye
Clyde Mayes Rye
Makers Mark Private Select (Grandpa's Toddy)
Horse Soldier Small Batch
Woodford Rye
Wyoming Whiskey
003 Hotel Tango Reserve
Sweetens Cove
Davis County White Label
Ezra Brooks Rye
Kings County Peated Bourbon
Willet Pot Still
Jefferson's Reserve Twin Oaked
Old 55 100% Sweet Corn
William Rose Wheated
Palmetto Moonshine - Boot legger Proof
Pinhook - Kentucky Straight Bourbon
High West Double Rye Peated Barrel
Black Ridge Bourbon
Caribou Crossing
Noah's Mill
Woodford Reserve Double Double Oaked
Cardinal Spirits Barrel Proof
Davis County Black Label Double Oaked
Chattanooga Whiskey 111
Pinhook - Justin's House of Bourbon Barrel
Pure Kentucky
Krogrmans
Makers Mark Private Select Tasting Panel
Buffalo Trace
Basil Hayden
Makers Mark
Woodford Reserve Wheat Whisky
Restoration Rye Batch 1
Redemption Rye
Kings County Bottled in Bond
Peerless Double Oaked Bourbon
JTS Bottled in Bond
Sexton Irish Whiskey
Blanton’s Bourbon
Old Hamer Rural Inn Barrel Pick
Hotel Tango Single Barrel - house pick
Benchmark Full Proof
Woodford Reserve Toasted Oak Rye
Lux Double Barrel 12 Year 2021
Akasha Ume Whiskey
Two Stars Bourbon
Winchester Double Oaked
Starlight Barrel Pick - Ted - Onsite
Knob Creek 9 years
1792 Small Batch
Peerless Rye, Ginger Oh-Snap
Bib & Tucker
@@BourbonCountryReacts Wow! What a list!!!!
This song always reminds me of the day. It chokes me up still when I do hear it. I was pumping gas when I heard about the first plane hit. I said a prayer. Drove to work as the second plane hit. I called mom and asked if I was naive.
Most of the country was naive, honestly. And frankly, on matters of foreign policy, still is. - Keith
I was in 9th grade Spanish class, I remember my class being excited when the teacher brought the tv in because we thought it was a movie day.
Heh, yeah, not so much movie day. - Keith
I was 23ish... Readying a flight for my final and 2nd flight attendant interview...that was my career choice. I called a friend at the airport and asked if my flight was on-time... she said "You need to turn on the TV, your flight won't make it". I turned it on... looked on in horror and froze staring at the screen. (this impacted the family of airline workers sooo hard) One of the weirdest emotions of the day for me, was when the last tower fell and Dan Rather(newscaster) went silent...all was silent...it felt like you could hear a pin drop around the entire world. Absolutely the eeriest sensation I've ever felt. A few hours later I stood in line 2 hours to give blood. My career path as a flight attendant was over. It changed the trajectory of my life. Anyway... just a quick story about it. My friend in NY went to see his friend's (who perished in the towers) wife, and when he pulled up to their home, his friends car was in the drive, a carseat in the back, and he burst into tears, knowing his friend would never return or see his baby again. There are millions of stories.
I was in my living room with my husband in Iowa still unpacking from just returning from New York all I could do was stand there and cry uncontrollably and being a first responder I felt all the pain and the horror those people were feeling.
I worked as a machine operator at a factory and my supervisor come and told me what happened. I will never forget that. I'm in Cleveland Oh. and the airport traffic flies over my house so it was really eerie to not hear any planes. And you guys aren't idiots, just two fun lovin fellas living life and enjoying it! Also thank you for your service Keith. Til the next.🖒
Thanks
So, I was in a nursing school classroom when they called us into a room with a television… I was standing there andsaw the second plane crash, saw the people jumping- Something changed in me (as cheesy as that sounds.) A week later I dropped out of school and walked into a Marine Corp Recruitment Center. They didnt have to recruit me; my mind was made up. Three weeks later I was standing on the yellow footprints at Parris Island.
Lost friends/ brothers in Fallujah. When secured got called out with 1st MarDiv to create a defendable base. We’re surrounded by people who will never get it; couldn’t if they tried. I dont even know you, Keith, but I know you… you get it. That means something. Thank you.
This is the first time I’ve actually listened to this song. Probably will get some hate for this but I refused to hear it back then- it felt like a “cash in” to me at the time. I can appreciate the song now but still have some reservations about it.
Love Alan Jackson overall so this was a tough one for me.
Chatahoochie is a fun song: ua-cam.com/video/JW5UEW2kYvc/v-deo.html
I had a cousin who lived in New York. Where he and is partner lived was the rich side of New York and they could see Trade Towers from the apartment building. His partner's route to work was right under the Towers. When The towers were hit and fell my cousin spent 5 or 6 hours wondering where is partner was and if he was alive. Hours later a knock was heard and there was his partner who had walked from where he was at as he had taken a detour at he last moment to get something from a cafe that wasn't near the Towers. My cousin smacked his partner across the face then pulled him into a hug. Then drew a bath for him as his Partner was filthy and feet were bleeding from the walk home and the 50 or 80 flights of stairs he had to walk up do the the elevators not running. Then for the entire week they were the grocery boys since a lot of people in the building were elderly and there was no way they would be able to do the stairs. Next to coming out to the parents in the 80s this was the most scariest thing that had ever happened to them as partners. They are still together 40 years and counting
I was at work in a doctors office as a receptionist. We had the tv on in the waiting room. I watched as the planes hit. I was shocked and dumbfounded. We had to continue our day because people had dr appointments.
Keith thank you for your service! My dad was in the Navy and my daughter was in the Army! She would have been on the front lines if anything broke out while she was in. She was in field artillery as a fire support specialist. I’m so thankful that war didn’t break out.
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I was teaching a class of kids. Which was my last day before vacation. We were flying out to Europe on September 12th to spend my 21st birthday in Europe. Had dinner plans to have my birthday dinner and sunset at the Eiffel Tower. Never happened since airspace was closed, but it was ok. After what so many had just lost, I was fine missing this trip. We have since made up for it.
Thanksgiving Day 1990, I was at WTC1; brunch. Marched the parade that day. 'Windows on the World ' lost 70+ of their restaurant contingent. These dudes were James Beard Award winners. I cried like a brat when the North Tower fell. This song..... eerie.
My Uncle was in Faluja as a Marine
He was part of the guys going in and doing house clearing, and nearly died when a guy climbed out of a cabinet and shot him point blank 6 times with an AK.
He told me that all he remembers thinking was well It's my turn I guess.
Somehow his Flack jacket absorbed all the rounds. A miracle by all accounts.
He was the only one of his 13 guys to come home, and his best friend since Hi-school died on his Birthday over there.
My Uncle didn't celebrate his b-day for years.
Also my Stepdad was an Army Tank mechanic over there , but was injured on his 6th deployment when a rocket took out the communications tent. He dove under a tank when he heard it coming in, but the explosion created a brain bleed that no Dr will touch because one twitch and it would either kill him or make him a vegetable. He is slowly losing his memory and will in fact be helpless I a few years anyway sadly.
To this day nobody in the family have a tea kettle because it went off at Thanksgiving one year, and both he and my uncle dove under the table.
Thank you for your family's service and sacrifice -Dustin
Thank you for your service Keith!
I was in Jenks, Oklahoma, at the store buying shop supplies. Left my stuff on the belt and raced back to the shop to get to a TV. Watched....collapsed....cried....
I was a second grader. I had just finished breakfast, just gotten to class, and all I heard from my teacher was that we'd been attacked, and she sat us in front of the TV to watch while our parents were being called and were on their way to get us. (I was going to a private school in a different city from where I lived at the time, so my mom took awhile to get there.) I remember being scared, and thinking man, this is such a WEIRD day. I thought I was dreaming, but nah.
Certain big historical events always have an air of surreality to them. - Keith
First I may or may not be like many UA-camrs, catching things here there or over there when it comes to when yall posted this or other videos. I will say this one strikes home, on a few fronts, sure you posted it years ago. First my father is a retired Air Force sergeant. My brother severed five years in the United States Marine Corps. I did not ever serve our nation, yet I severed in another way. My Grand father, and my father, after he left the Air Force, were volunteer fire fighters in our community. When I reached the age of 21 I also was a volunteer fire fighter for six years. I did this after getting things to gather and could live at home and go to collage. My before mentioned brother will soon retire as a full time fire fighter. I am now ahhh well into my 50's but have done EMS training for volunteer teams, yes we have a few here, in Hawaii where life kind of guided me. When I watch yalls videos, hope it is not out of line, I never severed my nation, but I did server my community. On a side note our fire station had the only set of 'Jaws of Life" for car accidents in two counties, so yea responded to a LOT of accidents. I so love your channel keep it up, and yeah just me.
I was working a customer service job in a call center. I walked to the breakroom as CNN was showing a plane hitting the tower. I stood there in horror not believing what my eyes were seeing. The phones went dead silent. I could not believe that the owners made everyone stay. After I was able to go home, I obsessively watched the news, praying for survivors, but knowing that it would not happen. As everything unfolded over the next several days, I finally had to stop watching the news as it was giving me nightmares. I lost a friend in the collapse of the tower. He will never be forgotten.
I didn't lose anyone on 9/11. But I did in the conflicts to follow. - Keith
One of the older women at church, Susie, is a 9/11 survivor and she did feel a kind of guilt because her co worker, a younger mother of 3 did not survive. Guilt is a strange emotion.
Yes, I think Alan was referring to those people that was in the midst if it all.
If I had worked in, or lived near the towers, survivors guilt would have been much more likely to affect me. I felt guilty that I wasn't still in the Corps. - Keith
This song hits me too hard. It took me a while before I could watch this reaction. 1st I have to say, I come from an almost entirely military family. The others are cops, fire fighters or married to them. And I was born in Brooklyn NY. My father's side are NY and my Mom's are from Boston. Very Irish family.
It was the first time we had ever been away from our sons. We were in FL and they were in OH with their Grandma. We had just gone to see my Brother, who is a Coast Guard pilot in Miami. I couldn't sleep at all that night. I had a horrible feeling I couldn't place. I had just turned off the computer and turned off the TV. And my husband got up and turned the TV on. About 1 min later he slapped my leg and pointed at the TV. I asked him, " What movie ate you watching?" And he shouted," No! This is the news!" And the second plane hit. I just screamed, " We're under attack!"
I tried to call my Brother and no luck. I had no ones phone numbers with me. I couldn't reach my family back in NY. My Uncle and Cousin both worked in the smaller buildings right next to the Twin Towers. Little did I know how many people we knew that would be killed. Too many.
A Cousin was in charge of 5 fire Depts in Manhattan that day. He was killed when his tower fell. My father's ex-gf( my parents were divorce) had just gotten a job in The Windows Of The World Restaurant in the other tower. She was killed. Our friend's wife here in Ohio was on Flight 11, that struck the Pentagon. Our old neighbors, friends etc...Too many people to mention.
So, the question of guilt for surviving was one many, many people had to deal with.
My other Cousin has just had his book about 9/11 published. And it is from his perspective. He's a West Point graduate and Airborne Ranger. It's called Casting Away Stones. By Daniel Geraghty. He's a teacher in CT.
I only know one person directly involved in any of it, and he received a medal for valor that day. - Keith
i am so sorry for your immense loss. i was only eighth grade at the time but i remember thinking when i knew a little of what was going on "all those poor survivors are scarred for life". and i wasn't just thinking about the actual survivors of the attacks but the people who survived the loss of loved ones in those attacks as well.
Thank you for your service brother. Both of my grandpas were in the military, one in the Marines in Vietnam and one in the Army in Vietnam. I know of the event of 9/11 and I know what happened, but I wasn’t born yet as I was born in 2003. I respect everyone who passed on that day and I remember when that day comes around every year. Thank you for reacting to this song. Definitely one of my favorites and one of my favorite artists. Such a shame of what happened that day and one of the biggest events in American History.
Well, thanks for being one among your generation to actually bother to understand history. Rare these days. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts you’re welcome y’all
I was at the airport. Flights were cancelled. This song still cuts the onions.
I agree young fella. It sucks.
A buddy of mine was at the airport too. In Germany. He had a rough week. - Keith
Dolly Parton wrote a song called "Hello God" after the September 11, 2001, attacks. There is a very moving live performance by Dolly at the CMA awards. She was as shaken as anyone in the aftermath of those terrorist attacks and this was her response. I recommend if you haven't heard it give it a listen.
I was a freshman in college, and in my 1st class, our professor was late. We were contemplating leaving, when she came in, rushing and very hyper. She said she’d been in the lounge and saw a news report that the WTC had been hit by a plane. She didn’t stay long enough to see the second one, and so we went about our lesson-thinking it had been an accident. By the time I got to my 2nd class, we got the message that the school was closing for the day-we still had no idea why. On the hour drive to home, I was listening to the radio. All I heard was a lot of chaotic screaming and crying from people-again, in that drive, nothing was said about what happened, so I was still clueless. I got home, and my grandma was standing in front of the tv, crying. I got caught up, and we stood there for hours, crying and praying…you never forget.
I was 17yrs old just sent my lil sis to school my mom left for work. I had just finished cleaning up after breakfast and sat in the floor to watch TV cause our remote was broken and I just sat in shock .
I should have been in school but Dad used to give me free days where I could just skip and recover so I had gone back to bed. Back then I'd fall asleep to the radio and I woke up all of a sudden when I heard a lot of beeps on K99.1 FM. At first I thought it was a storm but then I heard what happened. I was a bit too young to truly understand what was going on until I turned on the TV to see the smoking towers but it was the people falling from the buildings that really hit me hard and realize the gravity of the situation. Dad had come home for lunch and had a real grave look on his face. He was a vet and this hit him real hard. He never talked much about the service except for the 'good times' as the rest he'd just shove it in a box away from him.
Toby Keith's The Angry American almost shut down our servers in Turkey because it was shared so much. It's a bit more upbeat. I was supposed to be on a plane back to the states that day but my supervisor cancelled that the day before. They found plans of our base in the room of one the "pilots" and we were on lockdown for months. On the plus side, my sister got to deploy to my base and we had four months together.
Being on base OCONUS had to be ... different. - Keith
My daughter was 11 days old, I was sitting on the couch nursing her had the Tv on mute, my head was laid back with my eyes closed and something said look up, and I saw the 2nd plane hit the 2nd tower, I thought it was a scene from a movie, I turned up the volume and was shocked!!! I went through anger, heartache, heartbreak, sadness and shock!!!!
Everyone has stark memories. It's a generation's version of the day Kennedy was shot. - Keith
My mom was in the navy and I asked her after listening to this song, where she was. She had just come off watch on the super carrier USS Carl Vinson to see the news, hear it from her shipmates, and hear the captain announce that port visits and outgoing communication was halted so they could go drop bombs in the middle east. "72 days of continous air operatio s" I still have her service coin. She's still around but that's the only time she's ever spoke about it.
Always brings tears and memories of that time.😢💔
It was a different world than today, for sure. - Keith
I woke up to make my husband's lunch. I turned on the tv, turned to walk in to the kitchen. I can't tell what made turn around because there was no volume. I didn't want to wake my 3 girls. I saw the plain hit the tower and I just hit the floor. My husband came in and we just held on to each other. He finally got up and went to work. I called my mom and held my kids for the rest of the day praying for those poor souls..
Loved the reaction fellas! Thank you for your service!!🇺🇸
I was in science class in 8th grade when 9/11 happened. I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was at my office, normal morning coffee and cigarette while watching tv, clubhouse of apartment community, we would prop the back door open and smoke in threshold. It was surreal… Keith, thank you for your service, as a Marine wife, Semper Fi. Now Alan Jackson, I really like him, music wise, but yeah, his cnn words and that he didn’t know the difference, then he should have looked it up and then finished his song. Remember then not as much internet as we had now, no smart phone, yes the wide world web existed. We didn’t use it like we have now, but yes, he should have with his money paid someone to research lol .
I live in Jacksonville, FL and very close to Ceicil field. It was weird with zero aircraft’s coming or going from any of the bases. The day the challenger blew up and 9/11/01 will be two days that I will never forget.
I'm very Patriotic and love my Country but I've lived my best life. I don't feel like our children's going to have the freedom that we had because they've not gone thru anything.
Hell I was in first grade and I won’t ever forget
Oh that day..... my nephew, barely 3 months old, got a LOT of hugs that day and I swear, his head stayed soaked with the tears of everyone who held him close. I had worked late the night before and came down the stairs just in time to see the second plane hit. A day I'll never forget.
Ngl that song makes me cry and hits me when I hear it and I wasn’t even alive when that happened
I will NEVER forget where I was on that September day!! God Bless the USA!!! Please react to Darryl Warrley's "Have You Forgotten" It is amazing!!! I haven't forgotten. Have you?
Alan Jackson has all kinds of great songs to dive into. Remember When, Chattahoochee, the best is, Its Five O’clock Somewhere and Midnight in Montgomery.
Votes added -Dustin
Thank you for your service.
Thanks
Awesome reaction as usual, thanks for your work.
Thank you.
Those that were old enough will never forget the moment they found out what happened on September 11, 2001. That memory will forever be burned in your mind. School was 'fun' that day as a 17 year old.
I love that you are checking out country music. It's all I listen to now. I grew up on great rock and roll and also loved pop music. Now in my 60's country music speaks to me in a way I never expected. It's stories of real life that made me stop and realize how important things I took for granted are. I have a very different perspective now and can always find a song that fits any situation I find myself in. Great channel.
My roommate at the time worked at the VA and called. She asked me to put on CNN and then call back and let them know what was happening. There was a possible report of the first plane on the radio but no other info. I was watching when the second plane hit. I was the only person at home for any of the workers who could let them know what was happening and they could then let the vets who were waiting for scripts know as well.
Back during the first gulf war I was student teaching and had to correct the master teacher in the classroom that we were not going up against Iran. She had been teaching for 20 yrs. A few days later I actually taught a lesson to the 1st and 2nd graders on Iraq and Iran and how they were similar and different. The teacher actually thought it was one country. That was 1991 I think.
Regardless of views on the singers or their political view. This song and Courtesy of the Red White and Blue by Toby Keith r.i.p. Showcased the two ends of the emotional spectum directly following these tragic and horific events
I was st work in an office in suburb of Chicago (only a couple of miles from O'Hare Airport) We turned on the tv in our conference room after hearing about the first plane and were watching as the 2nd one hit. I remember feeling that tingly numb sensation after it sunk in. Called my mom to check in. Sometime later that day, a friend and I stepped outside and a plane had drawn a cross in the sky. Some of the guys from our company were doing a job at the Federal Reserve in Chicago and it went on lockdown. I think they were stuck until the early morning of the next day. Everything (including the skies) seemed so eerily quiet for several days.
Couldn't stop watching the news and feeling stunned.
I still remember what I was doing that day sitting watching good morning america with their live feed in the background of the twin towers saw the first plane hit then the second ( that's the reason they don't do background live feeds anymore)
Thus song is now in the music vault so it can NEVER be destroyed..
Oh wow I knew I was closer in age to Keith than Dustin. I didn't realize Dustin was that young.
I was at home. Watching it unfold on TV.
As always love you guys and your reaction.
Thanks!
We appreciate you watching and sharing -Dustin
10 yrs old, middle of a spelling game. Confusion and a lot of sad people. But remember Alan singing this for the first time.
I was going down I 65 going to my doctors office in Louisville. I never seen traffic slow down so fast and people were yelling out windows to other people about it. I was close to U of L and when we walked in people were crying everywhere. When we looked up at a tv I just started bawling. It was the fastest dr appt I ever had. We got back to where we live which is outside of Ft Knox and just sat in front of the tv and watched CNN. When our kids got home we just held them. It bothered my husband that he couldn't do anything. Being a man who had served in the Marines he went through many emotions.
I really didn't feel that way (the way your husband did) on 9/11. Later, during the Iraq invasion, it REALLY bothered me that I was out, and unable to be there with my brothers. - Keith
I understand your reaction as a veteran. You are tuned to world events and I’m sure situational awareness. I as a Vietnam veteran knew the second the second plane hit what was happening and pretty much what the response would be. I was at my office that day and most of the workers were totally confused as they watched the events on tv. The plane that hit the Pentagon flew low right over our building and I knew it was going to hit something downtown. This was confirmed shortly when the conversation we were having with the Navy procurement office in the Pentagon suddenly
Shut down.
Yeah, I remember the tension in NOVA afterwards. - Keith
I love the reverence you both showed when this song was playing 💛
I remember my grandmother waking me up and told me we were going to war. Then, I heard that some planes took off from Boston. When they said there was a Delta plane involved, thank God that was wrong, but my cousin is a flight attendant for Delta. Needless to say my heart dropped and her husband's publishing company was in Boston. I couldn't get in touch with them or my Mother, who worked at a V.A hospital in Florida. A guy she had worked with had started at the Pentagon that Monday. He sadly was lost. My cousin and her husband weren't involved. My best friend's had been a NYPD Officer before retirement and he lost many friends and family in the Towers. I can't think of anyone who wasn't effected, either by knowing someone by even 6° of separation or personally. After 21 years I still feel every feeling as I did that day.
I was in high school too. Didn't know we're the same age
The internet was available at the time, it was just dial-up.
I had cable Internet for a couple of years before that. But, it was definitely a new thing and most hadn’t transitioned to it yet.
I remember when he performed this song live on tv just months after 9/11.. I was like 17 but everyone that can recall that horrific event knows exactly how they felt when it happened. I never cried.. I wasn’t an emotional teenager but watching those buildings collapse with people in them just broke my heart.
Thank you for your service
Thank you. - Keith
This song is in the National Archives - Library of Congress
I was stationed in ft knox. At the time I was a supply clerk and was off post getting supplies it took us 3 hrs to get back on post. It was the first day ft. Know became a closed post
To be fair the 'did you feel guilty 'cause you're a survivor?' was likely to the direct survivors, those who escaped the Towers and WC complex. They are the survivors. The rest of the nation can't be lumped in 9/11 survivors. Everything stopped that day, people are in shock, people were angry, people blamed God and anyone they could think of and I was just a child when it happened, but I look back now as an adult and it's devastating but I also say we have a good God because we have survivors. People made it out, and those towers... I thank God those towers withstood the impacts when they were not designed to withstand planes of that size considering they were bigger than the planes when the towers were built, and when they finally did collapsed they collapsed straight down. Had either tower fallen over as hijackers likely intended the death toll of that day would have been unimaginable. So many people died but so many also survived. The towers did not immediately give way nor fall horizontally which I think is a miracle in itself all things considered. Alan so wonderfully covers a lot of the emotion and reaction people had not just here in the States but all around the world.
a day ill never forget , got woke up after a night shift on base. we knew the world just changed and it was time to put feelings aside and go to work. but back in my room (even as a service meber i cried)
Great reaction.
I was getting ready for work when a news alert about the 1st tower started, then they went live and the 2nd tower got hit.
I was dropping my son off at my parents house when I heard about the Pentagon. I knew a friend worked there so I called a mutual friend who was still in the Navy to ask him to keep an ear out and then let me know. Our friend was fine, but I was worried for a while.
I was in the Navy during The Gulf War..but International politics was an interest from Jr High, so I knew the difference between Iraq and Iran.
You guys gave me a ride during the Gulf War. :D - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts rode a Gator Freighter?
I went over twice, both quick inspection trips, ship inspections. I flew over both times with some Marines. Ack I was in the air longer than on the ground or ships. 🤣 I joined the Navy to fly everywhere!
I was with the sheriff's dept and got home from my shift. I walked in the door and turned on the TV. Just as I took my gun belt off the 2nd plane hit. Seems like yesterday.
The home computer was not a regular thing. Not even cell phones were everywhere..The dinosaur net you mean, back then..hahaha
I was in my 7th grade Social Studies class and I had just pulled out my notebook and text book when my teacher Mr. Daly came in and said that a plane had just struck the North tower and he turned on the news and we watched as the second plane hit the South tower. We watched all day and we saw the towers and the Pentagon had been hit. And we cried as the towers collapsed and Pentagon as well. And that plane that went down in the field. My teacher said at the end of the day (we stayed in the same class all day) the reason he had us watch it that day was because we were living history and he wanted us to see it happen and remember where we were.
I was a Bible College and we were in my friends car I was in the front seat we were radio surfing I heard something about a tower being hit with an airplane I told him to go back and we started listening and found out about the first Tower being hit we were on our way to a hospital part of our town to pray for the town we went up and prayed for a little bit and came back down and watched the Second tower get hit in the lobby of the hospital it was more surreal for us because we prayed every week for our city on that day but instead we prayed for the whole nation
I was working my first job doing technical support for a software company... our CTO brought in a TV and someone asked what movie was on. Someone said: "That's CNN"
The first time something happens its a mistake. Second time a coincidence. Third time is enemy action, -- Old military saying.....
I've heard some variations of that one. - Keith
Living in Norfolk, Va house sitting for my brother who did his 20 in the Navy. I woke to silence. in norfolk there were airports all around his place, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and then civilian international. I lived there for six years and never turned off the closed captioning. I didn't need it for two weeks in September 2001. The silence woke me. My brother was in the gulf. I sent an email. with the subject line "Are you okay?" When he replied it was "Waiting further tasking." I was too young to worry about my Dad when he was in Vietnam. The same wasn't true of this.
Having been there, I can't imagine quiet skies over Norfolk. Last time I was there for a week, and there was the constant sound of F18s flying around the tidewater at about 2000 ft. - Keith
Alice's restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
Alan Jackson was a singer songwriter who said he didn't follow politics. He has sold over 70 million records. There was in 2001 not nearly as much online as there is now. Do your research. Not everyone is dedicated to politics or to the news.
I was fort sill in middle of a ftx when our co comes on the com and orders us back to the motor pool.
I'd only been out of the IRR for 3 years. But that's just long enough to be in the, "naw, we don't want ya" bubble. - Keith
I was in middle school the teachers were called out of the classroom and 30 mins later we were sent home my mom watched the news all day I didn't fully understand what was happening.
The survivors the song is talking about are the people who made it out of the buildings being attacked, not the people sitting safe at home.