09/11/2026
🇺🇸 September 11, 2001 — Where were you?
It’s one of those days where so many of us can still remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first realized something was terribly wrong.
That year, I was milking cows on a farm.
I was in a double-40 parlor with two other people, milking with the radio playing in the background. Between the milking machines, the cattle and all the normal noise of the parlor, we were only catching bits and pieces of what was being said.
We kept looking at each other like, “What is going on?”
We knew something was happening, but none of us really understood the magnitude of it.
Then a plane flew over.
It was incredibly low. Low enough that it shook the building and caught our attention over everything else going on in that parlor.
We wondered why in the world a plane was flying that low.
It wasn't until later, when I got home and could actually watch the news, that everything began to sink in. The towers. The Pentagon. The planes. And then learning about Flight 93 crashing in Pennsylvania after we had seen a plane pass overhead so unusually low.
Suddenly there were so many questions.
What was happening?
What did this mean for our country?
And that unsettling thought of just how close tragedy can come to ordinary people going about an ordinary morning.
Twenty-five years later, I still remember that milking parlor. The noise. The radio. The confused looks between us. And that plane overhead.
So today, we remember the 2,977 people who were killed, the first responders who ran toward danger, the families whose lives changed forever, and all those whose lives were affected in the years that followed.
And we remember how, for a little while afterward, Americans seemed to hold each other a little closer.
Where were you on September 11, 2001?
Do you remember what you were doing when you first heard?
We'd love for you to share your story below. 🇺🇸
Never forget. 9•11•2001
— Bauman’s Fiber Farm
