Was in 4th grade and was actually staying with my grandmother that day. My thumb was swollen from a bee sting at recess the day before and I couldn't write. I was in the car with my mom taking my sister to school when they announced it over the radio what had happened.

I later learned that people in the Williams Tower (now BOK tower) in downtown Tulsa were communicating with people in the Trade Centers during the attacks. The BOK tower is the "little sister" to the World Trade Center towers. It's kind of a special connection Tulsa has to the event and NYC. When you add in the OKC bombing connection it makes Oklahoma seem not so far away from New York.