9/11: Where Were You?

Ten years after the World Trade Center attacks we are asking the community, "Where were you on 9/11?"

Division Chief Rick Mayhew recalled getting ready for his father's funeral that morning and what he felt when he first saw the footage of planes crashing into the Twin Towers.

San Marino Police Chief John Schaefer shared that he never could have guessed the effects 9/11 would have 10 years later.

San Marino Patch Editor Jessica Hamlin remembers being a freshman in college and being overcome by the situation's surreality. 

Now we hear San Marino Mayor Allan Yung's story:

"I can’t remember offhand what I was doing. I remember looking at the TV in disbelief. It’s like something—a catastrophe—that you never thought of happening. To this day I can’t believe it happened but you know when we go back to look at the pictures.

I visited the [Ground Zero] area and saw the big hole. I didn’t know what I was thinking. I said, “My god, what does life bring you? What catastrophe can happen in a second.”

I don’t know what kind of hatred people have … to make them do this; to bring this on other people.

We saw the dust and the buildings collapsing on TV. It can happen here. I was thinking it could happen in Los Angeles."