Alan Jackson Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning

One of the most poignant songs ever written about 9, 11. The song really touches me because 9, 11, 2001 was my 25th wedding anniversary and we were on a Caribbean cruise. Sort of spoiled the anniversary, since the magnitude of the tragedy far outweighed our personal celebration. Speaking of stopping, the entire cruise sort of came to a crashing halt; all of the typical frivolous cruise activities just didn t happen for the rest of the cruise because no one was in the mood anymore. All the people on the cruise just sort of huddled together to commiserate as we watched the images together on CNN. To see total strangers hugging each other and crying with each other was emblematic of just how united these United States are. Now, for a while I had disabled comments being posted about this video since there was so much negative garbage. But I eventually reenabled them. Let s see if we can play nice. If you hate the US, keep it to yourself, we don t care to hear it. If you want to blast the US, go someplace else a