 When I first saw the images on the television set, I was like, wow, I didn't think it was the United States, first of all. I thought it was in other countries' buildings, but I saw the skyline in New York, and I'm like, wow, that's New York. I come home, and my parents are upset, and my neighbors are crying, and everybody's literally running to the bus stop to get their kids. And all these people that are just day-to-day people are all coming together because of this one event. And it's like we all broke down at the same time. The first thing I remember thinking was, when I was a child, I went to school in the city, of course, in Manhattan, and we would always take field trips to the World Trade Center. And I remember looking at my watch to see what time it was because I was thinking, like, if any of the elementary school kids had made it on their field trip yet. That's just how much chaos was going on over there. You could hear the sirens across the bay. You could smell, you could see the smoke and all the debris and the ashes of the building that were falling down. You could see it all go up. Seaman Michael Camden, I'm 19 years old from Middletean, Virginia. I work with DECK Department on the USS Nimitz, and I've been in the Navy since September of 2010. I'm Freddie Avila, LS-1, work with HSD, and I've been in the Navy for 18 years. I'm AVE 3, Louisa Greggs Warren. I'm from New York City, I'm 26 years old, and I've been in the Navy for four years. I'm MM3 Jonathan Barker. I am a nuclear machineist mate. I work in the Reacting Department on the USS Nimitz. I was in middle school in sixth grade, and we actually lived right across the way from the World Trade Centers. So we had like a full panoramic view of everything that happened. Like I kept going through my mind, at least there's still standing. At least the people in there, if there's anybody in there to see, at least it's still standing. And then when the second one fell down, I didn't know what to do. It was like finding out that Santa Claus is unreal, you know? It's like, I don't know. There goes all my ideas. But when that happened, it was like a sense of everybody becoming humble over the entire city. You know, people band together, they stop mass transportation. So you had to walk distances that we hadn't, and everybody's kind of like binding together. But after the shock, there was a lot of anger. First it was, how could you, you know? And then it was more like, this is not happening again. And that's when I decided that I was going to join the military. I figured people, when in dire need, people, humans will come together. And that's definitely what happened. I was, you know, I was proud to see American flags everywhere, because those bad boys popped up everywhere after that. That was great to see, and I was glad. Being that I wasn't there, that I heard other U.S. Navy ships were helping out. A lot of sailors, and not just that, the first responders are out there. Everybody teamed up to help out people who are not working, people who are not used to that type of job or situation. Out there helping out everybody. A hero is someone who steps to the plate in a time of adversity, or a time where they know that if they get involved with a specific situation, that harm can come to them. But they still do what's right, and not allow fear to paralyze them. I mean, I feel the honor, courage, commitment every time I put on this uniform. I feel, but I feel better putting on this uniform, actually. Because I feel like I'm actually doing something, being a part of something bigger. The kids of future generations, I hope, can grow up in a world where they know they have their parents and their older siblings and their military members and their teachers. Not just military members, but their teachers and their guidance counselors and those others to look up to. There's everyday heroes. There's not just us in uniform. But for those kids, I want them to see that, hey, this happened, but everybody came back. We weren't stopped by this.