My name's Stacy Sherwood. I am a lieutenant with the sheriff's office. I've been employed here for just over 29 years. I was working patrol up in the Oracle and Saddlebrooke areas. I was working at the time. Yes, I was listening to the morning news when I heard uh the information about the first airplane. My name is Matt Thomas and I'm the chief deputy for the sheriff's office. On 9/11/2001, I was a sergeant here for the sheriff's office and I was actually getting ready that morning to go teach at the academy after working graveyard shift. I have the news on just to see what's going on as I was drinking my coffee and getting ready to go, I watched live as the second plane hit and it was at that point that my wife kind of walked in and she's like, "What's going on?" And I was like, "We're at war." I'm Captain Honer Rankin. I am the Support Services Bureau Commander for the Pinal County Sheriff's Office. I was a patrol deputy working the Florence-Coolidge area on graveyard at the time. So, I just gotten home and was watching the news before I went to bed and saw that you know, the tower was on fire. I had actually called my roommate in and we were standing there watching the news as the second plane hit. Even though the attack happened in New York, I mean, it really did feel like all of America got attacked. My name is Lieutenant Adrian Laos. When September 11th occurred, I was a recruit in the police academy. I remember walking into the classroom and the director of the academy was standing up and he had the radio on, which was odd to us cuz you know, we we come in and it's all formal when we're having classes and stuff. But, he had the radio on and he had this stare in him and like, "Hey, you guys need to sit down. This is what's going on." And then I heard the second one um a little bit later on. So, at that point everybody knew that something was up. And so, we ran back to the office and we had a little little TV that just kind of had rabbit ears that you would kind of scroll, but we were at least able to watch what was going on. I don't really remember even responding to a call that day. Um Um I I think everybody was just totally into the news. I don't even think that we they gave us instruction that day. I think they just let us be. You can tell who was in the military, the reserves at that time, because I was a reserve. I was in the Marine Corps and I was a Marine Marine Corps reservist. And I remember everybody's phone start going off. And everybody's having a relief class. And so I remember my phone went off. And so my phone went off and I saw it was my squad leader in the Marine Corps. Okay, I'm ready like, you know, they attacked our country. I want to serve our country. This is why I joined the Marine Corps. This is why you know, I'm doing what I'm doing. Everybody uh was more alert, more on edge, more paying attention to other little things. Um things that you probably wouldn't have thought twice about before. My wife and I were debating, are we going to send our daughter to school, our oldest, or keep her home from school because we don't know what's going on. We don't know if there's going to be more attacks and what it's going to look like. Um but, you know, being a cop, I also knew, well, I have to go to work no matter what. So, I knew I was going. We didn't feel as safe as we did the day before. I didn't sleep very good um at all. Had a lot of dreams, a lot of wild dreams. Um and then when, you know, it was time for the next shift, you just you go in and see what see what's going to happen. And then I was back as a patrol sergeant on the street that night. And we figured out very quickly what effect it had and it caused almost every person in our jurisdiction, anyways, to not leave their home. There's hardly any uh traffic on the roads. There was nobody out like at the stores or anything. And uh there were no planes in the air, which was really weird. And the only thing that we would see and hear were two F-15s flying over every 30 minutes and they were making their loops. It was eerie for a while, probably for a good 6 months to a year. The patriotism was through the roof. We were united as a country. Nobody cared about what group you were part of, what race you were, what demographic you fit. Nobody cared about any of that. All they cared about is that we were Americans. Somebody had attacked us, and it was time to go take care of that problem. And it was also time for us to all stick together here. I was really proud to be doing what I was doing, and um people were very appreciative. It was a good time to be a cop. That people really liked police officers and and firemen and EMTs. I'm here to serve. I'm here to serve our community, serve our country, you know, and when I came back I felt uh a sense of pride like hey, I I went over there and I served our country, you know, and now I'm here and I'm going to serve our community, our citizens of Pinal County. And I want to make a difference in our community, and I took that with pride. I don't think we can drop our guard. I I think that we have to be vigilant and stay attentive and look out for one another. You look back at that morning and how everybody started their morning compared to how everybody ended that day. I think what Americans right now need to realize is all this petty BS is petty BS, and we're all Americans, we all love this country. September 10th was just like a normal day. Just you worry about the the little monotonous things in life, you know, just going about your daily business and being annoyed by simple little things. 9/11 happened, and it really brought things into perspective.