Remembering the emotion after 9/11

It is often difficult to go back and capture feelings from the past. Even the happiest occasions or the most tragic events in our lives have their poignant edges sanded and softened by time, and the feelings become a shadow of the original.

But then there is music. Music always has a way of putting me back in the moment, and this video is a perfect example. This is the original performance of "Where were You," performed by Alan Jackson at the CMA Awards, three weeks after 9/11. He later recorded it in a studio, but the studio recording lacks much of the emotion of this one. When I watch it today, I am transported back to that night when a grieving country sat mesmerized as the simple, but powerful, words he sang helped unify us in spirit.

"Faith Hope and Love are some good things He gave us...and the greatest is Love."