Lady Antebellum Remembers 9/11

 

The members of Lady Antebellum were enjoying their lives as students on September 11, 2001. Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood were in college at the University of Georgia while Hillary Scott was still in high school. When Charles woke up that morning, he had a very different day in mind.

“It was my birthday believe it or not,” Charles said. “Yeah. 9/11. So, I was in college, and yeah, it was wild. I mean, woke up, was getting ready to go to class. And I had a roommate come in and say, ‘Man, turn on the TV. Classes are canceled. You won’t believe…’ He had had an earlier class, and he comes in and says, ‘Turn on the TV.’ And we all got up and watched it. It was just wild. So, it’s hard to put into words. But I can [still] remember it and everybody can. It had such a huge effect on everybody.”
Hillary was in the hallway of her school when the news broke. Ironically, she was on her way to history class where she would watch history play out before her eyes.
“I was in 10th grade, which is weird to think that I was in 10th grade and Charles and Dave were in college,” she said. “But I was actually on my way to history class, interestingly enough, and so we got to that class and turned the TV on, and we’re just watching the footage. We ended up having an assembly that day where the whole school went into the gym and our headmaster got up and explained everything that happened. It’s one of those things that’s forever ingrained in your memory.”
Dave thinks the event, as tragic as it was, made our country stronger. “I mean as a human, it just completely breaks your heart,” he said. “And as an American, it was such a devastating tragedy. It still affects us 10 years later, and it will for the rest of our lives. There’s no doubt that it will. But I think as people and as a country, we’re stronger for it and [we're] going to keep pushing forward. And our goal is to get rid of people that would do evil like that in the world. So it’s tough to have that happen to us but we’ll always remember those that were lost.”


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