“I remember I was just waking up, I was at home, and I got a message from my student assistant at the time named Kate. I had just got up getting coffee, and I got the text from Kate, and she said ‘have you seen what is on TV?’ … Thinking about it [now] is emotional. The shock of what was happening at the time.”
“Honestly, I don’t remember anything about the day on campus. I think the day was just kind of a blank, I have no memory of what was happening on campus at all. Everyone was stuck looking at the news, watching what was going on. That was it; it was a shock at the time I think everything was just wound up in that one moment. Everyone’s focus was on New York.”
“It was very odd, which is interesting; there are certain moments, and you have that memory of exactly where you were. The fall of the Berlin wall was one of those, I remember where I was for that too. Those big world events I think sometimes you get this emotional imprint in your brain, and it sticks with you.”
– Brian Trimble, Interim Director of UAM at CSULB
In 2001, he was working for the College of Education at CSULB.