TOMAHAWK - Eleven years after terrorist attacks killed thousands, people in the Northwoods are still remembering 9-11 at today's ceremony in Tomahawk.

"I thought at first that they were kidding, that this couldn't happen," said Tomahawk's Glenn Christianson.

No matter where you were or what you were doing, Americans remember the moment they heard about and saw the pictures of the 9-11 attacks.

"I saw a building on fire. My husband was in the bathroom shaving, and I said, Fred, come and look!" said Kay Johnson.

Some have lived through more than one world tragedy.

"To watch the towers fall, to me, it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki - at a smaller scale, but this was just horrible," said Johnson.

In Tomahawk, it's especially important for residents to remember, and commemorate, 9-11.

Christianson worked at the Harley plant here.

"One of the engineers, who worked and still does work at Harley-Davidson, his sister was killed in the Pentagon, so that particular part of it makes this a special day. Not in a good way, but a day to remember," he said.

Songs from schoolchildren and a dove release were part of that remembrance.

"It's important because so many people died, and it was no fault of their own. It was a deliberate attack," Johnson said.

An attack that, however painful to remember, these people say needs to be passed down to future generations.

"It was history in the making. The worst kind of history, but it was still - going to be part of our history for the rest of the world," said Johnson.

Story By: Ben Meyer