SEATTLE -- For Mariners outfielder James Jones, the memory of Sept. 11, 2001, hits close to home as he was a seventh grader in middle school in Brooklyn when the planes hit the World Trade Center in Manhattan in 2001.
"My teacher left the room and came back in crying and we didn't know what was going on," Jones said Friday, reflecting back on the day that shook all Americans. "Slowly but surely, everybody's parents started coming to pick up their kids and I wasn't too sure what had happened til we saw the news. It's weird it's been 14 years.