MOSES LAKE - On Thursday, residents throughout the Columbia Basin remembered the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The memory of planes crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and a field in Pennsylvania, will never quite be erased from the consciousness of Americans.

"Someone came over to my house and told me to turn on the news, but I did not believe them. Even after I watched those horrifying images myself, I still did not fully believe what I was seeing," Harden Clair, of Moses Lake, said.

Despite being more than 2,500 hundred miles away from the attacks, residents throughout the Basin were deeply affected by what happened that day.

"I had just started my job at the city when someone told me what happened, so I went into the break room at work and watched the news. I was just filled with tears and emotions, I did not even know anybody who was affected by it, but it still brought tears to my eyes," Kay Woodworth, of Moses Lake, said.

The memory of the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives will always live in the Basin. The Moses Lake 9/11 Twin Towers Memorial stands as a solemn reminder of that fateful day and those who lost their lives.

"That day hit home, because of just that; it happened at home," Don Richmond, of Moses Lake, said.

Despite the passing of 13 years since 9/11, on Thursday, a bouquet of flowers was left at the memorial. The American flag was flown at halfstaff.

"I remember watching the second plane hit the Twin Tower live on television. It was just so sad, a scary day for all involved," Virginia Kennedy-Noack, of Moses Lake, said.

The bouquet of flowers left at the 9/11 memorial pays tribute to those who lost their lives, and serves as reminder their memory will not be forgotten anytime soon in the Columbia Basin.