It started off as any other routine day for Teresa Amorim.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Amorim was plying her trade as a factory worker at Blue Ridge Sportswear in Palmerton when all of a sudden the unimaginable happened.

“It was around 9:30 (a.m.) and we were working and listening to nice music, and all of a sudden, everything stopped and we hear these noise, three hits,” Amorim said. “Everybody was like, ‘oh my God, what happened,’ everybody was in shock.”

A few months later, the factory received a contract from TAMA Manufacturing to produce over 20,000 specialty flags to help meet the demand that had snowballed since the dreadful attack on our nation’s soil.

“A couple of months later, we got all these orders to make flags,” she said. “We made like 20,000 a week, and we did it for a while.”

As she reflects back on that time in her life, Amorim said she was proud to play a role in the production of the flags.

“We were all excited making all these flags to let people know we care about it,” she said. “It means a lot to me because our country got attacked, and a lot of people lost their life.”

Amorim said she hasn’t forgotten about the horrific events that unfolded on that fateful day.

“I think about it very often, and I just hope to God that we don’t get attacked again,” she said. “That’s my concern.”