By Charles E. Ramirez, MediaNews Group

Alana Hart remembers she was driving to work at the Home Depot store in Rochester when she first heard America had been attacked on Sept. 11, 2001.

She got there and found her co-workers were just as stunned as she was.

“There was a different feel,” the 47-year-old from Lake Orion recalled. “What was happening? How do we work? How do we finish the day? We didn’t know what to do.”

Hart, a Team Depot district captain, was one of more than 100 volunteers with The Home Depot Foundation who gathered Thursday to honor those lost in the terrorist attacks on the United States 24 years ago.

She said since then, she has been to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania.

“We can’t forget,” Hart said. “W

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