Osama Bin Laden Dead, America Reacts

As Avon residents were getting ready for bed Sunday night, as children slept away the final hours of spring break before school started again, word started getting out.

President Barack Obama was making some kind of announcement around 10:30. It had to be something big, for it to be coming well after east coast prime-time on a Sunday night.

And then we waited. And waited. As the newscasters speculated, correctly, that the announcement was that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, we still waited. We had to hear it. Almost 10 years after he unleashed violence and terror on America, we had to know for sure that he had, finally, been stopped.

And then came the celebrations, spontaneous outpourings of emotions at Ground Zero, outside the White House, at the Mets-Phillies baseball game.

We're still digesting the details, learning about how this swift end was more than eight months in the making, how the raid happened. And we're trying to figure out what it means for the future of al-Qaida, relations with Pakistan and the rest of the Middle East, and the military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Share what you're feeling today. Do you have a personal connection to 9/11, or a loved one serving in the military? What do you think will happen now?