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Friday was an emotional day for many New Yorkers as they remembered the thousands of people who lost their lives at the World Trade Center on September 11th.

When the sun set Friday evening, two beams of white light called the "Tribute In Light" filled the hole in the skyline left by the collapse of the Twin Towers. The bright memorial brought many people out, who said they wanted to capture the moment and at the same time honor the victims of September 11th.

Julia Brucato said she wasn't expecting to be brought to tears on her first trip to Lower Manhattan since the terrorist attacks eight years ago, but it happened.

"It brings you back. This is the first time I've been here since it happened. It brings you back," she said.

Brucato said it was time for her to pay her respects in person, as she still struggles to make sense of what happened.

"Everything happens for a reason but who knows what the reason is, but a lot of people died down here helping and that's not right. A lot of people got sick down here helping," said Brucato. "I think it brought a lot of people closer and it made a lot of people stop and think what to do with their life."

"There's a lot of emotions, everything from absolute joy to absolute devastation to bewilderment," said another viewer. "Everything in the ultraviolet spectrum of emotions, you can find a reason to feel it. This is just paramount to anything else you can feel."

For Blake Altshuler, the trip to see the tribute was very personal. Eight years ago, he narrowly escaped the second tower just before it collapsed. Friday night was his first time back to the scene of the tragedy that changed his life.

"I don't know if I am paying my respects or just seeing what's going on. I think part of me wants to know that people are still thinking about it and people are still remembering," said Altshuler.

A group of New York University students who were in fifth grade when the terrorism attacks happened also came to see the lights, as they said they still remembered the day like it was yesterday.

They believed the lights are a symbol to the city: the hope that the victims are in a better place.

"I think it represents the soul if everyone who lost their lives on that day, basically just going up into heaven," said one student.