It's been six years since the September 11th terrorist attacks that took thousands of lives.

On Tuesday many people around the country, including here in Idaho, will take some time to remember and honor those who were killed.

They play over and over, images of burning buildings, people covered in dirt and ash, running from falling debris, images like this make it hard for people to escape that day. But for one Emmett family they're taking what happened in New York and Virginia and they're doing something here to thank our local heroes.

"We live in Idaho but that was really scary here," recalls Brandy Meyers about the September 11th attacks.

Six years ago Meyers decided images of falling buildings and grief stricken faces weren't going to be the only way her three sons remember that day.

"This year I started explaining to them and trying to show them and teach them what September 11th is all about and why we do what we do," Meyers told CBS 2 Eyewitness News.

Every year since the first anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, Jakob, Joshua, and Jayven take something special to local firefighter around the Treasure Valley.

"Do we get to seal them up?" asked one of the boys.

This year, it's chocolate chip cookies made by mom, with the finishing touches kid approved. But it's not the cookies, or the mini American Flags that mean the most to this family who makes them, it's the message nine-year-old Jakob and his brothers are learning.

"So we can thank them," Jakob said when asked why his family takes cookies to local firefighters.

"If something like that was to happen here they're going to be the ones that have to go into a burning building and risk their lives for us," said Meyers.

And making cookies, putting plates together for local fire departments is exactly how she wants her three sons to remember that day, every year.

"I'm hoping when they get older they're going to take their kids to go do it. I don't care if it's thirty, forty, fifty years down the line."

Meyers and her sons have picked three different fire stations to visit on Tuesday. They say in the past some of the firefighters have been a little surprised by their actions, but they're always appreciative.