Health & Fitness

Remembering Where I Was on 9/11

I was in a study hall period in high school when the principal came over the loudspeaker to inform the school that a plane had flown into one of the towers (later identified as the North Tower).

A student from the class was going back and forth from the library — which had a television — relaying details as they emerged and even sketching diagrams on the blackboard of the scenes being broadcast.

There was no more traditional learning that day. Classes were spent openly expressing our fears, our confusion and our thoughts about why and how this could happen.


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