I remember I was in AP History class and another teacher came into the room and whispered something to my teacher and left. Then maybe 20 minutes later the same teacher was back again. This time we were told that students were being sent to the gym. They had all these TV's set up and no one really had any idea what was going on. We all found out together.
I was lucky. I grew up right outside of NYC but I didn't have any connection to it. My parents both worked in Jersey. None of my extended family still worked or lived in the city either. Kids around me were fired up and talking about war and things like that. I remember thinking about how I was going to be 18 soon and had heard a lot of stories from my dad about how his older brother worried every day about the draft during Vietnam. Nothing like 9/11 had ever really happened before and I didn't know what it meant for me.
Last edited by packs; 09-11-2018 at 05:29 PM.
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