I know that everyone has something to say about this today, but nobody reads my blog so I can say what I want.
This morning I was working on my Visual Image Analysis Paper that I had put off till last night. I had chosen a picture of the World Trade Center between jet attacks. Its a really moving picture. Don't believe me? I'll show you.
While writing my paper I got the chance to reflect on my own experience of this day 11 years ago...
The news was on as I was getting ready for school that day, I saw the story but didn't think anything of it. Kinda just thought it had been an accident. By the time I got to school, the second plane had crashed. We watched the news throughout the day in some of our classes. Some of my teachers didn't want us to see it, that or the principal. But other teachers decided that we needed to watch it. I'm glad they did. Being only 12 years old at that time, I didn't really understand what was going on. My teachers who had the news on in their classrooms were able to explain some of what was happening, but not why. There were other students in the school who had family in the World Trade Center and around it that day, those kids went home. I don't remember more from that day or what I learned about the attacks after that day.
I have added the September 11th Memorial onto my Bucket List.
What do you remember of that day?
Check out my blog. I posted my memories. I have a friend who taught 5th grade then (about the age you were), and he said the kids just kept asking him, "Why do they hate us so much?" Thanks for sharing, Liz! Sharmi
ReplyDeleteI did read your post. We were talking about it in my history class today. Everyone in there was in fourth grade in 2001, I didn't think I was that much older than my classmates.
Delete