On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was running late for class. Just as I was entering I-35, I heard about the first plane striking the World Trade Center on Z95.7 FM. I said nothing in my first class. I cried inside the entire time. We had our break between lecture and laboratory. After lab, I heard that the Pentagon had also been attacked and both towers were gone. Later I went to do some off-campus deliveries. With rumors about the closure of the U.S. borders, everyone was making a run to the fuel stations. My co-worker and I stopped at Fuddruckers on Metcalf. Back on campus, I saw the collapse of World Trade Center Seven on the air. I worked later until that night to shut down the CNN broadcast in one of the theaters on campus.
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“WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It took 19 men to hijack four airliners and crash them in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.”
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At my church, during church service, there is usually a children's message. On Sunday, we still had a children's message but 9/11 was the topic. It was weird because none of the children were older than 5 or 6 years old. 9/11 meant nothing to them. And if it did, it didn't mean anything more than the assasination of J.F.K. (the proverbial loss of innocence to people of my mom's generation) or the attack on Pearl Harbor (proverbial loss of innocence to my grandma's generation).
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Interesting, thank you, David.
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