Remembering Sept. 11, 2001 Twelve Years On

Twelve years ago Wednesday, the nation and the world stood still in the face of a shocking and unexpected tragedy — the terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade Center towers, resulted in two more planes crashing into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania and the death of almost 3,000 citizens.


The minutes and hours of Sept. 11, 2001 are indelibly etched in many of our memories, young and old, and as we stop to reflect on the years that have passed since that world-altering event, the day itself seems a good place to start.
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I myself 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.

Where were you on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001? How have your views and your world changed since?